Types of Body Movements, Axis and Planes

Having studied what movement is and the forces behind it, we now describe the movements themselves — the handful of fundamental body movements from which every sporting action is built — and the planes and axes used to describe them precisely.

In the CBSE Class 11 textbook these two syllabus topics share a single section number (8.5). It opens with the idea of movement (8.5.1), then the eight types of body movements (8.5.2), the directional axis-and-planes terminology (8.5.3), the three planes (8.5.4), the three axes (8.5.5), and finally how the concept is applied to real, multi-plane movement (8.5.6). …