It was so cool to watch them all get tuck jumps with one tweak in teaching! In order to move your toes up, you’ve got to tuck your knees up to your chest. Do you guys see it? Ok, we’ve got to JUMP AND GET OUR TOES OUT OF THE WAY so the snake doesn’t touch us.” “We’re going to pretend to see a snake coming, slithering toward us. In the next class, here’s the story I told: Lightbulb moment! Teaching tuck jumps is all about feet, not knees, like I had taught before. if I was getting my feet out of the way from something gross coming. The only way I would move that fast and get my knees up is. Then, I thought about what scenario in life would I need to get my knees up super fast like that? And. I stopped to think about the tuck jump movement, how fast it was and all of the skills it required. I was thinking about tuck jumps and got real with myself that I had to change the way I was teaching this skill. “Let me spot you and hold you up so you can bend your knees up and down to get the feeling” “Jump and touch your knees to your hands!” “Knees up to that character on your shirt” What do we see the most? Tiny little jumps with maybe a bent leg, or if they get their knees up to their chest, they land in a yucky squat/crash that is terrible for their little knees.įor years, I did the same teaching cues and style for tucks jumps: Most of their little bodies aren’t built to have big ‘ups’ just yet. They have to have a powerful enough jump to have time to bend their knees up to their chest (without dropping that chest down!), straighten their legs back out to land. Let’s get real for a second: teaching tuck jumps to preschoolers is hard.
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