Tong Fei on Horizontal Bar

A difficult concept to introduce is the exaggerated ‘tap’ often called after the 1985 World Champion Tong Fei.

… Hideo (Mizo) Mizoguchi shows a drill to develop the Chinese tap swing for flyaway dismounts.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Mizo’s one of the most effective coaches in the gym I’ve ever known.

In Canada we use a piked toe-on, toe-off as a progression, earlier than this stage.

Check the Gymnastics Minute YouTube channel for more. And GymSmarts for Mizo’s DVDs.

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