Aerial Curriculum and Teaching Resources
Green Dragonfly Videos
Beginners
Method:
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1. Assign each student a progression sheet & encourage them to journal their skills.
2. Start students on Fundamentals to insure students begin their journey with proper shoulder placement.
3. Introduce Basic first and then Russian Climbs- from "Lifted hang".
4. Place students on the "Knot" to learn leveraging & counterbalance.
3.Teach individual skills & then have students link them together in their groupings.
3. Teach transitions through the game, "Add On".
(One Student Performs a Skill & Then the Next Repeats the Skill & Adds a New One...)
4. Have them create their own sequences.
Fundamentals & Conditioning
Gentle stretch to begin and end training. From a hanging position rotate in a circular motion.
Strength Building Rocking Tucks
Inverted Pull-Up- Retain hollowness in center. Bend elbows, do not release bottom.
Straddle Inversions
Conditioning Drills for Hipkey
Basquel/Piston/Crochet Drill focusing on proper foot placement.
Basquel/Piston/Knee Hook Drill
Fun game to practice entries and exits into inversions.
Climbs
Teach this climb first as it preps descent for most other climbs as well as preps for foot locks.
Practical and efficient climb. Sometimes referred to as French.
Good first climb to teach
Sassy Modified Russian Climb
Rolling climb which teaches leveraging
Many Knot and Hammock Skills can be interchanged, some may not. Go to the Mixed Apparatus tab above and click on "Hammock" for more Green level Fabric Skills!
Knot Skills
Great Skill for working X chest pull over
Mini drop.
Single Foot Lock Skills
Dynamic roll into Cocoon
Double Foot Lock Skills
Locking both Feet Evenly
Balance Skill for Spacial & Body Awareness
Balance the frees the hands for cross back preps
Resting move with rotating prep for straddleback.
Beginning Split Balances
Double Foot Lock Resting Pose
Simple but Intricate Wrap
Rear Entry Foot Lock
3 Different Entries into Cross Back Straddle
Hip Key/ Hip Lock Skills
4 Skill Series with a dynamic spin
Spinning addition to secretary sequence
Looping Transition from Secretary and into Kneelock and back again
Looping Transition from Secretary and into Kneelock and back again
Floating Skills
Progressed Beginner Hang
This skill can be done as a progression to "Hip Catch" and can also be done from an unlocked Straddleback. The term Butterfly, in our curriculum, simply means to hold the tails while rolling up from a straddled or piked inversion.
Fundamental Open Center Inversion Wrap with Descent
Cross Center Inversion Wrap
Beginning Knee Hang
Creative way to enter prep for straddleback
Drops
L6 should begin with a Salto Pass through. This video shows the progressions of learning Dives and Saltos.
Inverted Hang that can be "dropped" through pike.
Inversion that can be "thrown" as a "drop" or stacked with Knee Drop.
Two Tailed Knee Drop to Tick tock.
Horizontal slack drop from Ramone
Rotation Drop from Catchers Wrap
Salto from Ramone