drills

We started over on vault after states (early April). We've worked sprinting, longer hurdles and preflight angle a lot. I've been asking them to do handstand hops to their backs over the table (hands on table, pop to handstand on mat higher than table, fall to back) a lot. Some of them are...

We worked on kip drills last night and I had them do some stem rises on our preschool bars. I had them show me a table top position, then bent their knees and shoot up to a front support on the high bar. My question is, was I wrong to have them start in the table top position? Should I have...

The gymnast hangs on the high bar with her body facing the low bar. She swings several times while twisting her hips. Then she swings forward, lets go of the bar and the spotters move her body so she is now in a handstand on the low bar with her backside to the high bar. And if you can...

Hey guys, I recently started coaching(well not so recently, like 7 months ago.anyways:)) and my level 2's are starting to work on stride circles. I was wondering if anyone has any good drills or recommendations for teaching them. I have never taught this skill and kind of lost on how to guide my...

I'm starting a new trampoline class- all kids are beginners but a pretty wide range of beginner. With only 1 trampoline, it's hard to keep the kids busy during waiting periods. I've taught trampoline before, but as part of a T&T program, so could add tumbling drills into the mix for off-tramp...

Once my nose/cheekbone have healed & I'm allowed to start training for real, my coach wants me to do piked tsuk instead of tuck to avoid aforementioned injury. Getting good height was something I struggled with tucked tsuk, and where pike rotates slower I know it will need even more height to...

The L7s and L8s did a new drill last night and since it was new, I was wondering if someone could clue me in to what it helps? The girls stood on the high end of a wedge mat. They then did a standing back tuck and immediately went into a backward roll when they landed. At first I thought it...

my DD is working on press handstands. she can press into it from standind easily and can hold a straddle support for about 30-40 seconds. but she can't press out of it! It seems she just can't lift and put her body up! DD can do about 15 leg lifts on a free hanging bar, on stall bars maybe 5...

I will be out of the gym until summertime, but I will be able to keep my skills I was working on because my muscle memory for those skills has lasted several years without a gym. But I want to work on new skills without doing the actual skill so I dont hurt myself. What are some drills/condition...

Hi! I have good front splits (oversplits of about 4-5 inches) and also my middle split as well as great shoulder and back flexibility. I was wondering what you need to be able to hold your leg up when you are in a bridge and going to do a walkover. Or if you do a scale and hold your leg up in...

My youngest dd is 4 sessions into her development class, on bars they usually do pullovers into front support and then cast a few times before doing a forward roll over the bar (dd can now do a chin up with a light spot and can now go backwards other the bar to front support without help)...

So I am an xcel gold gymnast and my two tumbling passes are round-off back handspring and front tuck. These don't fit the requirements for floor but I am a horrible tumbler so my coach allows me to compete because I have the requirements for all other events. I used to be able to do these passes...

I love to start my classes with a fun warm up and I'm looking for some new ideas! Would love your help! :]

Any help would be greatly appreciated. ;)

I am currently trying to get my handspring full on vault. I can do a handspring pretty well beside the fact that my block isn't very good! My coach told me if i can learn to block better i would actually be able to do the full twist out of it, but I can't seem to get myself to block! Is this...

Lately I've been teaching "off-sites." Our gym sends coaches to community centers around the area to teach classes and we generally bring our own equipment. My classes are parent-tot, preschool, kindergarten, and youth. I really want the little ones to learn their tuck, pike, straddle, lunge...

Any good ideas/drills for getting this skill on floor?

Can I get some good ideas for teaching the regrasp of the bar to keep from peeling off on a kip that is coming out of a handstand? I have had her do it in slow motion, but she can't get it coming down fast. I know that some kids have no issue with this and some kids do. I'm working with a very...

teaching a tsuk layout but my kid keeps doing a open pike ... any tips for getting her from that shape to a layout (or drills)

Any great freehip drills out there that DONT require a coach monitoring them 24/7? My kids have a bar station on their own, and I spot freehips/freehip hands on the other bar (still within view, dont worry). We don't need basic stuff - they all go around to horizontal or higher, good shapes...