Scoring and fitness tests
Ready when: nothing needed.
What you are learning
How a wushu routine is judged (the quality of the movements, the difficulty, and the overall performance), and two simple tests (a standing jump and a 30 m run) to measure progress each month.
Words on this card Taolu, Judging
- Taolu
- Set routines (forms) performed alone and judged.
- Judging
- Quality of movement, overall performance and degree of difficulty.
Show it first for the one teaching
- Say the three scoring parts aloud and give an example of each: clean stances, a high jump, strong spirit.
- Standing broad jump: feet together, swing the arms and jump forward as far as you can; land and hold; measure from the line to the back of the heels.
- 30 m run: lean forward, push off and run to the line; time it.
Your part while they practise
Measure and record.
Step by step
- Say the three parts of taolu scoring: quality of movement, degree of difficulty, overall performance.
- Do the standing broad jump.
- Do a 30 m run.
- Write the results; repeat monthly.
How much: 3 jumps and 2 runs 10 min a session once a month
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Beat your number
Compare this month's best jump and run with last month's.
Who plays: the child against their own last results.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- Read last month's numbers
- Take 3 jumps and 2 runs; keep the best of each
- Write them down beside last month's
- Fair play
- Measure every jump the same way.
- Points
- 1 point for each result better than last month; 1 point for saying the three scoring parts.
- Fouls
- That try does not count
- A step before the jump
- A landing that falls back
- A start before "go"
- Winning
- Beat last month.
- 1 points for 1 star
- 2 points for 2 stars
- 3 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
One test.
Add the stick-drop reaction test.
What you will see, and what to say
- a stiff landing
Bend the knees and land soft
Soft and still. - a slow start
Lean forward and push
Drive off.
Self-check
The 3 scoring parts said from memory and 2 numbers recorded.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains knowing the judging, measuring progress.
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