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  1. C

    Close to Kip (Forever!)

    Hi everyone, I'm relatively new here and seeking advice. My daughter will be competing Level 5 this season. She has been very close on her kip for months now but can't seem to get that last inch needed. She can make it with a finger spot but on her own never seems to get quite enough...
  2. bogwoppit

    When will she get her kip???? Very, very funny!

    GOt this of Link Removed. What a hoot, thanks Rick! Link Removed A must see for all parents with this question, and for coaches who have answered it!
  3. G

    Coaches Straight Arm Kip Drills

    Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone knew any good drills for kips and keeping the arms straight. I have to gymansts who have their kips but cant seem to keep their arms straight. I have told them to shift their wrists faster to the top of the bar, but that still doesnt seem to work. Any...
  4. N

    How do you set kids up when learning kip?

    My question for coaches out there (and anyone else who knows) is regarding the set up of the bar when a kid is first learning kip. How close should they stand to the bar and how high should the bar be? I'm asking because DD has had 2 coaches do it different ways and one way works really well...
  5. MaryA

    Kip bar? Worth it or not?

    A girl who recently quit gym is advertising her "junior kip bar" on the buliten board. She's asking $230 for it (including the mat and board for underneath). Of course, my daughter is DYING to get it. I'm thinking that my other daughter could also use it as a ballet bar and that we could...
  6. C

    Coaches Quickest time for getting kip

    I decided to start teaching my new level 5 boys kip drills last night. I told them it might take them up to 18 months to get their kip. Would be lots and lots of practising the drills, before they got it. So in 25 mins I taught: Glide swings (they had never done these before) leg lifts leg...
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  7. L

    Big Milestone - DD Made Kip Tonight at Practice

    For anyone who has seen my posts, DD has been struggling with her kip since we decided to go JO instead of Prep Opt last June. It was a big decision to quit swim team and become a "full-time gymnast" as she calls it. Well, she was supposed to go into level 5 at the end of the summer, but the...
  8. N

    Another kip question - aren't you sick of those

    DD has started working on her kip and she is close, yet so far from getting it alone if that makes any sense. She can do it quite well with just a one hand spot to help her at the very end with the kipping part. The coach said she's barely touching her. Yet when she tries it by herself she...
  9. All Chalked Up

    I got my Kip!!!!

    Just want to share my excitement over this kip! I've been working on it so, so, SOOOOO hard for the last year so I'm really excited that I finally got it! The HC doesn't know yet, so me and my other coach decided it would be funny if she walked in and saw me doing a bunch of kips on Tuesday :P...
  10. Geoffrey Taucer

    Glide kip from free hip/castaway

    I have a couple of girls who struggle to keep their feet from hitting the floor when kipping out of a free hip. Is this purely a strength issue, or is there a technical fix for it as well?
  11. E

    Home conditioning for glide kip

    Currently i am working on the glide kip at gym, but the one coach who could spot me has now hurt her back( and i only had her 1x a week anyway) so although i can work on getting my glides perfect i cant actually work on the kip part, i have a chin up bar at home and some ankle weight and would...
  12. S

    kip!

    I finally got my kip!!! I am SO happy! If anyone has any stories of skills they struggled with but finally got, post below I would love to read them!
  13. F

    straight armed kip?

    i need to do a straight armed kip. yesterday i did almost all my kips perfectly, and did an amazing bar routine. today, i could only do a kip with straight arms once today. it wasn't even during a routine either. is there anything i can do to do it with perfectly straight arms? i'm in level 5...
  14. C

    Kip Drills or Program

    I am starting my pre teamers on kips soon. Any good kip drills out there that coaches or others are willing to share? I want to have a portion focusing on the glide swing. Thanks :)
  15. fishchimes

    Glide/Long hang kip cast

    My kips have improved a LOT over the past couple of months, but the problem is, I'll do a nice straight arm kip, and then... nothing. I'm just on the bar. Or worse, my hips won't even be all the way on the bar and I'll kind plop down on the bar after the kip (not possible to cast out of that). I...
  16. L

    How to get the kip??

    Hi, DD started training for level 5 a little less than 2 months ago. Before that she was in Prep Opt Novice - and didn't need to do a kip for the bar routine. Now she does and she is getting a little frustrated that she hasn't gotten it yet. She said this morning she probably won't be ready...
  17. B

    Teaching a kip series

    I am at the stage of getting my gymnasts to learn a kip series of for example 3 kips in a row - ready to put a kip after a clear hip circle. Any help would be greatly appreciated please. From how it should be done and positions to drills to get it right etc... Many thanks
  18. L

    Using grips before kip of after?

    Hi all! This question has been in my mind for quite some time. Do you prefer using grips while first learning your kip, or after you make your kip and just adjust to using them? I am clueless on what to do. I spoke with several coaches asking them their opinions, but they all either have...
  19. soggysarah

    Kip??

    Ok i just cant get my kip!! i get the glid and then when i have to get my toes to the bar they just dont get up and i fall from them...im 15 helP!!!!!!!!!!:confused:
  20. G

    Cartwheel on beam and Kip

    I am trying to move up and stay in level five but I can't seem to get my cartwheel on the beam. I have been trying on floor beams and low beams and making them but as soon as I go a little higher I don make it no matter how much I want to. The thing that really frustrates me is that I used to...

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