- Aug 17, 2025
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So as a level 8 gymnast (if anyone read my previous post yes they decided to keep me in 8) I need some help with my vaults. I have been working tsuk pikes and tsuk tucks to mats in the pit and am trying to compete the tsuk pike. I’ve always been confident that I could easily do it too the comp surface but last practice I got a bit of a reality check. We went to a number of mats in the pit that is close to the height of the comp mats maybe a bit higher and even with my coach bumping me it was a whole lot harder than I thought and I was only doing a tuck. So I need some tips for actually doing it to courage since that’s happening soon and I’m a bit apprehensive about it now and also actually landing my vault. I can land a tsuk tuck to mats in the pit but I bend my knees to early so my coach had me switch to mostly training pikes but I can’t understand at all how to land them. I can overotate but can’t land at all.