adult fitness: L-sit
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Rick Mc
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Rick Mc
FUN kip drill
The kip on Bars is one of the most difficult skills in Gymnastics. Shawn Johnson said it was the most difficult skill for her.
But every little girl wants to try it.
Here’s a good drill that requires no spotting.
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Rick Mc
Rings are great for strength
For boys and girls. 🙂
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Rings are one of least expensive apparatus you can add to your gym. Those from Tumbl Trak cost as little as $56.
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Rick Mc
box handstand
The last thing you want to do with your beginners is SPOT their handstands.
Here’s a good drill linked by Swing Big for those who are already excellent balancing against the wall. 🙂
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Reminder – NEVER videotape any skill with the camera vertical. Move further backwards and video with the camera in the normal position.
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Rick Mc
introducing backward handspring
In an advanced recreation class it’s not possible to spot every child, even though they ALL want to work towards backward handspring.
In fact, I ask my instructors to NEVER SPOT … with the rare, odd exception. 🙂
Tumbl Trak founder Doug Davis shows some activities kids can do safely and without spotting. A high level of physical preparation is required, of course.
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Colleen
I love this video! I would love to learn more techniques for LESS spotting!
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Rick Mc
Quick Tip – Jumping
Swing Big:
… one of the drills I do with young gymnasts to develop their punching and coordination. …
There are lots of ways you can do these drills, this is with a small hula hoop, but I really prefer carpet squares or a chalk box on the floor. The more ways you can get gymnasts punching and jumping early, the better off they’ll be. …
click through to see the rest – Quick Tip: Developing Punching and Coordination
(via Gymnastics Coaching)
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Rick Mc
more drills build confidence
You could SPOT a beginner on backward handspring. 😦
Far better is to set-up dozens of progressions without spot. Let the child move step-by-step at their own speed. Have success at each. Dozens of successes.
Let them take ownership of the skill. 🙂
Carrie Lennox:
In last month’s Tumbl Trak newsletter Doug Davis wrote about how progressions build confidence and reduce fear. Just thinking about an athlete “balking” in a round off-back handspring, or other tumbling series is enough to make me shudder.
“Connecting the Dots” is a way to describe all the steps involved in the physical preparation of an athlete and offering an athlete frequent opportunities to feel confident in every step in the process. In a recent video session filming skill progressions, we worked with a young athlete who has good basic training combined with good genes from her parents. The video session focused on cartwheel, handstand, and back handspring progressions from jumping to limbers to fly-backs to work in the pit, (which she had done in many workouts previously).
After filming more than 30 different progressions that lead to a back handspring, our session ended in the pit where we saw in her a confidence and will to move on to her very first back handsprings!! Wooo Hoooo!! We cheered and celebrated with hip-hip-hurray’s and it dawned on me…..we had spent the last two hours “connecting the dots” for this athlete. All the preparation she had done in her classes, put together in a sequence, helped to give her to confidence and success.
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Rick Mc
Bar pullover progressions
Tumbl Trak:
… For beginner athletes, building enough strength and confidence on bars takes lots and lots of steps that often get skipped in a typically rigorous, fast-paced gym curriculum. We’ve compiled a list of important success steps to challenge kids BEFORE the elusive pullover. …
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Rick Mc
girls using Rings
I love to see girls doing anything on Rings. They are even better for general upper body strength than rope.
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I especially like the flyaway from Rings. :_
Rings are one of least expensive apparatus you can add to your gym. Those from Tumbl Trak cost as little as $56.
(via Tumbl Trak email newsletter)
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Rick Mc
SUPERMAN
Just one of the hundreds of gymnastics video tutorials on BackHandspring.com.
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Colleen is discussing. 
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