1. Transferring Weight
By Danny Clark

2. What is Transferring Weight?
It is to travel by walking, running, leaping, rolling, stepping, springing, sliding and by transferring weight on hands, on feet, and on any body part.
Most common is foot to foot, which is walking.

3. The National Standard for PE
We use Standard 1 movement which demonstrates competency is motor skills and movement patters needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
What I will look at for your kids is how well they develop a sequence demonstrating smooth sequences so its flows together after I teach your kids the skills.
These activities will help lead your children to become aware in situation of how to transfer their weight correctly

4. Why your kid needs to learn this.
Transferring weight is used in every sport and in everyday life.
If your child wants to play a sport or just live a normal lifestyle then they will need to grasp the concept of how to transfer their weight correctly.

5. Progression Pre-Control (Beginning Stage)
Transfer weight to different body parts
On and off equipment
Control
Transfer weight to specific body parts as they travel or balance.
Traveling over low objects, cartwheels

6. Transferring Weight is Everywhere!!

7. This is what I am going to teach.
Locomotor movement. (hop, skip, gallop, jump, etc)
Start off by just transferring onto and off equipment
Then going onto your hands just momentarily
Challenge you the parents when your with your child to see how well they are doing.

8. Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4BqeELsIi8 20 sec
30 sec

9. References
Graham, George. Children Moving. 8th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
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