Parents Picture/ video guide to skills

[FifiMum]

Does anyone have a great visual resource that shows the skills for young gymnasts? I don't know many of the correct names of the things my son does in his class and 'that was a fantastic spinny -jumpy- flippy thing you did tonight over that box thingy and well done on burling round the bars ' is drawing disparaging looks from my offspring .. Thanks.

 

[LucyRobinson]

'that was a fantastic spinny -jumpy- flippy thing you did tonight over that box thingy'

Hehe! A lot of my relatives (besides my mom who was a gymnast) have a heck of a time trying to figure out what skills are called. I tried to explain what a Yurchenko was the other day...

I would look on Youtube. Have your son tell you the name of the skill and type it in to the search bar. I think you'll find some things.

 

[gymgal]

Several years ago Revolution gymnastics used to have an animated video library for all the basic skills but I just looked and can't find it. Maybe someone know of a similar one?

 

[sun]

Here's the closest thing I've found to a gymnastics video encyclopedia

https://www.youtube.com/user/JoeLangley/playlists

 

[mom2newgymnast]

I like this site. It’s not just for beginner skills and it might not have some of the very beginner ones, but it does include a lot. Also I think it follows the elite code, so some of the values might be different for DP. But still worth checking out I think.

 

[FifiMum]

Here's the closest thing I've found to a gymnastics video encyclopedia

https://www.youtube.com/user/JoeLangley/playlists

Thank you this is pretty much exactly what I was after!

 

[gympoppop]

Thank you this is pretty much exactly what I was after!

USAG also has illustrations of all of the routines that may be helpful. Your daughter could probably write the name of each skill down for you to follow along. Unfortunately, it looks like they haven't updated these yet for the new routines.

Link Removed