drills

When I do my Rudy(1.5 twisting front layout), I'm dropping my shoulder, so I don't go very high. I've been trying to correct this for about a month and I can't make myself correct it. Do you guys have a drill to fix this?

Hey guys, So a couple of the girls at our gym and I have been working on Bails, Geingers,and Yaegers (is that spelled right?) on bars. I was wondering if anyone would like to share what drills they do at their gyms to prepare themselves to better learn the skills. I also wanted to know if anyone...

I know we had a recent tread about ariels but we got on the discussion of lifts and I do not need help with that. I am doing privates with a little girl who wants to learn an ariel. She has a great cartwheel and great power. We have been doing dive cartwheels off a folded panel, off a wedge, and...

PLEASE help! I am in desprate need of ANY amazing drills or ideas to get my level 3's their backward rolls with straight arms.. Not one of my girls seems close, even my daughter who is 4 and has every L4 skill, is struggling with this! ANY tips and advice would be a great help! Thanks!

Hi, I am working on my roundoff and my snap down is really weak. Is there any drill or conditioning exercise that I can do at home to improve my snap down? In the gym we train snapping down a folded mat but I don't seem to be able to push myself off the mat using my chest. Any suggestion...

Looking for any exercises to do at home for my almost-7-year-old DD for bent elbows. She is extremely stong - huge arm muscles - but always has bent elbows on handstands, back handspring, and bars. Coach mentioned that it could be that she is so strong in her biceps that she has always relied...

I am currently working on my front and back tucks and I was wondering what some drills I could do were.My main reason to get this is competitive cheer so wrap arounds (for back tuck) are preffered by my cheer coach. I go to open gym an hour every saturday and this is my main time to work on it...

My college gymnastics club has been going pretty well lately, but we have one who we have run into a challenge with. He's 6'4", very strong, very into parkour and such. He learned a front tuck and standing back tuck, both above my head height in about an hour last year, and perfected them within...

Hey! I coach a developmental group for 3 and 4 year olds and I want to start teaching them round-offs. However most of the drills I know wouldn't work because they are too little or just don't have enough body awareness due to their age. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for drills I...

We've all had floppy kids, havent we? I log bounce the little ones to help them understand tightness, but sometimes it's an older kid (especially after a growth spurt) who understands the concept, but just can't make everything squeeze at once. The one I'm thinking of right now is not strong...

I invented the "Car Wash" this past week when we had our open gym. I saw a Theraband hanging over a beam and a light went off in my head! http://youtu.be/JbCBQ0wR9ME http://coachcasie.blogspot.com/2011/12/open-gym-not-just-for-kids.html

Hi All, This site seems to have some very good articles about basic tumbling tumblingdrills.com does anyone know of any other site that has articles about tumbling drills? kind regards, Crisium

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I have a child that came from a anoother gym who is deathly afraid of flyaways. As of right now she is doing for level 7 on high bar a giant into a hop 1.2 turn into a front flyaway. I know this in cures an extra swing deduction. I am hoping to teach her the front where she would swing down...

You know how you watch those videos with all those great drills and an average-or-bigger dude coach and a teeny little 8 year old who basically needs to stay tight and ride the skill? If you relate to those, I am happy for you. I am not that coach. Those are not my athletes. And this is not...

hi all, my gymnasts need to be able to do a cast to horizontal (most of them can not) does anyone have any good drills to improve their casts that they want to share??? please Thanks =)

My level 6 boys are struggling with high bar, because none of them can get that reverse-grip cast-over to give them enough swing for the next few skills. So I'm looking for two things: 1) What are some strength exercises that specifically target this movement? Or is there a specific...

Alyssa Moore’s tight body drill, and variations thereof | Apex Technical Corner For the first time in far too long, I've updated my blog. This post details some drills I've found to be spectacularly useful in training young gymnasts. Any thoughts, critiques, discussion, etc would be much...

A lot of our level six's are struggling with their layout fly-away dismounts on bars. We are not teaching them a tucked fly-away, but going straight to the layout. Does anybody have any good drills or technique suggestions for teaching a layout fly-away. We currently have them do a lot of...

Hi all! I'm a retired competitive swimmer (but still mostly in shape), 5'7"/138lb, and brand new to gymnastics. I'm taking an adult gym class that meets once a week, and I've noticed that whenever I go on bars, I have this awful tendency to bend my arms like crazy. I can keep them straight...