Acrobatics 101 | Cartwheel
Studio Dansu's Owner and Artistic Director Jayme and student demonstrate a cartwheel lesson with the Acrobatics Art curriculum.
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Video Transcript:
hi I'm Jayme Shimooka owner and artistic
director of Studio Dansu and this is
Acro 101
[Music]
today for acro 101 we're going to
continue working on our cartwheels so we
follow the acrobatic Arts curriculum and
they have a specific way to start and
end their cartwheel
what we like to do is start with a
strong tondu forward with strong arms
out in front of us
as the student goes down into the
cartwheel they're going to turn their
arms
perform a cartwheel as normal
and then we like to do what I call a
rainbow out
or really it's a way to transfer the
weight
so as the dancer comes out of the
cartwheel
they're transferring their weight into
that other foot and the reason acrobatic
arts does this is because then we can
put the cartwheel into any sort of
movement
and go anywhere
with that momentum so we want to point
our foot forward and arms up nice and
strong so we're looking at the mirror so
we can really see how that we're
starting this so let's make that foot
point forward
good right now we're starting on or
we're working on the starting for our
cartwheel so that is a nice strong start
so let's put that back together
and one more time start for the
cartwheel beautiful all right so now we
can turn it face the side because that's
the direction we're going to go so I
want you to do that nice strong start
good all right and go for your cartwheel
when you are ready
[Music]
good all right so that was really lovely
so one thing I know you've been working
on stretching your knees and that was
really nice I want you to continue
working on stretching through your ankle
as well okay but we're working on that
rainbow right okay so at the end we want
to make a rainbow so let's put our hands
on our hip
and we're going to Rainbow
to the side let's try that again we're
going to put our hands on our hip
rainbow to the side one more time put
our hands on our hip
rainbow to the side that is how we're
going to come out of that cartwheel okay
so I want you to try that again with a
nice strong start
cartwheel and get that rainbow at the
end
rainbow good getting better let's try
that one more time
nice strong start
rainbow that was better yes let's do it
one more time
strong start
family that was really good for more
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