Planes

Question 1

Sagittal plane

Answer 1

Divides the body from top to bottom, resulting in a left and a right side causing flexion and extension - front somersault (frontflip)

Question 2

Frontal plane

Answer 2

Divides the body from top to bottom, but front and back sections causing adduction and abduction - cartwheel

Question 3

Transverse plane

Answer 3

Divides the body across the middle (horizontally) giving a top sectiom (superior) and a bottom section (inferior) causing rotation - trampoline twist

Question 4

What are the characteristics of a front and back piked somersault?

Answer 4

• face forward, with arms held upwards
• lean forward, lift seat and tuck in tightly, holding the position with hands on shins as you jump
• raise legs, extend them and stretch out body
• raise arms to slow down the rotation and land

Question 5

What is a somersault?

Answer 5

Front and back somersaults are whole body movements in a saggital plane, around the frontal axis. For example, a gymnast competing on a trampoline.

Question 6

What is a cartwheel?

Answer 6

A cartwheel is the frontal plane around the saggital axis

Question 7

What are the characteristics of a cartwheel?

Answer 7

• you move sideways, from left to right or right to left in the frontal plane
• your body rotates around a line that runs from the front to the back of your body around the saggital axis.
• she swings her chest and arms down
• she moves into a straddled handstand
• she puts down a landing leg, and lifts her arms and chest sideways and upwards
• she returns to a standing position, with her hands and feet in a straight line

Question 8

What is a twist jump?

Answer 8

When a trampolinist or athelte does a twist, they travel in a transverse (horizontal) plane around the vertical axis

• the key movement is not up or down, or from side to side, but around one spot - in the transverse plane
• they twist around an invisible line that runs from head to toe - around the vertical axis

Question 9

What are the characteristics of a twist jump?

Answer 9

In a full twist jump, the performer starts facing one end of the trampoline and spins either to the right or to the left and completes a full 360 degree spin in a straight position. They finish facing the same direction that they started in and still in a vertical position