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June 19th, 2010 | floor (men), humour
When I was a young coach I was much impressed when Dave Copeland made a “spotting belt” out of a pair of blue jeans.
He and I ran down an outdoor runway at gym camp, and spotted a Tsuk (very effectively) by each of us holding on to a leg of the jeans.
Here’s a gymnast using a spare pair of shorts in place of tumbling handcuffs.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Thanks Kevin Chope for the video.
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When I was a young coach I was much impressed when
That’s great! I on occasion use a sweatshirt in lieu of a spotting belt (like the method of twisting up and holding part of a gymnast’s t-shirt as a handle). Just wrap it around the waist, tie and grab both sleeves- can spot and push someone’s body around with either hand. Works well with beginner kids in rec; but I’ve sometimes used it for level 4-5 team on trampoline and on tumbletrak on back tucks and backhandspring back tucks. They get a kick out of it.
The shorts idea is hilarious.
More details on the Tsuk spot please!
He tied the jeans around the waist of the gymnast, crossed the legs over (to account for the 1/2 twist) and we ran alongside the gymnast.
During the round-off the legs of the jeans “unwound”.
We could hold up the gymnast while she flipped the salto.
… I know it sounds unbelievable, but I can assure you it did work. …
I’d pay a lot of $$ to see a video of you and Copeland running along side that gymnast – oh why didn’t we have youtube back in those days!?
I assumed that’s the way you were doing it- like the old-school way of using a regular spotting belt for RO BH, with one coach on either side, grabbing one rope and running alongside.
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