Gifs.net gymnastics animations

Coach Kyla is looking for animations. Here is another site offering a few for free.

The one shown below was created by George Novak from Edmonton, Canada.

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Gifs.net Free Animations – –

By the way, handsprings done on the same spot are called … “spotters” by coaches in Cirque du Soleil. I had never heard the term applied to tumbling.

Very cool are forward spotters: flysprings done in series on the same spot. I saw a gymnast learn them on a tumbling tramp in about 15mins. She had great flysprings, but had never tried to undercut that much. (Looked like a good drill for athletes wanting to improve their front tumbling.)

Very few athletes can actually counter travel. That is, travel forward while doing backward handsprings. But it is possible.

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