Recent content by elle

I'm in Xcel Silver and since we're already deciding what we're going to compete, we were talking about floor skills the other day. Most of the girls in my group can do a roundoff back handspring with a light spot, but some are still working roundoff-stop. One of the girls in my group who is...

When I started wearing grips, I started right off the bat with dowel, just so I wouldn't have to go through the ordeal of using palm grips and then have to get used to dowel grips. I got mine from a company called Gynnastica I think? Dowel grips are hard to get used to, but what I did is for...

I'm in Xcel Silver for the summer, and training most of my gold skills (cartwheel on beam, kip, front handspring vault, etc.) and the one thing that was holding me back was my roundoff-back handspring. Regardless of whether I'm competing gold this year or not, it would be totally embarassing to...

I'm in Xcel Silver, working on Gold. The main thing I need to get to move up is my glide kip, but it feels almost impossible! One of my coaches said it's mostly my abs that aren't strong enough (and I've been conditioning every day at home to try and improve that) and another coach said that my...