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It's different in every program - I have seen programs that require basically nothing but an interest in gymnastics and other programs that require you to have your full silver routines ready to compete before even joining. fwiw, I'd accept her onto our silver team and consider her for dev...

I have a natural hyperextension in both elbows, I try to do all my gymnastics locked out and have never injured my elbows - but I have felt injury-type pain start to build, and that's when I start unlocking my elbows or take a break from training. my 2 cents: hyper extended elbows are more...

I feel like I might sound like a caveman but I thought shape change = power, so hollow to straight = some power and pike to straight = lots of power (cuz more shape change), no? I see Japanese beginners learning bhs with full depth squat -> extension to arch and I'm like "nice, so much shape...

my understanding of the pulling/pushing component in kipping is like: •glide swing •leg lift at full extension of glide •straight arm pulldown paired with explosive kick out of pike position while sliding from ankles to hip joint along the surface of the bar •a sudden "stopping" of the leg kick...

Kips are different on the high bar because glide swing vs. long swing - it seems to me that a common training mistake is spending all or most kipping time on the low bar and assuming it will transfer over to the high bar. they are very similar after all. I'd simply increase the # of high bar...

We use iClassPro - I really like the skill tracking feature. Here's an example of one gymnast's skill sheet: We created progressions for all the stuff we want to track (tops abilities and xcel bronze routine scores), we mark all gymnast's progress every day on our own google sheet, then copy...

We are teaching our first-year lv3's front hips right now... it is going ok. We have ~8 girls and half of them have made their front hips within about a month of concentrating on it. We are making the front hip our priority on bars because we think it's the most difficult skill to attain for L3...

At least in my region, the judge's association is pretty excited to recruit new judges. I would reach out to your local judge's association and contact someone to ask how you can get involved - I'm sure they can and would like to point you in the right direction. I think USAG has sample judging...

Like a cast into straddle stand on the bar. For press exercises... it depends on your current strength and flexibility capability - here are some that aren't hard to modify harder/easier. 1. Straddle-L hold on parallettes or your preferred surface 2. Negative Press: Handstand, middle split...

some ideas I have for next steps could be 1. cast to straddle stand/birdie pirch on the bar and forward roll off the bar onto mats - count how many times you can make it go over the bar in a row to improve at the skill of placing your shoulders over the bar - 5-10 in a row, revisit if you start...

Sounds interesting! Could you please share it with me?

Learn how to front layout if you haven't already - it is really effective for developing FHS to pad up the vault table (drape a 8" or 4" over it, landing mats on the other side) and practice front tucking over the whole table and building up to a front layout over the table. A common...

We have two bronze groups - one that trains twice a week for ~3 hours /week and another that trains 3 times a week for ~5.5 hours /week - we started the groups 5 months ago and it is going great.

I was homeschooled, so I didn't go to school like that. I did go everywhere else like that, though.

Looks pretty good - she is not making any large mistakes. seems to me like she just needs some time to get the rhythm. any day now :)