Airplane balance with T-walk
Category: Balance
Level: 2
Airplane
- Initiate movement by pushing hips backwards into the hinge position as torso slowly lowers towards the floor
- Flat back and neutral neck position throughout the movement
- Slight knee bend as torso lowers
- Hips remain square
- Slow, controlled movement
Lunge
- From extension, back leg comes forward and up into knee drive, then steps forward and down into lunge
- Knee stacked over ankle at each lunge
- Move opposing arm &Â leg together at each direction:
- Toes of both feet point forward
- Round back
- Cue "Pinch shoulders back"
- Cue "Push hips back"
- Hips externally rotating (turning outward)
- Cue "Point foot of free leg towards standing leg"
- Cue "Hips face the floor"
- Knee collapsing inward
- Cue "Drive knee out towards pinky toe"
- Neck extension (looking up)
- Cue "Look up through the eyebrows"
Lunge
- Knee collapsing inward
- Cue "Look down: Can you see the inside of your front foot?"
- Back foot twisting
- Cue "Point toes straight ahead
- Dynamic balance
- Ankle stability
- Knee control
- Hip-dominant movement targets posterior chain (back, glutes, hamstrings)
- Shoulder activation
- Reinforces safe, neutral spine position