Aero
Coach
- Jan 1, 2014
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Hi friends! I'm starting to teach one of my girls how to do a flyaway. She's the only one who can kip so far, so I feel she is ready. We are going through the beginning drills, such as candle flips, sighting something with the eyes and tapping to that spot, getting her toes to that visual marker before releasing the bar, as well as slow, fully spotted, step by step turns through the skill so she can get a feel for the sensations involved, as well as a good idea of the body shapes involved. She is also good at tapping high and releasing at the apex of her swing so she lands on her back in the foam pit in a hollow shape (no flip), and I have thrown her into candle flips that she can land on an 8" mat in the pit.
These drills all have one thing in common: they all utilize hollow position with straight legs (candle). I have not introduced tucking into anything yet. I need some opinions here. Should I stay this course? Or should I start introducing a tuck position into the drills? Or should I have her cross train both (do every other turn in the other position)? What have you done in the past? What is your reasoning behind your methods and decision?
I feel I should cross train both, because eventually she will be doing double tucked flyaways, so even if she never competes a single tucked flyaway (doing the layout instead), it will still be valuable to teach it in the tucked position for this eventual progression. This also leads me to wonder when it would be appropriate to teach this skill in the piked position.
On a side note, have any of you ever taught a reverse flyway? What would be the situation or criteria for teaching the reverse version over the standard flyaway and it's eventual double equivalent, the Mercer (which is a D skill in FIG, compared to the standard backward double tucked flyaway, which is only a B)?
One more thing: do you have any other great drills for flyaways that she can progress to from the point she's at now? I feel like she has a decent understanding of the skill, as well as the sensation of flipping backwards while travelling forwards (gainer), but are there any other good intermediate steps before having her actually try it in its entirety?
I'm looking forward to hearing some great responses from all you veterans out there!
These drills all have one thing in common: they all utilize hollow position with straight legs (candle). I have not introduced tucking into anything yet. I need some opinions here. Should I stay this course? Or should I start introducing a tuck position into the drills? Or should I have her cross train both (do every other turn in the other position)? What have you done in the past? What is your reasoning behind your methods and decision?
I feel I should cross train both, because eventually she will be doing double tucked flyaways, so even if she never competes a single tucked flyaway (doing the layout instead), it will still be valuable to teach it in the tucked position for this eventual progression. This also leads me to wonder when it would be appropriate to teach this skill in the piked position.
On a side note, have any of you ever taught a reverse flyway? What would be the situation or criteria for teaching the reverse version over the standard flyaway and it's eventual double equivalent, the Mercer (which is a D skill in FIG, compared to the standard backward double tucked flyaway, which is only a B)?
One more thing: do you have any other great drills for flyaways that she can progress to from the point she's at now? I feel like she has a decent understanding of the skill, as well as the sensation of flipping backwards while travelling forwards (gainer), but are there any other good intermediate steps before having her actually try it in its entirety?
I'm looking forward to hearing some great responses from all you veterans out there!