- Jun 29, 2017
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I have a gymnast who transferred from Xcel Gold at another gym - she got her two 36+ AA's as a Lv.4 and is now training for Lv.6 for the spring 2027 season.
She's fine on L6 vault, beam and floor- but she is barely kipping on bars at the moment... In her Lv.4 season I helped get her kip cast to horizontal by basically spotting a thousand of them- but I don't want to put myself through that again... I am trying to spot less this season, save my back and build some independence in the gymnasts.
I would describe the current state of her kip as sort of symmetrically weak.. It is not that extended in the glide, not that snappy on the leg lift, legs aren't that close to the bar on the situp, then the arms aren't that straight and so she doesn't get that much cast.
This makes me think that simply doing more kips (and maybe some specific strength training) is the path forward because she has already made all these adjustments in her Lv.4 season- it's not like there is a gap in knowledge- but she can only do so many kips before her hands get sore- so then I'm filling that time with kips in the strap bar at the moment.
What would you do? Her flyaway and clear hips are fine- but she doesn't have the means to get into a clear hip at the moment on the unevens. She can do them in straps decently.
She's fine on L6 vault, beam and floor- but she is barely kipping on bars at the moment... In her Lv.4 season I helped get her kip cast to horizontal by basically spotting a thousand of them- but I don't want to put myself through that again... I am trying to spot less this season, save my back and build some independence in the gymnasts.
I would describe the current state of her kip as sort of symmetrically weak.. It is not that extended in the glide, not that snappy on the leg lift, legs aren't that close to the bar on the situp, then the arms aren't that straight and so she doesn't get that much cast.
This makes me think that simply doing more kips (and maybe some specific strength training) is the path forward because she has already made all these adjustments in her Lv.4 season- it's not like there is a gap in knowledge- but she can only do so many kips before her hands get sore- so then I'm filling that time with kips in the strap bar at the moment.
What would you do? Her flyaway and clear hips are fine- but she doesn't have the means to get into a clear hip at the moment on the unevens. She can do them in straps decently.
