Physical

Education
THIRD QUARTER
The Basic
Movement
Skills
The Basic Movement Skills
• Locomotor movements
• Non-Locomotor
movements
 Locomotor Movements

● Locomotor Movements – These movements allow

you to move from one point in space to another. It
is canned from two words, “locos” which means
place and “motor” which means movements.
Locomotor
movements RUN
03 Series of walks executed
quickly in any direction
wherein only one-foot
STEP stays on the ground while
01 It is defined as transfer of
weight from one foot to the
the other is off the ground.
other.
JUMP
04 This movement is simply
WALK described by having both
feet lose its contact with
02 Series of steps executed
by both of your feet ground and landing on
alternately in any direction. both feet on the ground.
 Non- Locomotor Movements

● These are movements that are performed in one

point in space without transferring to another
point. They don’t allow you to move from one
place to the other.
Non-
Locomotor
movements
FLEXION
01 It is the act of decreasing
the angle of a joint. Another
term for flexion is to bend..

EXTENSION
It is the act of increasing
02 the angle of a joint.
Stretching is another word
for extension.
Non-
Locomotor
movements CONTRACTION
03 A muscle movement done
when it shortens, narrows,
and tightens using the
amount of energy in the
execution..

RELEASE
04 A muscle movement
opposite to contraction
done when it let goes or let
loses of being held into a
shortening movement..
Non-Locomotor movements
COLLAPSE ROTATION
05 To deliberately drop the 07 It is to move a body
exertion of energy into a segment allowing it to
body segment.. . complete a circle with its
motion.

TWIST
08 To move a body segment
from an axis halfway front
RECOVER or back or quarter to the
06 This is to regain the energy
right of left as in the
twisting of the neck
exerted into a body
allowing the head to face
segment.
right or left and the like. A C
Non-Locomotor movements
PIVOT
To change the position of
09 the feet or any body part
that carries the body’s
weight allowing the body
to face in a less than 360
degrees turn.

TURN
10 To move in a turning
movement with a base of
support, usually a pointed
foot, the other raised, while
equilibrium is maintained
until the completion of the
turn
Basic Folk
Dance