KS4 · Physical education · Year 10

Seat landing and swivel hip developments

Gymnastics: technique, body control and constructive feedback in trampolining

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Your learning goal

I can perform a seat landing and explore ways to develop complexity.

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Seat landing and swivel hip developments: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.

What you’ll learn

I can perform a seat landing and explore ways to develop complexity.

Key learning points

Move: hinging at the hips when hitting the peak of the jump allows time to prepare for the seated position.
Move: bringing your arms up and over in swivel hips helps create momentum to guide the rotation and stabilise the move.
Think: awareness to keep the legs straight and forward for an efficient rotation.
Feel: being in control with good spatial awareness and timing comes from repeated practice and determination.
Connect: listening carefully to the feedback from others helps nurture friendships.

Words to know

seat landing: landing on the trampoline in a seated position with your legs extended and hands placed either side
swivel hips: is a skill where the athlete performs a seat landing, then twists 180 degrees to land back in a seat landing, facing the opposite direction
axis of rotation: refers to the imaginary line around which a gymnast's body rotates.

Common mistakes

Pupils think you need to drop backwards and/or lift the legs upwards to achieve a seated position.

This will lead to being off balance and not allow any progressions from the seat landing. The key to the correct technique is to avoid lifting the legs and jump upwards with a hinge at the hip to then land downwards.

For parents, carers and teachers

Using video clips of the seat landing and progressions works really well to develop imagery, as does encouraging the pupils to take some recordings which they can slow down to unpick their strengths and areas of improvement with the technique. Be aware of issues when wearing socks on some surfaces.