Category: falling & landing

Backflip Box Jumps

A great progression. Excellent challenge.

How FAST can you rotate?

Good leg conditioning. Excellent practice at what to do when under-rotating.

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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.

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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train landings train landings train landings

Landings are incredibly important in NCAA competition. Yet College girls are not very good at them. πŸ˜•

Almost any male gymnast is more skilled at bringing impact forces to zero than almost any female gymnast. Male gymnasts work seriously on landings.

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Click PLAY or watch U.S. guys working landings on instagram.

Yes. Part of the problem in WAG is judging expectations. We need to educate judges to the biomechanically, physiologically BEST and SAFEST techniques of landing.

falling safely in Gymnastics

When the unexpected happens, every gymnast should automatically fall in the safest possible way.

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Simone can stick

With plenty of rotation, Simone almost never lands “short”.

BUT I wouldn’t say she’s one of the greats at “sticking” landings. It does happen, however.

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2021 EU STICKS compilation

NOTE that backward salto landings typically result in chest position in a range between horizontal and 45%.

That’s mechanical, medically and physically a good way to absorb those huge impact forces.

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Allan Bower – Vault

Click PLAY or watch day 2 on Twitter.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.