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She's bending her legs and moves her head from chin stretched out to a chin tucked in position. Either one will make the skill harder to do.......Does it look like this?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g7wcdse5ajk841d/kopio_videosta_front_handspring-2QI6xjI8WM0_fmt18.mp4
This is one of my gymnasts who is having very hard time with front handspring. She's been practicing it for a year now and I can't see too much of improvement. All the others are getting there but she keeps having shoulder angle, leaning too far and having tucked hips and bent knees. I have spotted her for ages and we have done all kind of drills. I know she will get it but we are getting a bit frustrated because this is the only skill holding her back. A kip came easily for her but her FHS looks worse than many of my rec students. I can see what she does wrong and I know there is no magic words or drills to improve it but maybe some other coaches would want to say a word.
Tell her it's common and admirable for kids to want to do a skill so badly that they spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to do it before they've been given a chance to learn from their coach. Then have her explain the skill to you as if she were the coach and you the student. You want her to do this with no concern for anything you have told her, so have her forget about your corrections and just to focus on what she feels is important. If she won't commit to an explanation of the skill you need to ask her what she believes are the important things she feels she has to do in order to make it from her hands to her feet.Thank you BlaiBob and Iwannacaoch!
She isn't a rec kid, she's a level B (pretty much like level 3 in US) and has all the other skills but this to move up to the next level. I wouldn't say it's her shoulder strength, because she can do almost 10 chin ups, a great back extension roll, a kip etc. There's many kids much weaker in this group who can FHS. She just doesn't get this skill. I think it is her mind model of the skill like IWC said. How can I change it?
If she wasn't part of a big group I wouldn't made her do the skill by herself for a little while but she has to because we don't have many spotters and we have to have some stations they do by themselves. When I spot her I push her shoulders to the opposite direction and that usually causes a pretty nice try with straight knees. I have even taught other kids to place their hands on her shoulders when she blocks and that helps a little but of course they are kids and usually miss the timing.
She does the same mistakes when we do front handsprings from two feet on tramp. She does ok as long as I only make her do a handstand flat back but.
What drills should I do with her? We do handstand hops every practice. We do handstand forward rolls. We do handstand hops - flat backs. We do them slow motion of a spotting block. We do quick handstand kicking the wall behind. We do handstand holds.
Thanks somekiwichic.....i did not know how to post this stuff!!
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