Bar – Pullover drills
Try to resist the urge to SPOT. Be patient with the drills, instead.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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Rick Mc
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Rick Mc
trapeze at the Gym Club
I love swinging Rings and Trapeze. Great FUN. Great upper body strength development. Great aerial awareness.
The principles DANGERS, of course, are twofold:
1) releasing at the wrong time, hitting the BOX (in this case)
2) injury on landingStill … I do many variations of this activity with kids starting age-4. Carefully. Long before I start swinging on a stationary bar.
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Rick Mc
gymnastics – pullover drills
It’s a BIG day when a child does their first pullover alone. (In fact, I rarely will only rarely spot that skill.)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebsLN0Biwbw&feature=player_profilepage
more videos on the TumblTrak YouTube channel
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coachliz96
what a great idea for drills! Coaches ask me all the time how to help kids with pullovers! I agree- spotting it more only helps the coach build more upper body strength! (instead of the kid!)
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Coach S
Great drill. Tried it today and my boys rec class loved it. Even the ones that could already do pullovers.
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Rick Mc
Kip – part 1
Shawn Johnson said the most difficult skill she ever learned was a kip.
True that.
The best tutorial I know on the internet was posted by JAO.
Click PLAY or watch Part 1 on YouTube.
It’s for competitive. But many of the conditioning drills are appropriate for advanced Rec wanting to work towards Glide and Glide Kip.
If you like that, click through to Part 2 / 3 on YouTube.
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Rick Mc
gymnastics photo of the day
From Ortona Gymnastics.
I love seeing kids on Rings. It’s one of the best upper body fitness activities.
Obviously we need good matting when introducing inversion.
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Full Twist
I feel the same about ropes. I can’t get my girls off them 🙂
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