In P.E this term, Year 5 we have been incorporating both counter balance and tension balances into our Gymnastic routines. With our P.E partner, we built upon and practiced our routine each week using different apparatus.  To add complexity to our balances, we rehearsed different ways to move out of a counter balance to a counter tension balance on both high and low level apparatus.  Using both canon moves (where we transitioned from one move to another individually from our partner) and unison moves (where we transitioned at the same time as our partner), we created routines which incorporated a range of balances.

Counter balances incorporate a pushing force

Counter tension incorporate a pushing force

 

Here are a few of our complex routines in pictures