WAG Twisting wrong direction?

[Pineapple_Lump]

No... not really... there are only a few skills that this matters for.

That is the half the art of coaching... To know when it actually matters, and if it is worthwhile to change for the individual if it really matters. There are plenty of high level gymnasts who don't do everything the ideal way.

 

[GymnastMomX2]

How about this... Jade Carey is a left leg roundoff and a right leg front handspring... see it at 1:58...

Whoa, that’s so weird! Looks like she also favors her right side for dance elements? It’s hard for me to tell since she doesn’t do any simple leaps or turns.

 

[Gymsanity]

I'm confused. We all agree that a right CW/RO is a left twist and vise versa. Correct? And that RO and twisting direction only correspond roughly 80% of the time and that front and back tumbling can be in different directions? And that it doesn't matter as long as it's the preferred direction for the gymnast? Just thought I was reading something different.

 

[JBS]

and that front and back tumbling can be in different directions?

What do you mean by this?

 

[Gymsanity]

Their front and back twisting isn't the same direction. Not common, but does happen. Had several girls that were very good twisters where their front and back twisting didn't correspond. In my formulative years I felt they should be the same and I fought it. Later when I realized that they were good twisters and it was working, why fix what isn't broken. Twisting doesn't just get in their heads lol, sometimes it's the coaches as well!

 

[JBS]

Their front and back twisting isn't the same direction. Not common, but does happen. Had several girls that were very good twisters where their front and back twisting didn't correspond. In my formulative years I felt they should be the same and I fought it. Later when I realized that they were good twisters and it was working, why fix what isn't broken. Twisting doesn't just get in their heads lol, sometimes it's the coaches as well!

This is what I was getting at above in responding to @Geoffrey Taucer ...

I have always said that they need to twist in the same direction both forwards and backwards... but now I am kind of changing my mind on that one. If they did... what all would they be stopped from doing? Basically just a 1/2 in 1/2 out... right?