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Skill Play Skill play apparatus provide an accessible and practical option for schools, as the equipment is affordable, safe, durable, compact, easily stored and is a transportable teaching resource.
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Active Benefits There is a broad range of benefits associated with the practice of these apparatus in curriculum, extending from the intellectual and physical development of students to the emotional and social aspects of physical education.
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Powerful Learning The process of learning juggling apparatus is not restricted to the perfection of performing one particular task, but related to many aspects of development and interaction, especially in the education of children.
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Juggling

Juggling is at once: a performing art, a sport, a form of exercise and meditation, a recreational pursuit, and often simply child's play. In juggling, objects — such as balls, bean bags, fruit, clubs, etc. — are thrown or tossed into the air and caught. Multiple objects may be thrown in succession, so that at a given point, some are in the air, going up, some are falling back towards the juggler's hands, some are being caught and some are being thrown. Technically, juggling is a form of object manipulation.

Flower Sticks

A "set" of Flower Sticks is made up of three pieces — the centre stick and two control sticks
The center stick is lifted/struck/stroked alternately by the two control sticks ('handsticks' or 'sidesticks'). The control sticks, and sometimes the baton as well, are often covered with leather, silicon, rubber, tape, skateboard grip, sandpaper or cloth, in order to provide good 'grip' or friction when in contact with the center stick.

In one basic stick maneuver known as Tick-tock, the Idle or the Pendulum, the center stick is lifted alternately with the left and right handsticks touching the baton at a point about halfway between the center of gravity and each end, causing the ends to swing to either side while the center of the baton remains at a somewhat constant height. The Tick-tockis an important move to learn, because to a great extent, every other trick is a variation of it.

Plate spinning

Plate spinning is a circus manipulation art where a person spins plates, bowls and other flat objects on poles, without them falling off. Plate spinning relies on the gyroscopic effect, in the same way a top stays upright while spinning.

Balance feather

The ultimate learning tool for balancing.
Because of their high centre of mass, peacock feathers move very slowly. This allows even the youngest student time to understand and develop balance.

Poi

Poi refers to both a style of performing art and the equipment used for engaging in poi performance. As a performance art, poi involves swinging tethered weights through a variety of rhythmical and geometric patterns. Poi can be made from various materials with different handles, weights, and effects (such as fire).

Staff

There are two predominant styles for manipulating a staff: rotational and contact. In rotational staff manipulation, the performer's hands are used to manipulate the motion and rotation of the staff. Contact staff is a technique whereby the performer rolls the staff over parts of their arms, legs and body.

Contact juggling

Contact juggling is a form of object manipulation that focuses on the movement of objects such as balls in contact with the body. Although often used in conjunction with "toss juggling", it differs in that it involves the rolling of one or more objects without releasing them into the air. It is divided into three main techniques:

Body rolling means manipulating one or more props (usually balls) around the hands, arms, and other parts of the body. Balance is required to hold the ball in various positions of control. This includes tricks such as head rolling and the butterfly, the trick of rolling the ball from the palm to the back of the hand via the fingertips.
Palm spinning means manipulating one or more balls in the open hand so that at least one ball is in motion. Balls may be in both hands or transferred between hands to form graceful and fluid patterns, including rotating a pyramid made of four or five balls in one hand.
Isolation refers to the manipulation of a ball so that it appears to be suspended in place. Similar to sleight-of-hand techniques in magic or fixed-point mime techniques; the performers exploit the clear surface of the ball to hide any noticeable rotation, creating the effect that the ball is still while the performer moves around the ball.

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