- Nov 16, 2012
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Like some of you may remember I started to coach the first optional level girls last January. Since then I have learned A LOT and become much better coach. Now I feel much more confident spotting them also.
Well, the girls already had their giants on strap bar when I started to coach them. We don't use PVC pipe, we prefer gloves. So they have to shift the drifts at least a little. They have now good giants on strap bar. I never sport them when they do these. They do them from tap swings.
I think we should transfer the giants from straps to real bar now. The problem is that I don't know how. The girls are old (12-15 yo) and the tallest is 170 cm tall. During summer I coach them two days a week and their other coach has the other two days. I coach in a different building to the other coach and we have worse equipment. NO PIT BAR! And only one coach.... In the other building there is a pit bar but I'm not with them when the'll have a access to it.
So please help me. Should we start on low bar with bent knees? The older girls are pretty good spotting each other so I thought maybe I should make them help me spotting the giants so there would be a double spot at first... We have very limited number of spotting blocks and they are quite unstable, yikes. I think I need the whole team to keep the blocks stable during spotting.
I would much prefer skip the giants completely and teach other bar skills but the level E requires a giant. Our girls have competed level E without giants and so do almost all the other gyms. But I think we have to take the bull by the horns and start learning the giants on regular bar also because the girls already have all the other level E skills and are getting bored during bar practice.
Well, the girls already had their giants on strap bar when I started to coach them. We don't use PVC pipe, we prefer gloves. So they have to shift the drifts at least a little. They have now good giants on strap bar. I never sport them when they do these. They do them from tap swings.
I think we should transfer the giants from straps to real bar now. The problem is that I don't know how. The girls are old (12-15 yo) and the tallest is 170 cm tall. During summer I coach them two days a week and their other coach has the other two days. I coach in a different building to the other coach and we have worse equipment. NO PIT BAR! And only one coach.... In the other building there is a pit bar but I'm not with them when the'll have a access to it.
So please help me. Should we start on low bar with bent knees? The older girls are pretty good spotting each other so I thought maybe I should make them help me spotting the giants so there would be a double spot at first... We have very limited number of spotting blocks and they are quite unstable, yikes. I think I need the whole team to keep the blocks stable during spotting.
I would much prefer skip the giants completely and teach other bar skills but the level E requires a giant. Our girls have competed level E without giants and so do almost all the other gyms. But I think we have to take the bull by the horns and start learning the giants on regular bar also because the girls already have all the other level E skills and are getting bored during bar practice.