video – shoulder stretching device

Peter Soul from Integrity Gymnastics in Ohio makes many training aids including a shoulder stretching device. (We could not come up with a catchy name for it.)

Click PLAY on the video below or watch the clip on YouTube.com

It worked best, I thought, when training handstands and pirouettes. But kids tried it on bars and tumbling, as well.

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#1 Richard on 12.14.06 at 3:30 pm

What material did he use to make that?

#2 coach Rick on 12.14.06 at 9:54 pm

I was with him at Home Depot. He bought a variety of different plastic pipe pieces. The time-consuming part was heating the plastic (with a blow dryer) to curve the plastic to fit around the shoulders the way he wanted.

But it is a great concept.

I could not build one myself, however.

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