I have been thinking a lot if I should do a V-Sit or a press handstand mount on beam, because I like them both but am too weak to combine the two (like V-Sit to Press Handstand - can't get my feet through!).
Now that I heard about the "Korbut flip" I was thinking if it was possible to do a...
Today my coach spotted my straddle press handstand on beam. I did it "longways", on the narrow side, I don't know how I should explain that, but like where your hands are so close together that they are touching!
Like this:
He said this is super hard, because your hands are so close together...
DD and her Lvl 2 team were uptraining to get ready for testing, and DD is was the first one to get a perfect straddle press handstand!!!! I have been showing her videos for a while on them, and she has been trying them for a while now, and in front of her coaches she got it perfectly! just had...
I have my standing press handstand. My goals are straddle lever to handstand and pike handstand.
I wanted to work on it 3 times a week. But since some weeks I have groin and hip problems when I try to do a straddle lever.
I am a little bit frustrated now because I can not train the straddle...
My daughter can't seem to put it all together. She can do the straddle press but then has to reposition her hands to get to the handstand. I feel like there may be a simple step she is missing but I have no clue. Any good tutorials or suggestions?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 it 5 presses at state testing and 10 presses at National testing? I thought I read that somewhere, but now I can't seem to find that and I'm not sure if I'm just going crazy or not. Thanks!
My daughter has been playing around with doing a press handstand than then piking through her hands to hold herself up off her floor beam. She saw the American Girl movie and said that was what McKenna does.
She can't do it and I was teasing her telling her that her legs are longer than her...
These are so hard!!
my wrists feel like they are going to break when i try to lean forward enough to get my feet off the ground! :(
I really think I have enough strength to get up, but i can't get my hips over my hands/head.
really, anything, any tips you know would be great. how did you (or...