Recent content by CoachAl

Yes, we did both of these numerous times. The RO jump back to a porta pit is her favorite. I started by re-teaching the ro, and re-teaching a bhs, and have slowly been working drills to put the two together. She won't even connect it on the tumble track into the pit mat. I am trying my best...

endurance endurance endurance! We do an endurance cardio circuit for warm-ups at our gym. It consists of 15 mins of obstacle courses or stations. I try to set it up to incorporate a variety of things such as blocks, frog jumps, push up walks, stalder walks on beam (straddle the beam and walk...

At our gym we have a gymnast who has recently lost her round-off bhs. She can still do a round-off correctly and has a beautiful standing bhs but won't connect the skills. Recently she has been scheduling private lessons with me and I am stuck. I have tried everything that I can think of...

well they have all improved a TON. but i they still have a long ways to go. I wrote up a list of conditioning activities to be doing at home- and i can tell you exactly which kids are doing them and which kids aren't. Part of the problem is I coach at a YMCA where attitudes of parents and...

She is however getting a deduction for it. She needs to use that power to do a rebound and then stick. With a front handspring her goal is someday to be doing front handspring front tucks, and front layouts and much much more. So it is great that her front handspring is powerful, but she...

From a coaches perspective- I don't see a problem. She is young yet so let her try many sports. As long as she is still enjoying everything she does, and isn't getting to run down. However- be aware that as she progresses in school, sports, and age every aspect of her life is going to become...

I work alot of glides over and over again. If they don't have a good glide than they wont be able to kip. I also do a drill where I hold their feet and do three glides and then on the 3rd they have to pop/pull to a front support (similar to an uprise I guess) It teaches the feeling of a pull...

I coach at a tiny tiny tiny gym. We have one floor stip, one tumbling strip. one single bar. one set of duals. 2 high beams, 1 low fat beam, 1 low beam. We have to set up our vault in another gym, and we only get to use it once a week, this is also wher we set up our full floor (no springs-i...

Oh my. I coach level 5 and all 13 of my girls look just like you right now. I agree with just about everyone else... your slowing down work the arm circle you need to block and hollow. work sprinting drills, board hits, block drills, and handstand flat backs. It also looks like the table...