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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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    Women instant video replay system

    Happy to share the github repo, if you like. There wasn't so much a particular problem that stopped me from finishing it; it just sorta fell on the back burner. Was fully functional.
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    Women Is there ever a time a gymnast should lose weight?

    Weight is not an accurate indicator of health and fitness in general, and ESPECIALLY for athletes. Muscle is dense and heavy. As for how to navigate body image issues and disordered eating, I think that's a bit above this forum's paygrade; you should talk to your primary doctor. They'll most...
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    Gymnasts Lots of pauses in bar routine

    I'd have to see a video to be sure, but I can take some educated guesses. I'm assuming you're referring to a pause between the kip and the cast, and a pause between the 2BHC and the squaton, correct? If that's the case, you are most likely not finishing your kip and your 2nd BHC in a cast...
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    Off Topic The side hustle/side project/self-promo/hobby thread

    Not really. Fruity front end sort of like wine but a little more citrusy, and a funky aftertaste that's maybe somewhere between an IPA and a strong black tea (been trying to find ways to tone down that aftertaste; I think I just need to use less sugar and a shorter ferment).
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    Off Topic The side hustle/side project/self-promo/hobby thread

    As a side note, I'm not sure what I should properly be calling the drink at this point. I'm not sure if it should be considered wine or beer or something else entirely; taste-wise, it has more in common with wine than it does with beer, but it definitely doesn't taste like the sort of wine you'd...
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    Off Topic The side hustle/side project/self-promo/hobby thread

    Just this past summer I started getting into home-brewing wine/beer -- generally using atypical ingredients rather than the usual grapes/grains/etc. I'm constantly tweaking my recipes, but my current favorite is a fermented blend of hibiscus, pineapple, ginger, orange, and hot pepper (jalapeño...
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    Coaches Hot takes, unpopular opinions, etc regarding technique and/or rules

    I say something similar about kip-cast connections, though I don't phrase it quite like that. I tell my athletes that a kipcast is functionally one skill; once you're past the low levels, you'll never do one part without the other, and if you do a kip that doesn't cast then as far as I'm...
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