Recent content by Coach S

Wow. In Ontario, our kids only do 3-5 meets per year. National level kids may have a few more depending on if they qualify or not.

A good drill is to practice 3 fast giants and 3 slow giants. That will help to develop the control that you need.

Edouard Iarov is a big fan of using ankle weights for conditioning, even with young boys.

I'd be pissed if the girls used our high-bar as a strap bar. Totally unsafe in my opinion. We generally just spray the bar with water, then apply lots of chalk. Works for the most part.

I'll put some video up on youtube that I took. Weiler's grandson trains at our gym and it was neat seeing him learn it.

If you're naturally a left twister, twist left, if you're right, twist right. Most kids learn a cartwheel/roundoff without first determining their twisting dominance. So I wouldn't take that into consideration as to which way you should twist. Then there are the odd kids who can twist just as...

What kind of training schedule are you? Are you getting enough rest? Your body only gets stronger while it's resting.

I'd also recommend not using your round-off to decide which direction to twist your barani, since a round-off isn't really a twisting skill. Learn you twisting dominance by doing lots of easy skills on a trampoline like swivel hips, rollers, cradles, cruises and so on. If you then determine you...

A big part of the job can just be trying to promote boys gymnastics. Making sure you get results into the local newspapers, planning demonstrations, stuff like that. One of my biggest challenges is just trying to integrate our boys program alongside the uptight women's program in our gym.

That's not a full twist in the video you linked to. You start twisting right, and then twist to the left. I'm guessing you're a left twister but your barani is messed and twists to the right. A common mistake. You should definitely determine your twisting dominance and then go from there...

Sending you kid to camp because you think the substitute coach is not as good? Seems a little whack. What if you son kids a bad coach at camp?

On side note, Weiler came by our gym recently and was giving us tips on how to do his kip. That was pretty cool.

Not one stuck landing on vault, and the silver medalist goes out of bounds, then falls on the 2nd vault. Proof the current COP is messed.