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  1. Geoffrey Taucer

    Women Casting out of kip

    On a trip with the family this week; ping me next week and I'll take a proper look
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    Parents Tons of athletes left the gym in my area. I don't know why.

    This is a fairly common occurrence, especially if a coach who has been there for a long time left. As NutterButter said, this is not a gossip board. Speculating about the goings-on at various gyms isn't what we're here for. If there was an event that the wider community needs to know about...
  3. Geoffrey Taucer

    Women Casting out of kip

    This progression might help as well then:
  4. Geoffrey Taucer

    Women Casting out of kip

    How's your cast on its own without the kip?
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    Women Casting out of kip

    A video would help. But based on common errors, here's my guess: You need to hit a strong cast-loading shape at the end of the kip; that is, both the feet and shoulders should be in front of the bar as far as you can get them. (My unpopular opinion is that the elbows should be slightly bent for...
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    Anon Bay Area Gyms

    Are any of the California Sports Center locations within your reach? I used to coach there, and I think they're excellent (or at least, were when I was there 10 years ago).
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    Parents Wondering about double layouts

    Hard to tell how much the spotter is doing and how much is her. In this video it looks like the spotter is doing a significant amount. I would defer to her coach. Going purely by this video, if I were her coach I'd probably continue training it but not be any any hard rush to put it in a...
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    Parents Floor music find - had to share

    As a musician and coach, I really hope we're not headed for a future where floor music is just an endless sea of genAI slop. I'm not speaking as a staff member (no rules broken, you're not in trouble or anything), merely as a musician, but let me go on record saying I strongly dislike this, and...
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    Parents Bar at home

    I gotta say this really made me think. On the one hand, I strongly believe that most kids (and adults, for that matter) need to spend more time running and jumping and climbing and falling and picking themselves back up and generally having un-structured fun moving their bodies around, and all...
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    Parents What keeps people in gymnastics?

    This is not a mindset I would encourage in any of my students, but as a kid I was an adrenaline junky who was absolutely in love with the feeling of facing a mortal risk, and the sense of invincibility that comes from living to tell the tale. In retrospect, it's a wonder I survived to adulthood...
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    Parents Bar at home

    I recommend a bar that you can set up in a way to make swinging, or any sort of support work, completely impossible. Something you'd mount on a wall, for example. I think a pull-up bar or stall bar is fine to have, but as a coach I would strongly prefer none of my students do any sort of bar...
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    Women Can't twist

    Alright, so there are three things we'll work in parallel here. And for the sake of simplicity, I'll assume you're twisting left; just reverse everything for a right twist. BACK LATE TWIST: First, we'll look at back 1/2. You want to work that 3/4 back layout with arms somewhere between a...
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    Women Can't twist

    Ok, I'm going to give you some lists of trampoline skills. Start at the top of each list, read down until you see a skill you DO NOT already have down perfectly, confidently, consistently on a trampoline. Basically, tell me what's the first skill on each list that you would NOT be able to nail...
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    Women Can't twist

    Will try to remember to get back to this later today; if you don't hear from me by tonight, ping me a reminder In the meantime, here's an earlier post I made about this: Post in thread 'Setting in back full' https://chalkbucket.com/threads/setting-in-back-full.73349/post-651118 But I have some...
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    Women instant video replay system

    https://github.com/GeoffreyTaucer/coachtools14
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