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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for basic acrobatic sessions
   • Select clothing and footwear suitable to session
   • Select, inspect and test equipment for safety and relevance
   • Check performance spaces for safety and report safety issues to relevant personnel
   • Perform safe warm-up exercises and mental preparation techniques to prepare body and mind for routines
   • Clean or clear performance area to ensure safety of performers
2. Participate in basic acrobatic skills routines
   • Correctly apply technical skills to basic acrobatic movements
   • Perform sequences of routines smoothly and in line with safe movement practice
   • Safely perform landings
   • Participate in pair and group routines as required
3. Conclude basic acrobatics sessions
   • Perform safe warm-down exercises
   • Return performance area to original condition
   • Store equipment to maintain quality and reliability
4. Review basic acrobatic skills performance
   • Evaluate own performance in session to assess level of performance and skill development needs
   • Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own basic on-ground acrobatic skills
   • Set realistic goals for improvement and develop strategies to achieve them

Range Statement

This section specifies different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Technical skills must include:	balance body awareness and control controlled and fluid movements coordination flexibility hand and body positioning maintaining focus.
Basic acrobatic movements must include:	basic tumble run cartwheels handstands forward and backward rolls static and running start-up.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

perform a handstand holding form and shape, held for a beat

perform a sequence of six to eight forward or backward rolls, and six to eight cartwheels with both static and running start-up

perform safe and stable landings

effectively support team members

follow safe work practices.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided for each of the above points at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements the individual must:

describe key health and safety issues to be considered when performing basic on-ground acrobatic skills

explain how the following relate to acrobatic movements and techniques:

relationship with gravity

spatial awareness

successional movement

use of breath

body positioning

folding

extending

rotating

shifting weight

warm-up and warm-down techniques

mental focus strategies.

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