Category: bars

preventing and treating rips

Rips are injuries. Smarter gymnasts and coaches suffer fewer.

Prevention is the #1 goal.

… calluses form on the palms of the hands because of the repeated rubbing of the hands against the bars. …

… You want to keep the calluses thick enough that they protect your hands, but polished and smoothed so they don’t catch on the bars. …

Use something like the RIPT Grindstone to smooth calluses.

For more, click over to GYMNASTICSHQ – GUIDE TO GYMNASTICS RIPS: PREVENTION & CARE

Not mentioned in that article is my favourite treatment for healing rips.

Before going to sleep at night put your ripped hand in any kind of plastic bag. Inside you put plenty of moisturizer. Seems almost anything keeps the skin moist. Tie it on with loose string (not tight elastics). Most rips are healed enough to train after 1 or 2 nights.

Tan Jiaxin – training

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https://www.tumblr.com/irishdaniel/168384662258/tan-jiaxins-amanar-and-triple-twisting-double

catch 8 / 10 Bar releases

The level 10’s at Hunts were challenged by head coach Shannon Hunt to hit 8 out of 10 bar releases twice as a group. Did they make it?

Also get a look at their warm-up complex and some of the extra side stations …

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Amelia Knight – Van Leuween to Zuchold-Schleudern

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Bermuda Gymnastics Association 2017

Over the past year I’ve been assisting Head Coach Adriana Forde and her staff in Bermuda. With a population of only 65,000, the sport is quite advanced. They have MAG up to USA JO L8 and WAG up to L10.

Click PLAY or get a glimpse on YouTube. Bars is highest priority for WAG right now.