Category: bars

introducing straddle press handstand

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Compare with GymTactics Straddle Press Handstand.

via Gymnastics Coaches Skills & Drills on Facebook (private group)

Rick McCharles Gymnastics TIPS 😀

For Boys and Girls. 

This is a video I put together some years ago showing some of my favourite Gymnastics progressions.

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Kip progressions

I’d say the most frustrating skill to learn in women’s Gymnastics is Kip on Bars.

Here’s an excellent and comprehensive overview of progressions and conditioning for both Glide and Kip.

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Bars – Double Layout dismount, 1/2 out 

In TRAINING. 

It would be easy to under-rotate this in competition. 

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SAVING handstand on Bars

I admire gymnasts who have the physical preparation and mental quickness to SAVE a handstand that ends up in reverse planche position.

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H Bars do break – metal fatigue

I still recall the day in the 1990s when my boss Keith Russell insisted we recycle the horizontal bar at University of Saskatchewan. Pay for a new one.

He felt they had to be replaced every 10 years in a Gym with many adult male gymnasts.

advanced Gymnastics skills in training

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