About the challenge
For The 10 Commandments you will need two groups of ten people, ten minutes, one corridor space, one bath, and an armchair and table. Volunteers take it in turns to perform moves. Each member of a group should be stationed in the appropriate parts of the room to perform a move each. They should all perform their allotted move simultaneously. Each move must be held for three seconds. Once everyone has completed their move, they move on to the next House Gymnastics space to perform a different move, thus evoking memories of circuit training classes and school gym lessons.
Approximately one minute is allocated for each move. Even if someone doesn’t complete the move, they progress to the next. Each group should receive a mark out of 100 because the maximum number of completed moves by the ten people is 100. So if everyone performs nine out of the ten moves, their group total will be 90. Set up a league table to see which group achieves the highest total in the quickest time.
House Gymnasts may use different apparatus and perform different moves if they wish, but there must be at least three five-star moves and five three-star moves that utilise different body muscles and strengths in the selection chosen. Ten adjudicators need to be present to check the individual moves for validity and time duration.
The video clip below is from the first 10 Commandments challenge, featuring the House Gymnastics song “Put Your Ass in the Air”.