Hello, I'm wondering what the experience of national congress is like. My gym is currently planning on paying for me and several of our other coaches to attend congress as its in our state this year. I've never been, but have been coaching since 2014 and currently have no goals of becoming a...
Hi fellow coaches, this is my first full year coaching Xcel and I have some questions about teaching twisting vaults for Xcel Platinum and Diamond. The other coaches at my gym don't have experience coaching these vaults either, so I've come here looking for some more information at the very...
These are a couple questions that I haven't found a lot of information on anywhere.
1. I need to wear orthotics in my shoes for plantar fasciitis and I've tried several varieties and found that they actually make the tendon on the bottom of my foot more sore rather than less. I was wondering if...
In static splits and leaping it's ideal to have the feet slightly turned out. However, feet naturally turn-in when in my splits and I was wondering what could be causing this. This has been happening for about a year, prior to which I could turn my feet out in the splits. I'm wondering if a...
I'm emotionally attached to my old leotards and don't want to give them away even though I never wear them because they're uncomfortable. Does this happen to anyone else?
I have a lot of ankle issues (I'm working on getting them taken care of), so I'm looking for cardio exercises that are low or completely non-impact (preferred) on the ankles to keep my cardio ability up. Any suggestions?
When I do my giant blind my posting arm shifts outward. It's kinda difficult to explain, but instead of leaving my arm in one position it slides out away from my body. I have a video of a whole bunch of my blinds here: click here. Watch my right arm as a I turn to see what I mean.
What I'd like...
My dream skill on bars is a shaposh; however, I don't have a coach available. I'm on my university's club gymnastics team and we unfortunately don't have a coach.
I have a consistent free hip to handstand, so I was wondering how hard it is to learn the throw technique for a shaposh? I've seen it...
Does anyone have any tips that have helped gymnasts get over a fear of letting go of the bar for flyaways? Other than just making them do it of course.
Letting go from a tap swing or a super slowed down giant isn't scary, but as soon as I swing faster I can't make myself let go.
This is...
Just thought I'd get some discussion going on. :)
What new skills are you guys working on?
I'm trying to get my back twisting on floor back, a handspring tuck series on beam, bail handstand on bars, shaposh drills on bars, and a layout yurchenko. There's others, but lets leave it at that for now.
Does anyone know of an ankle brace that keeps the ankle relatively immobilized?
From a bit of research I've found its difficult to do this with ankle braces, so I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this.
I know that taping works best, but I've gone through nearly 80 rolls of...
Today was my first time vaulting in 18 months since I injured my ankle and while I'm a little sore from it (and trying a little tumbling, I made a front handspring, layout, layout too) I couldn't be more excited! I'm missing the last season I could compete in JO, but I'm still happy.
If anyone...
Recently I've been experiencing some pain in my right shin. It feels like the muscles are all contracting in the front of my leg from the top of my ankle/foot to my knee. Its gone from being a couple times a day thing to near constant and makes it rather uncomfortable to walk. I was wondering if...
I'm having a major fear of tap half turns (the old level 5 dismount only higher) right now at gymnastics. Up until about a month ago I had a tap half to handstand, but after one turn in which my body didn't turn for the blind they've been progressively getting worse and I'm at the the point now...