Planes and Axes

Question 1

What are the 3 types of Planes?

Answer 1

1) Sagittal Plane
2) Frontal Plane
3) Transverse Plane

Question 2

What do planes describe?

Answer 2

Movement in the body

Question 3

What is the Sagital Plane?

Answer 3

Divides the body from top to bottom (vertically), resulting in a left side and right side.

Question 4

What is the Frontal Plane?

Answer 4

Divides the body from top to bottom (Vertically), but into front and back sections.

Question 5

What is the Transverse Planes?

Answer 5

Divides the body across the middle (horizontally), giving a top section and a bottom section.

Question 6

What are the characteristics of a Front Somersault?

Answer 6

You move forward, with your left and right sides moving together in the same direction, in the sagital plane and your body bends on a line that runs horizontally from side to side, around your frontal axis.

Question 7

What are the characteristics of a Cartwheel?

Answer 7

You move sideways, from right to left or left to right, in the frontal plane. Your body rotates around a line that runs from the front to the back of your body, around your sagittal axis.

Question 8

What are the characteristics of a Twist Jump?

Answer 8

The key movement is not up or down, or from side to side, but around one spot, in the transverse plane. They twist around an invisible line that runs from head to toe, around the vertical axis.