OzZee
Proud Parent
Just reading this thread http://www.chalkbucket.com/forums/w...tics-wag/41217-new-parent-forum-question.html
Something I've noticed often is people talking of 4/5/6 year olds doing back handsprings etc.
So in that thread the OP's dd has been doing a beginner class for 6 months and is 6. She is working/has back handspring, front handspring, handstand and cartwheel on beam etc.
You just don't see these skills being worked with either beginners or with young kids. Until 5 they are in kindergym. Which is just that (with a few exceptions) kindergym, a fun class for toddlers/young children. More about movement than skills.
I just can't imagine 6 months into a beginner class (which in Australia would be 1 hour once a week) working on back handsprings? The girls in our beginner classes work on a bit of conditioning and stretching, forward and backward roll, handstands, cartwheels, walking forwards and backwards on the beam, maybe chin ups on bars, casts, forward roll to tuck on bar.
Even in the pre-idp (international stream) kindergym class I saw they were working more on strength and perfecting the basic skills, certainly no handsprings for the 4/5 year olds in that class.
So is it usual to be teaching young and/or beginner kids handsprings etc? Is that why I'm always surprised by all these 5/6/7 year olds with an array of skills (and also why on youtube you see kids competing with really poor form on these skills?)
Something I've noticed often is people talking of 4/5/6 year olds doing back handsprings etc.
So in that thread the OP's dd has been doing a beginner class for 6 months and is 6. She is working/has back handspring, front handspring, handstand and cartwheel on beam etc.
You just don't see these skills being worked with either beginners or with young kids. Until 5 they are in kindergym. Which is just that (with a few exceptions) kindergym, a fun class for toddlers/young children. More about movement than skills.
I just can't imagine 6 months into a beginner class (which in Australia would be 1 hour once a week) working on back handsprings? The girls in our beginner classes work on a bit of conditioning and stretching, forward and backward roll, handstands, cartwheels, walking forwards and backwards on the beam, maybe chin ups on bars, casts, forward roll to tuck on bar.
Even in the pre-idp (international stream) kindergym class I saw they were working more on strength and perfecting the basic skills, certainly no handsprings for the 4/5 year olds in that class.
So is it usual to be teaching young and/or beginner kids handsprings etc? Is that why I'm always surprised by all these 5/6/7 year olds with an array of skills (and also why on youtube you see kids competing with really poor form on these skills?)