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Thank you so much for the detailed response. I'm so glad I can talk to to elite trampoline coaches through Chalk Bucket =). A few things =). You say the cody isn't a strength move, but later on you say to you they are harder than double backs (which I don't even know if I can do, yet.)...

Thanks for all the useful responses! After reading (plenty) of articles, my opinion is that it does stunt your growth but not a very significant amount at all. I have probably stopped growing anyways. So, worrying about whether or not I should continue gymnastics isn't an issue anymore =).

lol, I don't know if you're serious or being sarcastic. The way I took it is that effective gymnasts just happen to be shorter not that gymnastics makes them shorter, just as basketball doesn't make anyone taller. But like I said, I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, lol =).

Fortunately or unfortunately I am finding gymnastics at the older age of 21. From articles I've read, males usually stop growing anywhere at 21 or possibly 22 years of age. If I am still growing in height, I don't want to compromise that by doing too much gymnastics. Does anyone know if...

It's so fun reading such creative responses! The only thing I don't recommend is giving any sort of conditional love to your DD such as one of the comments threatening to take the DD off the team if she kept falling off. I've always thought the best way to teach is to reward the good and work...

Just started! 3 months ago but I think I'm doing pretty good. I'm an old guy, too, I'm 21 years old, but I just started experiencing gymnastics! My Most Notable Skills are... Grass Punch front (No step out yet), Roundoff, any amount of BHs, back tuck. Need to test if I can do whips...

I must be doing something incorrectly. I cannot for the life of me do a Cody on the trampoline. I'm sure this board knows what a Cody is, but in case you don't (or maybe I'm thinking of the wrong name) it's either a back 3/4 to your stomach or a front drop to your stomach, after you hit your...

I guess people just twist the way they wanna twist =). One more question here, though for anybody that is willing to answer... Even though I'm more comfortable twisting right on my Barani and Front Full, I am going to twist to the left on both of those skills from now on, because the rest of...

Hmmm... so doing a 3/4 front with a full twist to my back will create bad habits? Should I just go straight to learning the front full from my feet, then?

OUCH, I just landed on my head doing a 3/4 front with a full twist on my trampoline... When I first did the full twist I twisted left but had no orientation of how I was getting the full twist. Now that I understand my barani twisted right, I did a 3/4 front with a full twist easily. When I...

Finally, at least I'm not the only one with "Barani Confusion!" Luckily as the article suggests, you should learn all skills twisting one way, except the roundoff (which is exactly what I'm doing). But, do you think the article suggests I should have a left handed roundoff (right twist) but...

Thank you guys so much! You see I thought my Barani was a LEFT twist and therefore since I already had one left twisting move I learned ALL of the moves after that as a LEFT twist. I was trying to do my front full by twisting RIGHT and then left making me do a really weird frontflip! I...

I do my Baranis as if I am doing a left handed roundoff without any hands. Am I twisting to my left or to my right? I am asking because I am learning front fulls and I can do them, but the reason I couldn't do them is because I was doing half a twist then the other half I was doing the...

I started delaying my twist, I will post a video later. Tell me if this is correct or not?

I'm not so sure what you mean. I assume by 'feel' you mean to say 'feet', right? So you are saying the height of my head doesn't really get any higher when I jump into my layout because I am not really setting up before pulling my feet around? What do you mean by 'setting up'?

That's great advice, I will definitely try that. Can you give me some of the drills you were referring to before? Thanks =). Also, are those proper layouts? What do I need to do differently? Thanks =).

Yeah I can do a normal layout. My gym doesn't know much about trampolining because it's mostly just floor exercise. I am pretty much self taught on the trampoline, so my layout may have problem as well. I will upload a video of my layout as well. EDIT: The videos right after those fulls...

Someone look at my video? I never post videos of me on the internet (for other reasons). It's my first time doing so, actually.

Video I couldn't find where to edit my post, sometimes it's there and sometimes it's not... I uploaded a video so you guys can see what I'm talking about =). Keep in mind I've only been doing Gymnastics for 3 months now, so I'm still just learning =). 09.30.08_-_77_Fulls.mpg -...

Thanks! Now that I think about it, I think I am trying to twist with my knees! My coach says that I'm not kicking my feet over fast enough. Does this mean I should put more power into my backflip? I know it's hard to give advice without being able to see what I am doing. Maybe I should post...