technique

Yesterday DD mentioned that her legs were taped together for preacticing standing BHS. Is this a common practice? it seemed a bit odd to me!

Haven't posted in awhile, curious if you guys can help me out. My daughter wants a copy of what she calls "the book"....the book that all the coaches pull out and study to see if she is doing the routines exactly the way they should be done. She also wanted me to find out if there is a series...

Hey guys, I'm working on my bail for level 9 and I was wondering what the advantage of letting go one hand at a time is. Right now I'm letting go of both hands at the same time, but my coach is trying to get me to let go one at a time. I dont really understand it. What is the advantage of...

I was wondering if anyone had a good collection of photos showing good technique in a range of gymnastics skills. I coach at a small club with lower level gymnasts. I have put a few pictures up of split jumps etc which have proved to be helpful. I would like pictures that can be printed off into...

I'm a first-year head coach getting ready to start the high school season. I assistant coached last year, and the girls seemed very receptive to my comments and made some amazing progress in a very short period of time (the head coach was pretty useless in terms of technique). In general, I'm...

My dd is competing level 4 this year. She can complete her front hip circle almost every time, but it is not "pretty". She can not do it with straight arms and most of the time ends up with the bar high up on her chest at the completion, making it difficult to connect to a cast. Her coach has...

So.. I guess this is more of a vent than anything... but if any suggestions arise, I would love to hear them. I know I can teach a straddle back. I know I can spot them. However, I have a string of girls who are having a heck of a time doing them to handstand... I got one who is doing them...

I am just learning the front arial, and though I have almost have it already, I think that better form and technique would take some of the emphasis of of trying to force it. You know what I mean... when you have a trick down to a science, it takes less strength than trying to just force it out...

I have been studying Tkatchev techniques lately, and I want to run some thoughts by the other coaches out there. I have not taught or done this skill myself (other than bounce bar drills). Feel free to provide feedback on any or all of this. The men's Tkatchev technique has an exaggerated...

This should be so obvious - but after learning the variations of who does walkovers with which leg it's suddenly not ... Is there a 'rule' about which leg to use?? Ie: I always thought that whatever leg you used to kick up, you should use the other to step down. But is that right or does it even...

I've been co-coaching with a muscular male gymnastics coach who has recently left me to coach the team by myself. As a 5' 2" 125lbs female coach, I can't just pick up the girls and flip them over like he could. A few of the gymnasts are taller and weigh more than I do. Do you know of any good...

So when I'm doing some strength at home, I often get tired and feel like stopping. Well, today I got really scared while trying to watch a horror/suspense anime (key word being "trying"-- nothing had even happened yet lol). Then I thought, hey, I could get a lot of leg lifts out of that feeling...

Clarification: For Front Salto Tumbling (not fronthandspring) I'm a bit old school and trying to keep up with the times. So I need some edu-ma-cation, clarification here. Again, couldn't find anything definitive in any previous posts about this so posting a new thread. I've been to a few...

What exactly is the tap on a front giant? The way I learned it was to hit a tight arch at the bottom and then hollow on the way up, though when compared to a back giant, it seems like the reverse would make more sense. Why does this tap work?

The level 5 men's vault is a front tuck (no vault table) off a spring board with an arms circle that ends below shoulder height. How does this relate to a front tuck on floor? While I do not teach an arm circle for a front tuck on floor I have seen some gyms that do. What are the advantages...

This is basically an offshoot of a side discussion we were having in the vault thread. I'd like to leave this fairly open; we can discuss handpsrings, tucks, layouts, doubles, whatever. I'll post my thoughts/philosophies later, when I have a bit more time to write them up.

Block is an important part of so many skills. Most notably, handspring vaults and variations thereof. I've tried coaching a block in several ways, and discussed it with many other coaches, and the conclusion I've come to seems to dissagree with the way many coaches teach it. I thought this...

I've seen this skill taught in several different ways, and I wanted to see if we could get a discussion going about the merits of the various techniques. Some coaches coach a hollow front layout. I'm not entirely sure why. I coach a heel-drive front layout; I coach it not as the forwards...