Physical Education GCSE

Frontal axis

What Frontal axis means in Physical Education GCSE, as defined for OCR.

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Runs from front to back through the body's centre of mass, and rotation about it occurs in the frontal plane, as in a cartwheel.

OCR · 1.1.c. Movement analysis - Planes of movement and axes of rotation

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1.1.c. Movement analysis - Planes of movement and axes of rotation (OCR GCSE)

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