I always look forward to new instructional videos from Nick Blanton. He’s a great coach.
We recommend coaches start with the John Geddert progressions (DVD) and add / delete drills from there.
Nick has many different drills on this edit to consider.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I love these:
• backhandspring – flyspring series
• all the ‘block drills’ to stop in bridge
But for me any use of the belt on this skill is more trouble than it’s worth. Bit of a non-issue, in any case. I don’t think I’ve even seen a traveling belt since the late 1970s. 
Personally I don’t like any drills involving salto over the horse. The safety argument is specious. And it’s a too high preflight drill.
(Many, many coaches better than me still use it. We’ll have to agree to disagree.)
Missing from this video are a critical series of drills — distance drills. It’s easy to flip your first Yurchenko — the hard part is not kicking the table on the way by. Therefore I wait until even small gymnasts can get their hands on the end of the table. And show me good distance on the ‘timer’ to candle.
Lastly, I wouldn’t let several of those boys advance to Yurchenko. They are physically prepared, but technique on round-off and backward handspring is not there yet.
These girls I would advance to Yurchenko. (VIDEO). … A subtle difference, perhaps.
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