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​​Intermediate 1​

 

To move to the intermediate 1 class, girls must have attended continuously at least 1 full year of gymnastics before having the evaluation to move into intermediate. There are exceptions, for example: student has taken gymnastics at another school and/or students taking more than one class a week will advance and learn at a faster rate.​Below are the skills needed to move into the intermediate 1 class.

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  • Student is comfortable walking on the high beam by themselves without a spot

  • Can do a backward roll to their feet on a flat floor (not on cheese mat)

  • Perfected bridges with straight arms

  • Has perfected cartwheel with correct hand order as well as starting and finishing on lunge position

  • Can run and punch the springboard with two feet 

  • Has a handstand with proper foundation

  • Can do Handstand to bridge

  • Bridge kick over with mat - with straight legs

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Students will begin to work towards learning the following skills in the Intermediate 1:​
Floor 

  • Walkovers 

  • Mastering Handstand to bridge 

  • Backward roll to feet

  • Handstand forward roll 

  • Roundoff: step hurdle, running

Bars

  • Glide swing

  • Pullover​

  • Back hip circle

  • Tap swings with re-grip

Beam

  • Straight jumps

  • Pivot turns

  • Handstands on low beam with spot

  • Cartwheels with spot on a low beam

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Vault

  • Handstand on and Handstand off

  • Handstand flat back over the vault table onto the mat stack​​

Intermediate 2

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To move to the intermediate 2 class, girls must have mastered all skills in the intermediate 1 class.​

Students will continue to master skills from intermediate 1 while beginning to add new advance skills in the Intermediate 2:

​Bars

  • Pullover

  • Back hip circle under swing

  • Mill circle with a spot

  • Kip with a spot

Vault 

  • Front handspring with a spot

  • Mastering handstand flat back

Floor 

  • Roundoff

  • Front and back walkover

  • Front handspring

Beam​

  • Cartwheel on low beam

  • Handstand on high beam with a spot

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Intermediate 3

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To move to the intermediate 3 class, girls must have mastered all skills in the intermediate 1 and 2 classes.

​Students will continue to work intermediate 1 and 2 skills while working towards mastering the following in the Intermediate 3:

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Bars

  • Glide swing

  • Pullover

  • Back hip circle

  • Tap swings with re-grip

  • Squad on

  • Leg cut, mill circle with a spot

Beam

  • Releve holds for twenty seconds

  • Cartwheel on low beam without spot

  • Full handstands on low beam without spot

Floor 

  • Handstand hold 

  • Cartwheel 

  • Walkovers 

  • Handstand to bridge stand up

  • Backward roll to feet 

  • Handstand forward roll 

  • Roundoff: step hurdle, running

Vault

  • Handstand flat back over onto the mat stack

  • Body positions

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