Unit 1 - Introduction to Intermediate Hoop

This unit examines what constitutes an intermediate move and how to decide whether students are ready to progress onto the intermediate syllabus. We will cover a series of markers that will help you assess your students and techniques to introduce more challenging moves.

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Unit 2 - Intermediate Hoop Moves

This unit starts with a progression of the core concepts. We will look at different techniques to introduce lifting into your classes and how you can encourage your students to execute moves more efficiently and move cleanly between positions. Muscular balance and bilateral training are covered before we introduce over 30 of the core intermediate syllabus moves. We look at each action in detail, from the teaching and safety points to progressions and regressions, also touching upon common problems.

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Unit 3 - Introduction to Dynamic Movement

To begin this unit, we will recap the core concepts of creating momentum on a hoop; spinning and dropping. We will cover the rules of teaching dynamic movement and then give you variations on basic moves that you can work through with your students.

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Unit 4 - Strength, Flexibility, and Endurance

When teaching at an intermediate level, there is a greater requirement for students to develop their strength, flexibility, and endurance to achieve more technical moves safely and effectively. This is the focus of unit 4. We look at a range of strength and conditioning exercises, areas of flexibility that need to be trained to progress to an advanced level, and methods of increasing hoop stamina and endurance.

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Unit 5 - Progressive Teaching and Coaching

Unit 5 looks at ways to adapt your teaching methods to enable you to coach students working at height and inverted. We will cover how to progress towards a more student-led coaching system. Look at how you can effectively use progress chains to build lesson plans and how combinations and sequences will allow you to challenge your students, avoid them hitting plateaus and ensure safe progression to an advanced level.

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Unit 6 - Intermediate Health and Safety

Our final unit will look at ways you will need to adapt the health and safety information covered in your level 1 course to make it relevant for an intermediate group. Again, our primary focus at this point is spotting, where we go into the different methods in more detail, progressing to cover spotting dynamic movement and partner spotting.

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We require 100% attendance to graduate and receive a certificate of completion from this program. Class attendance will be taken throughout the training.