Felge / Peach on Parallel Bars

blantonnick posted an excellent coaching tutorial on the (free membership) wwgym.com forum. Thread is called Undersomersault to Handstand on Parallel Bars.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The kids are from Notts School of Gymnastics in Nottingham, England. Except for the Chinese athlete, doing the very last Felge / Peach handstand series.

Note that the Chinese gymnast does what I call the “Stalder style Peach”, while all the progressions are for the easier, but less powerful, “Free hip style Peach”.

The difference is the amount of hip flexion / extension used.

Personally I like beginners to start quite straight body. (As in these excellent progressions.) … And later begin drills for the Stalder style. Eventually they’ll find the technique that works best for them.

Thanks Stu Cram for sending us the link.

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