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Student Workbook
Name:
Achievement Criteria
Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence
Demonstrate strategies to Demonstrate strategies to Demonstrate strategies to
improve the performance of a improve the performance of a improve the performance of a
physical activity and describe the physical activity and describe, in physical activity and describe,
outcomes. depth, the outcomes. comprehensively, the outcomes.
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1.3 Circus Performance Achievement Criteria
Diabolo Juggling Plate
Spinning
Achieved
Get the diabolo spinning
Juggle for 5 seconds Get the plate spinning
for at least 10 seconds in
with 3 balls. once from a maximum of
a maximum of 2
2 attempts. 3 attempts
attempts
(4 drops in total)
Juggle for 10 seconds
Merit
Get the diabolo spinning Get the plate spinning
with 3 balls and perform
and perform 1 trick in a once from a maximum of
a trick.
maximum of 2 attempts 2 attempts
2 attempts.
(3 drops in total)
Excellence
Get the diabolo spinning
Juggle for 10 seconds Get the plate spinning in
and perform 2 tricks in
and perform 2 tricks one attempt
one attempt
(0 drops)
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Stages of Learning
There are 3 stages of learning
What does a performer What does a performer
Stage Describe stage
in this stage look like? in this stage need?
Cognitive
Associative
Autonomous
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Initial Skills Assessment
Achievement level:
Stage of Learning for this skill:
Your current knowledge of technique:
Previous experience and practice:
Other factors:
What do you need to improve:
Plate Spinning
Achievement level:
Stage of Learning for this skill:
Your current knowledge of technique:
Previous experience and practice:
Other factors:
What do you need to improve:
Juggling
Achievement level:
Stage of Learning for this skill:
Your current knowledge of technique:
Previous experience and practice:
Other factors:
What do you need to improve:
Diablo sticks
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TECHNIQUE
Plate Spinning
Plate Spinning instructions:
Let the plate hang on the stick by the rim of the base
Start with a gentle rotation (in whatever direction feels most comfortable)
Speed up the spin, this should be coming from your wrist
Once the plate is spinning around quickly freeze your hand and wrist and point the stick
to the middle of the plate
If the stick is held too tightly, the plate will loop around the stick
Tricks you can try:
Throws and catches
Pass under the leg
Curls
Spin on finger
Stick Balances
Pass to a partner
Multiple plate spinning
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Diabolo
How to get the Diabolo spinning:
Position the Diabolo on the floor over the string
Roll it across the floor away from your spinning hand (usually your dominant hand)
Lift up off ground
Maintain spin by moving dominant hand up and down, you may move other hand to assist, but
this is not necessary whatever feels most comfortable
If your Diabolo begins to tilt to a side move your dominant hand towards or away from you
depending on what way it tilts
Tossing the Diabolo:
Lift the sticks to above waist height, between there and shoulders is ideal
Pull the string tight to propel Diabolo into the air be careful to not be too snappy on this as it
can break the string
The faster you straighten the string the higher the Diabolo will go
Hold sticks above your head with string still tight with your dominant hand slightly higher
As the Diabolo hits the string release the tension and resume spinning
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Tricks you can try:
Toss and bounce Rebound
Cats cradle
Over the leg/arm
Climbing the string
Stick tricks
Around the world
Other tricks and the how to videos can be found at:
www.diabolotricks.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl6PkykM5RE Basic Diabolo tricks
http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_50_introduction-diabolo-juggling.html
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Juggling
Tips for juggling success:
Imagine a microphone in front of you, at or
about eye level
Toss under the microphone with each throw
Catch on the outside and scoop under the
microphone from the outside to the centre
Catch the ball like an egg, cushioning the
catch
You want movements with balls and throws
to be smooth
Imagine a wall directly in front of you, so all
throws are upwards not forwards
Understand the movement pattern
Practice
Two ball juggling:
With a ball in each hand first throw one
Throw second ball once first peaks
If you throw in correct paths and timing balls will not collide
At first do not worry about catching balls, focus on accurate
throws and getting rhythm
Once you have mastered an accurate and consistent toss
with each hand work on catching with either hand
If you can master this you are ready for the 3 ball cascade
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3 ball cascade:
Hold two balls in one hand and one in the
other
The order that you will throw each ball is
indicated in the picture (a)
Throw ball 1 in the air
Once ball 1 reaches its apex throw ball 2
Once ball 2 hits its apex throw ball 3
Focus on the timing and accuracy of these
throws before you start catching the balls
Once you feel you have the order of throws
start catching the balls
Apart from the split second you have between throwing and catching you should
only ever have one ball in your hand
With the three ball cascade you will always be throwing and catching with alternate
hands
Be careful not to reach up and catch, when you catch your hands should be at the
same height of your throws
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Tricks you can try:
Reverse cascade
Columns
Yo-yo
Under the leg
Over the shoulder
Body bounces
Other tricks and the how to videos can be found at:
http://www.crazytieguy.com/rttm/Juggling1high.html
http://didier.arlabosse.free.fr/balles/english/figures.html
Technique Reflection
WHAT:
- did you learn?
- did you notice about your practice?
HOW:
- did this influence your performance?
- did your performance improve?
- did you implement this increased knowledge?
WHY:
- do you think this strategy was/wasnt effective?
SO WHAT:
- do you still need to improve?
- did you think of the overall value of this new knowledge?
- do you still need to learn?
- are you going to do with this knowledge in the future?
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WHAT:
HOW:
WHY:
SO WHAT:
Plate Spinning
WHAT:
HOW:
WHY:
SO WHAT:
Juggling
WHAT:
HOW:
WHY:
SO WHAT:
Diablo sticks
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Goal Setting
Identify your level of performance of each skill in the initial performance
Diablo Juggling Plate Spinning
Where do I need to improve AND how can I do this?
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KNOWLEDGE OF TECHNIQUE?
PRACTICE METHODS?
CONFIDENCE? MOTIVATION?
EMOTIONS? EQUIPMENT?
SEQUENCE?
TIME MANAGEMENT?
Goals should be SMART
S
M
A
R
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Set yourself 2 SMART goals that you are going to work on over the next couple of weeks
Write these goals on page 201 in Blue workbook in the dark shaded boxes.
Do you have any other minor/smaller goals you want to achieve:
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Motivation
Motivation is a persons desire to complete a task
What is the advantage of high motivation? What are the draw-backs of low motivation?
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Types of motivation
Where does it come from Examples
Intrinsic
Extrinsic
What do you think is the most powerful motivator? Explain why?
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PUNISHMENT
REWARD
Factors that can
COMPETITION aid/hinder motivation CO-
OPERATION
Blue workbook
Pg 167 Brainstorm factors that increase and decrease motivation
Pg168 Factors that influence motivation in an activity
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Types of Learning & Practice
Whole VS Part Learning
Whole Part
the skill
learnt?
taught/
How is
this way?
Why is it
taught Examples
Pg 181-184 Blue workbook
Massed VS Distributed Practice
Massed Distributed
What is it
Advantages
Disadvantages
Pg 178 -181 Blue workbook
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Psychology Mental Factors
Confidence is a persons belief in themselves to complete a task
People that perform skills with high levels of confidence are more likely to be
positive/negative about what they are doing and often tend to have a
lesser/better level of success. People with low confidence tend to have a
positive/negative mindset about what they are doing, doubt their ability to
perform the task, and often experience more/less success as a result.
Control of factors that affect confidence
Place the following factors into the categories in the table below:
Level of ability, Weather, Crowd, Knowledge of the activity, Last practice,
Opposition, Equipment, Venue
Can control Cant control
What circus skill do you have the least amount of confidence in? _______________________
How can you increase your confidence in this skill?
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HOMEWORK: Read Article on Pg 9 and answer following questions
1) How does Toutai Kefu ensure he does not get over-confident when playing the All Blacks?
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2) What does Kefu think the All Blacks rely on to win games?
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3) What trap does Kefu think the All Blacks fell into during the game in Dunedin?
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Memories of bad times spur enough for Wallabies
When Wallaby No. 8 Toutai Kefu tangles with the All Blacks he uses a memory bank of the bad times
to allay any over-confidence.
The 39 test veteran agrees that he and his team-mates are self-assured facing the old foe in Sydney
tomorrow night because of six victories in their last eight meetings, and the knowledge they have of the
opposition through the Super 12 and Tri-Nations.
You get familiarity with their patterns and the way they play he said.
But I always remind myself when I play against them that four or five years ago it was not so rosy.
Its an extra motivation to do well against the All Blacks and I am pretty sure most of the boys have
been around during the leaner times in 1995, 1996 and into 1997.
And once you get into the high periods like we have been in the last couple of years, it is important to
milk it for as long as possible, because for every high there comes a low and that could arrive at any
time.
His consistency was a crucial part of the Wallabies ability to confront larger, more physical packs.
At Carisbrook this month, the Wallabies reversed the history sheets and took another All Black scalp.
Kefu thinks he can pinpoint the main reason.
We probably have had the wood on them, but I think in the last game in Dunedin they might have gone
into the game a bit over-confident he said.
Especially with their win over South Africa and our loss to South Africa.
So, I think there was a big problem for them on that occasion, but with the carrot of the Tri-Nations
dangling, I fully expect this to be a really hard clash.
Did this years variable results indicate a much harder Tri-Nations or did the Wallabies find the All
Blacks easier to play then the Springboks?
Kefu found some substance in both theories.
Scores had been close in most Tri-Nations games, indicating the difficulty in each test. Teams were
winning with their defence, a ploy the Wallabies had been using for several seasons.
The All Blacks had more skill and usually a more flexible game-plan, but they tended to rely on
individual brilliance more than teamwork.
There would be much made in the public about the Wallabies playing for their retiring captain John
Eales, but as a leader he just emphasized what the team had to do to win the test and retain the Tri-
Nations trophy.
It was a reflection of the man and his style unflustered, cool and calm a skipper with strong
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Arousal
All athletic performers have an optimal level of arousal (anxiety), a level where peak
performance is possible. Too little or too much arousal can negatively affect performance.
How can we increase arousal/anxiety? How can be decrease arousal/anxiety?
Choose once circus activity to perform, practice for a period of 5 minutes then complete
all boxes on pg 173 of Blue Book except box at the bottom.
Implement your strategies in further practice then reflect in bottom box
Preliminary Assessment
How did I do?
Diablo Juggling Plate Spinning
Where do I still need to improve? And how will I do it
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Strategy to improve performance
Choose one strategy to demonstrate during your training.
Your teacher will observe you using this and may ask you questions about how you are using
the strategy and the outcome of its use.
You will need to comprehensively describe the outcome of this selected strategy and
technique for your AS1.6 assessment
Highlight your selected strategy:
quality of practice
type of practice
amount of practice
knowledge of tactics and strategies
levels of related fitness
level of motivation
goal setting
Flowchart to help with assessment preparation on next page
WHAT Describe what strategies
What strategy did I use? you used and what you
What part of your performance are you trying to saw when using them?
improve?
What did you notice about your actions and
behaviours when using the strategy?
What was an advantage
HOW of using these
How did these strategy influence performance? strategies?
How well did the strategy work? What was a
How did you implement these strategies? disadvantage of using
How did your performance improve/or not? these strategies?
WHY
Is there any bias when
What evidence is there to support the strategy?
viewing this evidence?
SO WHAT What needs to change?
From using the strategy what can I conclude? How can I make a
What would I modify for the future? change? Why should it
\ change?
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SO WHAT
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