A much neglected basic skill on bar for girls, this is the easiest way to teach grip shift for swinging skills.
Kids as young as age-7 can do dozens in a row with very little risk of “rips”. (You can lift hands on each sole circle, cooling the hands.)
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“Shift and shorten” is the only tricky phase.
Could add some progressions stepping on to the bar from a box with one, then two feet … before casting.
All the same steps can be done on a safety straps bar. But keep it LOW enough for the gymnast to be able to STAND on their feet in case they slip their feet through to skin-the-cat hang.
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