Airplanes – The Ticket to Agility and Coordination

Airplanes – The Ticket to Agility and Coordination

by | May 8, 2017 | Body Awareness, Directional Awareness, Large Space Activities, Outdoor Activities, Perceptual Motor Skills, Play & Development, Spatial Awareness

By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Speed is more than just getting from point A to point B really, really fast. In life, and in sports, there are usually obstacles, various surfaces to contend with, hills and valleys and of, course, someone might be trying to take you down!...
Twister Call Outs – Twist Your Way to Better Directional Awareness

Twister Call Outs – Twist Your Way to Better Directional Awareness

by | Apr 27, 2017 | Body Awareness, Directional Awareness, Indoor Activities, Movement Break Activities, Perceptual Motor Skills, Play & Development

By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS If you remember playing twister as a kid you no doubt recall trying to get your body into crazy positions without falling over. Inevitably, you fell over, laughed and did it again. Twister call outs uses a similar format, only you don’t need...
Getting Kids to Work Together- Teamwork Makes the Dream Work!

Getting Kids to Work Together- Teamwork Makes the Dream Work!

by | Feb 26, 2017 | Directional Awareness, Outdoor Activities, Perceptual Motor Skills, Play & Development, Proprioceptive Awareness, Spatial Awareness, Tactile Awareness, Vestibular Awareness

By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS  Playing on a team is not just about each person doing their job right, it’s also about that unspoken team chemistry that makes a good team great! A novel way to foster this chemistry is with cooperative games. The travel circle is a fun way...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 3 – Directional Awareness

The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 3 – Directional Awareness

by | Mar 26, 2015 | Coaching & Teaching, Directional Awareness, Indoor Activities, Large Space Activities, Outdoor Activities, Perceptual Motor Skills, Play & Development, Small Space Activities

By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in the first post in this series, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a...