Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

learning to fall safely

Pull the hands into the stomach.

Never reach back.

Some of the top Gyms assign an occassional Falling and Landing warm-up.

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Thanks John.

synchro Horizontal Bar

Tyson Bull and Mitch Morgans (AUS)

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Trampoline backward 1/1 twist

For Artistic, I prefer introducing the skill as a late TILT twist.

It’s easy (later as needed) to initiate the twist as early as seen in this progression series.

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Fastfluff™ inflatable Vault mat

No mats to move, no time wasted.

Inflate to Drill, Deflate to Skill.

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Kohei – 2014 Floor

I’d argue Kohei Uchimura singled handedly reinvented how male gymnasts land.

Easily the best in the world in his prime, many emulated Kohei’s exaggerated technique.

I love it as he turned the science of safely reducing huge impact forces to zero into an art form.

At the same time WAG was foolishly deducting low chest position. Dangerous!

Of his many stuck routines over many years, Blythe chose this as one of her decade-defining routines.

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street Gymnastics

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Photographer Albert Dessi.