Quick feet with reaction
Category: Balance
Level: 1
15-30 seconds
- Quick feet
- Chest up
- Soft bend at hips and knees
- Knees stacked over ankle
- Toes, knees and hips facing forward relative to trunk position
- Absorb landing from ball of the foot to heel
- React quickly to cue from coach or partner; reach down and touch the marker on the ground before returning to the start position
- Slow reaction
- Cue "Quick feet"
- Turning the lead foot outwards
- Cue "Toes face straight ahead"
- Feet hitting together
- Cue "Keep feet apart"
- Staying up on the toes with each step
- Cue "Soft, quiet landing"
- Cue "Sit back into the hips"
- Increases reactivity to an external stimulus
- Increases heart and breathing rates
- Movement in the frontal plane (sideways)
- Incorporates a change of direction movement
- Develops knee control