handstand

I have a question that bothers me since a week now so I thought it might be a good idea to ask you guys :) Is there a certain technique for free standing handstands? DD can rarely hold a free standing handstand for some seconds, but most of the time just falls over after 1 or 2 seconds. She...

I have a few gymnast that are constantly getting almost to handstand and not making it. Ugh I feel like I gave every correction and drill I can think of ... this is important as they need to turn pirouettes, I've tried teaching early turns in the pirouettes ... but my issue is the HANDSTANDS...

Hey guys! I just got my press handstand. 2 days ago in the evening I felt a discomfort in my groin region when I came home from school. I already felt that kind of pain sometimes when I did Round-Offs and Cartwheels, but this time it was a little worse. I think I pulled my hip flexor! It is...

Do any of your HS girls have a blog page with info for recruiters? Any way I can see some examples out there?? Are the links on their club pages or somewhere else? Thanks!

I was wondering: is the straddle press to handstand/pike to handstand more a technique or a strength thing? let's say there is a strong Person who can do a lot of pull ups, push ups, leg raises etc, has a good flexibility and can Support themselves in straddle and L-Sit for 1 minute but Never...

How the heck do you do them? Is it really a practice, practice, practice thing? I am so jealous of people who have a natural "sturdiness"! My poor DD has acquired my terrible center of balance. I did dance for years, and still couldn't pull out anything bigger than a triple turn. o_O

My youngest gymmie is five years old and she is on pre-team. While she is well beyond the other girls in her group in strength and maturity, she doesn't have all of the skills she needs to move up to the next pre-team group yet (she still needs her back hip circle). I suspect that this is mostly...

So DD has been struggling to get kip cast hand stand with a straight body. She has only every tried to do them with a staight body has never even tried a straddle cast UNTIL yesterday when her coach said to try to do straddle up to handstand then giant giant flyaway.] My question is the...

My youngest dd told me she was doing a handstand against the wall at gym that she said it was like sitting on a chair upside down by pushing your bottom down. Any ideas what it is and what purpose of it? Is it a conditioning exercise?

My dd has been having trouble getting her Stalder. She told me last night that lately she has been working on Stoop (Sole???) Circle to Handstand and has not been working on her Stalder. Would this be a replacement or an intermediate step? or would it be going a totally different direction? I...

As a spin off to an ongoing thread about these, I noticed that a US parent posted that her daughter is level 9 and can't do them. I thought they only went up to level 10 and that's when a college scholarship was a real possibility so I'm assuming their level 9/10 is more advanced than our level...

I was sitting at my kitchen table this evening working on my computer while DD was messing around in the family room. I looked up and watched quietly as DD completed her first straddle press handstand. It was a bit jerky but she did it all the way up to vertical. I jumped up and asked her to do...

I have taught this vault since I started coaching and have never had a kid who didn't get it at all until now. I have used all of the terms that I know, all of the different tricks that get most kids there and some drills that should get her there. I've asked a few coaches about it also and none...

Does any one have any tips for cast handstands? I am afraid of leaning over the bar because I feel like I will just fall right over the bar. Any drill/tips/conditioning that I could do? It's one of my goals for the end of November so all advise is appreciated. Thanks in advance! :)

So at gym we have to hold handstands for 2-3 minutes (against a wall) and it doesn't sound hard but it's awful! I struggle so much to hold it for that long. I freak my teammates out when we come down too. They say my face gets paper white and my lips get purple. Is that normal? It doesn't happen...

I remember reading here one of the coaches (maybe IWannaCoach?) saying you don't need to try to turn in a round-off because when you kick your leg you turn automatically (I've tried this and it worked). It seems like this is happening to my DD in her handstand on beam - when she kicks up to...

This stems from what I hope will be a minor bump in the road for DD that is nonetheless causing some frustration and stress. In her gym (and possibly everywhere for all I know), the girls are expected to start their L8 bars routines from the ground, rather than from the springboard. She's having...

Twice since I have been on CB we have had parent skill contest. The submissions were on video and VERY funny. The winner did a full turn on beam. Submissions could be submitted with blurred faces and or shot neck down. Bog and other Mod's should we revive the contest? I volunteer to be a...

Is there a particular age that kids tend to get their press-handstands? They look awfully hard! Is it easier on a beam, or on the floor?

I know this is a "safe" place to share my excitement for my little girl: Little A will be 4 in about a month. She has been doing her first NON-mommy-and-me class at a new gym since we moved, for about five weeks. Her teacher has already commented on her natural abilities, quickness to learn...