Men help us brainstorm: cool safe dance moves to translate from boy's L4

[emorymom]

We have a little project for tomorrow; my 7yo 2nd year L4 son needs to do some dancing with some "cool gymnast moves" -- a list of things that he can do that would be SAFE on a regular floor (not spring, not mats) to incorporate would be great, and cover my preplanning for next spring's talent show.

Obviously, cartwheels, one handed cartwheels, roundoff, he could do all that when he was 4.
Handstand, half turn, step down, handstand, half turn, step down

I'm kinda drawing a blank here. Cool, safe tricks? What have you seen your boys do? He can't walk very far on his hands yet. He can't do circles on the floor.

 

[Galadriel]

Can he press to hand stand?
What about his splits? Or different levers?

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[emorymom]

I thought he could do a press handstand but I'm not sure it's solid. It should be next spring. He does handstand to forward roll to handstand to forward roll to handstand really well.

 

[rd7]

Full turning jump, tuck jump, straddle jump

Lift to handstand from standing straddle with hands on floor?

Y balance

Front support, rear support, candle stick, shoulder roll, forward roll, straight legged forward roll

Russian lever, straddle lever

Hope that helps a bit

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Walkovers are fine if she can do them cleanly

 

[skschlag]

If he has his back extension roll, it looks really cool to do that into the splits.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

A back extension roll on a hard surface may not be a good idea. Especially if he does it correctly (ie with straight arms)

 

[themonkeysmom]

If he has his back extension roll, it looks really cool to do that into the splits.

This is in the new level 6 floor routine. I agree that it looks really cool.

 

[emorymom]

When do boys learn walkovers and aerials? Thanks for all the advice. Keep it coming.

 

[skschlag]

True. Wasn't thinking hard surface..was thinking mats

 

[txgymfan]

Something to knee. Maybe front walkover to knee? Possibly a chest stand (like Alicia does in her beam routine)? Possibly a scale or a Y scale?

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Sorry, when I suggested walkovers I was thinking girls not guys.

 

[emorymom]

I wonder why guys don't do them? Thanks for your advice. For today it was a pretty smooth carpet over a decent pad so it turned out to be a good surface for rolls.

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[Mom2twingymnasts]

My son did a mushroom routine for the talent show this year. We just brought in a panel mat and his mushroom. He started with a standing back tuck and then started on the mushroom. He just did 4 or 5 circles, a few flairs, and then the thing where you circle and move around the mushroom. It was short and simple but really got lots of attention because people hadn't seen a mushroom routine before.