Coaches Kips

[WavyNavy8]

This is only my second year coaching USAG 4. So forgive me.

I have gymnast who will NOT do a straight arm Kip for me. Mom says she’s done it at clinics and other coaches in the gym who have worked with her in privates and semi privates, said she’s been very close

For me it’s consistently the belly drag. Since July.

What am I doing wrong?
What am I saying wrong?

I give all the corrections and she’ll just look at me and smile and walk away. I’ve been tried to ask her to repeat what I said and she will, but won’t implement it.

 

[jgymnastics!]

I’m both a gymnast and coach (head of my gyms preteam). The best technique for getting a kid to straight arm kip is drill, just saying corrections out loud rarely have an impact in my experience. A combination of Forster bar drills, spotting kips and the sit up drill on a bar (pushing off a mat) for the end of the kip is what I found to work best.

 

[supernicegymmom]

It’s best you maybe try spotting her for a few kips very heavily so she can do it with straight arms easily, every turn in bars spot her less and less until she can finally do it by herself. This may work for you because I also used to have a level 3 like this when I used to coach. Hope this helps!