Coaches Front Handspring Front Handspring Vault Help

[xcelerate]

I have a gymnast who is really wanting to learn a front handspring onto the board and either a front handspring or round off onto the table (and then twisting off later). No one at my gym has ever coached one of these so I’m wondering if anyone has any drills to help teach this vault.

She has one of the most gorgeous front handsprings on floor and we’ve done some “timers” (front handspring onto the board and then straight jump onto a mat stack turned sideways) and they’re pretty good but whenever she tries to add either a front handspring or round-off everything goes wacky. She’s only been working them for a week though!

Any help is appreciated!!!

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

There's a reason these vaults are so rare; in fact, I'd probably wait until the new code comes out before even training them, because I would not be at all surprised if they get removed (though I've been saying that for at least three codes now, and they're still there).

That said, here's how I'd go about it:

I'd go FHS onto springbord, belly flop on a high mat stack. Then FHS, punch to handstand on a high mat stack. Then FHS-bounder to a high mat stack.

Then transfer the whole thing to the table with a mat stack behind it and an 8-inch mat on top of it (maybe skip the belly flop).

Note that I've never actually taught this vault; I'm mainly drawing from progressions I've used for FHS-FLO on floor

 

[xcelerate]

Thank you! She’s an xcel Diamond/Sapphire and she’s graduating before the new xcel code comes out so thankfully we’re dodging a bullet in that area!