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September 21st, 2011 | floor (men), Gymnastics, Trampoline
Via GYMNAST CROSSING out of Santa Monica, California.
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That’s pretty much my favourite way to start the ‘whip layout’ forward. Additional steps could include 1-arm flyspring with each arm. And finger tip flyspring.
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I think it’s pretty well-known way of learning the somersault forward, but not with a straight body (as layout), profiled on the twisting, but with a slightly arching chest and low back. This transition body shape during the somersault forward gives the gymnast an opportunity to develop not only very powerful take off from the ground, but also to increase the rotation by salto, combining several of these salto in a row. In my opinion, according to the analogy with whip salto backward, it would be a whip salto forward if arch and hollow of the body, known as snap forward, will be presented.
The most interesting thing is that in the performance of the drills with supporting block the slightly hollow shape in the first part was obvious, since the gymnasts had to put their hands on supporting block. Once the block was removed, the somersault turned to the most common slightly arched layout forward. Actually, it was nothing left from the technique of whip salto forward. It was clearly seen when gymnast combined three front layouts in a row.
That was a flaw in how I put the video together. I should have waited and filmed the gymnasts who went through this progression as they got better at it, rather than the ones shown in the end result (older gymnasts who did not go through this exact progression but were starting to show some decent front layout whips).
My mistake in film presentation on the virtues of the drill. Thanks for pointing it out (It did cross my mind, but didn’t seem that important when I was editing- but obviously it is very important to show off how the end results are directly related to the progressions taken). I’ll have to note this in the video!
I have a personal education question. What’s the difference, if any, between a forward whip and just a forward layout? I can never tell.
The two terms are used to mean the same thing — ”whip layout”.
A true forward layout would be high and slow rotating, like a backward layout.
We once had a gymnast — Rhett Stinson — try to compete the highest forward layout EVER. And he did.
The following season he replaced that with double front.
And continuing that train of thought, here’s an example of how and when you’d use either:
Really high single layout (like Rick mentioned) –> double front/high twisting front layout.
Low, “whippy” front layouts –> Multiple connecting skills
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