The Advanced Beginner Class builds on the skills mastered in the Beginner Class with new skills and refines those learned by focusing on form and technique.
To enroll in this class, student must be able to:
- Turn hands sideways for cartwheels, kick feet to land one foot and then the other
- Forward roll to stand without using hands at the end to push to a stand
- Stay on the low beam without falling off for the entire length of the beam
- Go upside down on the bar without fear
- March so that when the right knee is up, the left hand is up and vice versa
Skills that must be mastered to advance out of Advanced Beginner:
- Cartwheel with legs going in a rainbow over head
- Backward roll correctly down an incline mat to land on feet
- Bridge with head off floor
- Kick up and step down correctly from a handstand against the wall
- Forward roll dismount from bars
- Straight jump on low beam
- Leap off one foot to land on two feet together and jump