- [Narrator] This module is sponsored
by the Wells Fargo Foundation.
(calm cheerful music)
- [Miss Penny] Wow, look at this!
- [Miss Beth] Welcome!
Welcome to Miami Gymnastics and Dance Academy!
I'm Miss Beth!
- Hi, we're here to find out about gymnastics!
- Well you're in the perfect place.
We are going to start by a stretch.
'Kay, we're going to get in a big circle.
Make a circle, criss cross applesauce.
There we go.
Now everybody put their feet together,
and this is called a butterfly.
'Kay, everybody flap your legs!
Flap your legs and I want everybody to be really happy
when they do this.
It's a lot of fun, it feels good!
Who can touch their nose to their toes?
Beautiful.
Nice job.
Okay, now we're going to do a straddle!
Can everybody put their legs really big?
Straddle and let's do sun up.
Sun down.
And who can do a pancake, flat in the middle?
Everybody try to go all the way down.
- It feels good to stretch.
- Our muscles feel very good right?
Feels very good, doesn't it?
Let's stand up, let's shake it out.
How does everybody feel, good?
You ready to get started?
- Yeah!
- Okay the first thing we're going to is the tumble track!
We're ready?
(playful music)
Miss Penny, this is called a tumble track.
The first thing we're going to do are pencil jumps.
We're gonna get our arms tight by our ears,
and keep a nice tight body,
and jump down the tumble track.
Kay? Go ahead.
(happy jumping music)
Now we're gonna do straddle jumps.
You're gonna put your hands on your hips,
everybody put your hands on your hips!
And you're gonna open and close your legs, all the way down.
Go ahead, Alani.
Big jump!
Wow, that is beautiful.
(happy jumping music)
This is gonna be your last turn,
and I'm going to allow you to do your favorite skill, okay?
Alani is gonna start with her back handsprings.
Go ahead, Alani, go ahead.
Just do three in a row.
(exclaims joyfully)
(children laughing)
- Yay!
Who had a great time over at the pit?
Now we're gonna walk on the balance beam.
Can everybody say balance beam?
- Balance beam!
- Now we're gonna walk on the balance beam, okay?
First thing we're gonna do is a kitty cat walk.
Whoa!
Can you say "meow"?
- Meow!
- Now we're gonna act like bunnies and do bunny hops.
Put your hands on your hips.
And, bunny hop.
Beautiful!
- You look like a little bunny!
Look at you, you're doing great!
Look at that, the balance.
Nice control.
- Now we're gonna march like we're in the band.
Hands on our hips, bring your knees up, and march.
Go ahead, march and look at the end
of the beam when you march.
March, march, good job.
(dramatic marching music)
And jump.
Now we are at the bars.
Can everybody grab the bar?
And what we're gonna do is
we're gonna jump up to a front support.
Very nice, Miss Penny.
Down.
And now we're gonna jump up and roll off the bar.
Who can roll over?
(children exclaiming)
(clapping)
Beautiful!
Try it again!
- It takes a lot to learn the bars.
I know in the Olympics, we see the girls doing uneven bars,
and the boys doing parallel bars.
- And then as they progress,
they get to go on their equipment.
- Did we need the coach for the boys?
- Absolutely, Coach Shane!
This is Coach Shane.
Everybody, can you say hi to Coach Shane?
- [Children] Hi Coach Shane!
- Coach Shane is gonna take Alex and Jagger
over to the pommel horse and the parallel bars.
- See, Jagger's holding pike right now,
which is basic in gymnastics.
You can use it on many different apparatuses,
and it takes a lot of upper body strength
and stomach strength for him to hold himself up,
and it takes a lot of work.
If I let go, he'll just drop
because it takes a lot of strength to hold himself up.
- So he has to be persistent
and try again and again in order to master the technique.
- Yes because he needs to have the endurance
to be able to hold himself up and support himself
so he doesn't get hurt or mess up.
- Let's see you do it again!
Wow!
- Very good.
- You have been persistent, good for you!
- Alex is doing a pike just like Jack,
and as you can see,
you can also use the pike on the pommel horse
and on the parallel bars, and other aspects of gymnastics
such as floor.
- Wow, look at you!
You're using a lot of arm strength,
a lot of muscle strength.
Thank you, Shane.
You're doing a really great job with these boys!
- Oh, you're welcome.
- I'm going to go see what the girls are doing.
- Alright.
- Are you ready girls?
- Yes.
- We're excited!
- Vitka, an olympian who competed in Beijing,
will teach us some rhythmatic gymnastics.
These exercises take persistence too!
- Okay, let's stand up.
And we're gonna do it in a circle.
Hands forward, and roll the ball.
Hug him, I love you, say I love you!
And go back, too!
Good job, girls.
Now, hold the ball, and start rolling the ball.
1, 2, 3, 4.
1, 2, 3 and 4.
Now let's do throw.
How we doing the throw?
We hold the ball, now we throw it,
two hands go up, bounce, and catch.
(laughing)
And we're gonna take the hula hoops.
Let's put the hoop on the floor,
left hand on the side,
and 1, 2, 3, 4,
and run in a circle.
Yes, now jump inside the hoop, jump.
Let's put the hoops back now.
And, we're going to move now to the ribbon.
We're going to do now little circles, okay?
Little circle,
1, 2, 3, 4.
Now we're going to do big circles.
1, 2, 3,
like we're flying.
Let's come closer, let's come closer.
And we're going to go back and we're gonna do snakes, okay?
Ready, and go.
1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4.
- Thank you very much Miss Beth for showing us
Miami Gymnastics and Dance Academy.
We had a great time.
- Well they were all such wonderful students.
I very much enjoyed you all
and I hope you come back very soon.
- We will.
Thank you, bye!
- Bye!
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