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Yurchenko spring board drill

August 27th, 2010 | Gymnastics, vault

Al Fong:

… We have drills using panel mats as vaulting boards because sometimes our athletes don’t put 100% effort into their punches off the vault board. How do we know if they do or not? One way to find out. We take the vault board away and have them vault without it. It really makes them work.

Then put the board back in and watch them punch off the board to the ceiling. …

Who needs a board anyway!

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#1 bc on 08.27.10 at 7:26 am

makes me a little nervous that there isnt a safety zone around it.

#2 coach Rick on 08.27.10 at 8:42 am

Good point.

#3 Jess on 08.27.10 at 9:49 am

This looks like a good drill, except for the fact that the panel mat is not secured in any way. That is extremely dangerous. After that girl was paralyzed a couple of years back doing a drill like this when the mat slipped, I would make sure to have something stable and immobile against the back of the panel mat.

#4 TP on 08.27.10 at 12:06 pm

I think if you were doing that with lower level kids scared of the drill you could have a problem (maybe), but otherwise y’all are a bit paranoid here. I do panel mat drills of all kids regarding Round-offs, FHS, BHS, etc., and in order for the panel mat for slip you have to be doing what you’re doing very poorly and therefore shouldn’t even be using it.

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