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By "serious injury," I am generally referring to broken bones, surgery, or long-lasting effects. Also, I am mostly interested in higher level gymnasts that have participated in the sport for a while.
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Woah, that seems high. Among the 90% of them, what percent of the injuries would you say were broken bones, required surgery, led to long-lasting pain, etc?90%. Most of these kids are L8-10 for 7+ years.
Requiring surgery - very few; long lasting pain - even less. The 90% is mostly broken bones and for kids who were L8-10 for 7+ years. At some point, most have broken a bone.Woah, that seems high. Among the 90% of them, what percent of the injuries would you say were broken bones, required surgery, led to long-lasting pain, etc?
Could you explain what you mean with fingers forwards or backwards? I am very curious but can't picture it at all...put her arms down with her fingers facing backward. Now we reinforce sitting with the fingers forward
Fingers forward - picture standing with your arms straight down, thumbs at your sides (so the palms are facing backward). If you were to put your hands down to sit from a deep squat, the heels of your palms would be the farthest back and your fingers would all be pointing toward the front (meaning pointing toward what your face is looking at instead of pointing to everything behind you).Could you explain what you mean with fingers forwards or backwards? I am very curious but can't picture it at all...
Also, do you have any good resources for fall training? I'm in an adult class and we don't do that much, and as I'm getting further along I'm more and more wanting to be careful.
Ah okay, thanks. That's actually the only thing I could think of too, but I thought I was misunderstanding. I honestly couldn't imagine accidentally putting your hand the wrong way unless you fall so weird that you can't help it. My instinct is to catch myself with my hands forward, which I've actually been trying to unlearn a bit. (It's caused issues in a toe shoot drill, but also it's not always the safest to catch yourself with your hands I think. )Fingers forward - picture standing with your arms straight down, thumbs at your sides (so the palms are facing backward). If you were to put your hands down to sit from a deep squat, the heels of your palms would be the farthest back and your fingers would all be pointing toward the front (meaning pointing toward what your face is looking at instead of pointing to everything behind you).
By "serious injury," I am generally referring to broken bones, surgery, or long-lasting effects. Also, I am mostly interested in higher level gymnasts that have participated in the sport for a while.
Every gymnast especially at higher levels will always have some part of their body that will always cause issues. I would say in my gym by level 8/9 90% of girls have had some serious injury, but that doesn't mean they didn't heal from it.By "serious injury," I am generally referring to broken bones, surgery, or long-lasting effects. Also, I am mostly interested in higher level gymnasts that have participated in the sport for a while.