“girl in my gym broke her arm yesterday”

That’s the title of a post on Chalk Bucket by Nightflare514.

… It was a clean break, Thank God. She was doing a squat on, and kind of tumbled of the low bar, and put her right arm down and *SNAP*, it was broken. Nobody else thought it was broken, but I saw the way it jerked, and then after that she couldn’t move it. And I also knew something was wrong, because Mattie … she just doesn’t cry unless something is seriously, majorly wrong.

How many times have I heard this story?

Many coaches underestimate this “easy” combination, the one I always refer to as: “the most dangerous skill in gymnastics”

At the start of the school year, all the girls in my club must “pass” these progressions:

Click PLAY or watch the short video clip on YouTube.

related post: teaching REGRASP on a gymnastics bar