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    MAG High Bar - Thumbs Around The Bar?

    Hi, I had a few questions about skills on high bar: 1. When you do a Higgins into eagle grip do you try to grasp the bar with your thumb around? (I've seen it done both with thumbs and without all the way up to elite and wondered which is more commonly taught/safer) 2. Do you do eagle grip...
  2. Gymnastbecki

    WAG Low bar to high bar flight

    Recently I learnt a new move on bars where I do a straddle undershoot catch the high bar, I think it's also know as a sole circle catch the high bar. I'm just wondering what is the proper name for this flight element? And also I know some gymnasts do it with a pike undershoot catch! What is...
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    Daisharin Tetsubo-kun Horizontal Bar Gymnast Game

    This looks like a wonderful waste of money....and fun; so I had to get one: You can find other YouTube demonstrations as well. Website is here. I got it cheaper on eBay- $72 with free shipping. Love the natural tap action on it. I'm wondering if it might be a fun teaching tool as well...
  4. Gymnast_Tor

    WAG Jump to High Bar? jump vs. fall

    I am coming up to my 4th Xcel Silver competition and I had a simplified bar routine but now it is pullover, cast back hip circle, cast squat on, jump to high bar, 3 tap swings, 1/2 turn dismount. I recently got over my jump to high bar mental block, but now when I jump, I just fall to it and...
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    Help with high bar kip?

    Can you give me some tips on how to get my high bar kip? I can do it on low bar, but it feels so weird on high bar, I just can't get it. Maybe the bars are the wrong setting?
  6. Libby's gym mom

    Catching high bar

    My dd is 7 , 8 next May . Question is when does my dd need this skill for as she has a fear problem . Would it be next October for level 5s , sorry I'm still learning x
  7. D

    Afraid of doing a back hip on high bar...

    For some reason, I am afraid of doing a back hip circle on the high bar in fear I will fall. Any tips? I need to do this in L4...:(
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    High bar kip help?...

    How do you get a high bar kip? I have it on low bar but not high bar.
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    MAG High Bar Straps

    I need to get straps for my son to learn giants, but he is small and his coach says he needs a 23 or a 23.5. The smallest I can find is 24.5. Any ideas (besides making my own)??
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    MAG Best high bar grips for high school?

    I need help in deciding what type of grips to use for high bar. I'm 16 and I'm in highschool gymnastics. I've already decided that I'm going to most likely buy buckled grips, but I've narrowed my choices down to the US glove and reichel sport. However, I don't know the difference between the...
  11. Becauseisaid

    WAG Fear of Jumping to the High Bar

    DD(9 yo) has had a mental block regarding jumping to the high bar for several months now. I assume this is a mental block because she can squat on and jump off the single rail with no issues. She can squat on and balance herself on the low bar and single rail all day. She doesn't seem to have...
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    Coaches Afraid of jumping to high bar...

    One of my level 4s is terrified of jumping o the high bar and catching. She's done: 1. Squat on jump touch (she'll jump and touch no matter how far/close the bars are) 2. Squat on, stand up, reach to hollow stand holding high bar 3. Jump from block and catch the bar. Etc... She's says she is...
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    WAG Level 9 high Bar Bonus (CV)

    Level 9 on high bar: Kip cast HS, free-hip, right into a double back ... that's bonus right? is it .10?
  14. LIGYMMOM

    Parents And the high bar adventure begins...

    DD had one more level 4 skill to get, the kip to the high bar, and tonight she got it! I'm so happy for her and she was excited. Of course I didn't see it as (if you caught my previous thread), I'm not allowed to watch! But I do look forward to seeing her new routines at meets with my camera...
  15. GymMom&Coach

    Coaches high bar nerves (L4)

    A L4 of mine who has all of her bar skills, recently is terrified of jumping to the high bar. (after a stand in coach dident catch her when she clearly dident have the time to catch the bar (she had her shoulders way to far over in her squat on) every time she comes to my bar to practice...
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    MAG High bar grips for super small kiddo

    I am in need of some grips for my kiddo....the coach said we might need to have them made because he has super duper tiny hands. He's moving his giants off strap bar to the regular bar and thus needs the grips unless we can't find any that will fit. When I say tiny hands I am not...
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    MAG Funny yet painful high bar mistake :)

    I was at my meet at All American meet and once we got on high bar something funny happened. First of all I forgot my grips so I did a high bar routine with out grips (first in like 2 years) and then I did a kip cast handstand and I forgot to shift my wrists so I got in the handstand and came...
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    WAG High bar vs. Low bar fear

    Is it legitimate to be able to do a skill nicely on the low bar, but be afraid of it to the point where you cannot do it on the high bar? How can you work through such a fear? I assume it is a bit of a numbers game, because it is a new skill. Any experience or thoughts?!?! Time is ticking...
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    MAG Slippery Mens High Bar

    Hi everyone, the gym where I train has a lot of recreational non-gymnast types (mostly kids), they use the high bar for doing pull ups and also as a strap bar, consequently it's pretty slippery. So slippery that even plain giants don't feel safe. Girls put honey and sugar and water and...
  20. txgymfan

    LAST SPOILER Womens Beam, Floor, Mens High Bar, PBars POST SPOILERS HERE

    Beam Gabby and Aly Floor Aly and Jordyn High Bar John Horton and Danell P Bars I'm really hoping for an individual medal for the US gymnasts (espically Aly). Once again I will be checking for results online late in the day. Good Luck to all and No Falls Please!

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