Sentences with phrase «on a balance beam»

Dominique Dawes of the USA stretches on the balance beam during her routine in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.

Not with all those young women dancing on a balance beam in the front yard of the old Pitts home.

«She's had the courage to do two backflips on the balance beam,» he says.

He may be trying to steady himself on a balance beam whenever he opens up about Arsenal on Sky Sports, but this time Thierry Henry didn't hold back.

A two - story glass wall with an observation deck will enable parents and others to watch as gymnasts teeter on the balance beam, tackle the vault, or tumble across a 40 - by - 40 foot mat.

Trainees perfect balance and fortify core strength by standing on balance beams in a circle and throwing medicine balls at each other.

Perhaps you are still in Olympic mode and you think of the amazing women's gymnastics team balancing on the balance beam.

for example, walking on a balance beam (fixed object) requires righting reflex activation as the dominant reflex profile, while tilting reflexes are activated when you step on an object that moves under you (figure 7), such as a moving sidewalk in the airport, riding a horse, or riding a surfboard.

Ever watched a gymnast on a balance beam?

Robots are tasked with such activities as getting balls and flying discs into goal zones, hanging onto bars, and even balancing on balance beams.

Before realizing her love for animals (particularly Cocker Spaniels) Megan was a gymnast, having much success on the balance beam.

Trained to perform Olympic style feats, these cats will be slam - dunking, strutting on balance beam and kicking - off the show by lighting a torch!

Furthermore, if you are on a balance beam and all three heroes fall it will take away a full three hearts of damage.

It requires you to balance the weight on balance beams, which can be done significantly easier when playing in multiplayer mode.

She faltered on the balance beam earning a bronze and competes in women's floor exercise later today.

Portuguese artist Leonora Antunes on her balance beam in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

It is on that balance beam that we find the stability and health of a properly functioning society.

Just like how, for Alexa Moreno, it's about her Olympic accomplishments on the balance beam.

Not exact matches

Griffiths likens a religious reader engaged in critical thinking to a balance - beam gymnast who keeps one eye on the floor as she does her somersaults.

Captain Ellie Bartlett got into the Endzone on Monday night and to celebrate she climbed up one of the soccer goal posts, hopped up onto the crossbar, and to everyone's disbelief, broke out into an Olympic style balance beam routing — flips and all.

Instruction will include progressions on all of the Olympic apparatus; floor exercise (tumbling), vaulting, rings, balance beam, uneven bars, horizontal bar, pommel horse, parallel bars, trampoline, tumble trak and mini tramp.

On the other side of the room, during a recent toddler open - gym at the Palatine Park District, Rick Moore carefully holds the hand of his 1 - year - old daughter, Meredith, as she fearlessly walks the length of a balance beam.

Crawl through the hollow «stump tunnel,» climb tall branches, and test your balance on our flexible balance beams and carved «branch bridge.»

The movement on scooter boards also stimulates the vestibular system and like balance beams, scooter boards can easily be used indoors.

10 - Balance beam — Balance beams provide vestibular input as well as work on physical motor control and coordination.

Imagine if an Olympic gymnast landed the dismount from a balance beam, and the audience looked to the judges» table — but instead of holding up placards with numbers on them, the judges mumbled, «Sorry, we weren't watching.»

The assessment included dynamic balance (walking on a beam); and static balance (heel to toe balance on a beam, standing on one leg for 20 seconds) with eyes open and then again with eyes closed.

«Whether it's tripping on an uneven patch of sidewalk or negotiating a wobbly balance beam, we can all recall times when we've nearly lost our balance — only to be saved by some quick reflexes,» said Thomas M. Jessell, PhD, codirector of Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and the paper's senior author.

For example, preliminary research in mice has shown that the LVN appears to perk up when the animal begins walking on something unsteady, such as a balance beam.

The current study compares findings from both CAG 140 KI and CAG 175 KI mice using the tapered balance beam task, with an emphasis on evaluating whether early deficits can be revealed in heterozygous KI mice.

Still, The Bronze has a loony Napoleon Dynamite - meets - Talladega Nights - on - the - balance - beam charm.

A man stands on the end of a steel beam at the very top of one of the Twin Towers and looks across to the other tower; a heavy wind blows and he has to balance himself.

Their physical testing requires them to be able to scale vertical walls up to 1.8 meters, balance on a thin beam, complete tracking tests and search through blinds.

Canine agility is a sport where dogs are taught to jump hurdles, weave through poles, scamper through tunnels, wrap around barrels and gates, and climb A-frame structures — even balance on a beam suspended five feet above the ground.

After settling into your tents it's on with some fun woodland games such axe throwing, balance beams or even friction fire lighting.

The first isn't so bad, but the second one involves having to balance on beams by moving a character around very careful, and it's nothing short of painful thanks to the loose controls.

You must build your kingdom on a beam balanced on top of a mountain while attempting to defeat your opponent!

The goal in adventure mode is to stack blocks on the teetering balance beam to reach the finish line placed somewhere above.

There, up on the beams of skyscrapers, balanced as easily as on a tricycle, his men continue to smile.

They seem full of promise and optimism, and perfectly reflect the vibrant balance of the works, which hover or balance in the air, like planes or beams of solid colour, poised, ready to move on, but holding their position for as long as you want to enjoy them.

Hauser & Wirth continues its outdoor sculpture programme with Martin Creed's «Work No. 700» (2007), three progressively slimmer steel I - beams balanced on top of each other.