Women Trying to teach kips to rec kids - only once a week!

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My girls only come to class once a week. A few of them are very talented and have gotten their roundoff back handspring back tucks, side aerials, walkovers on beam, etc. Bars is a different story. It is very hard for me to teach them when I only have a few minutes once a week. I have two in particular who are good, but when they glide, their feet go down at the end instead of up toward the bar. I have them doing leg lifts but it's not helping. Any ideas?

Next - one of those two girls comes to me once a week for 1/2 hour private lessons where we have been really focusing on kips and beam. She broke her foot two weeks ago and is now in a boot. She is coming to me later this week for our usual lessons because I figure this is a great time to work conditioning. Can you give me some guidance as to what I can have her doing to help her get the kip? Should I put an ankle weight on the other leg so her weight is even?
 
I'm not exactly sure, I can't really remember when I started working on them. Probably a year at least, maybe a year and a half, but that is because we didn't work on them very much and didn't do too many drills. Once I started working on them every practice, it was probably about 6 months before I got it. I went through about 3 months of being so close before making it. I know it's different for everyone though, I'm probably on the longer side because typically it takes me a long time to get skills.
 

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