Category: floor (women)

Aleksandra Schekoldina – tumbling

Click PLAY or watch her Massilia Masters FX on YouTube. (fall on turn)

Click PLAY or watch her on a tumbling trampoline on YouTube.

Some call her Schek.

I got that from a post listing Russian gymnast nicknames.

Brooklyn Moors slow-mo

Brooklyn is not the most powerful tumbler. She has very good technique.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

hurdle drills

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Note that all these demonstrators take off from the sprint for their hurdle from the opposite leg they put down first on round-off. The legs switch during the hurdle.

That’s far more common than the alternative (taking off with the same leg).

Boris Verkhovsky first told me decades ago that a switch leg hurdle should increase power, but that it wasn’t essential.

(via Swing Big)

Jake Stoeckicht – tumbling drills

I want to attend a camp with coach Jake Stoeckicht from Rockford. He’s passionate. A great communicator. And I really like his approach to backward tumbling.

He uses many drills with exaggerated hip flexion. Edouard Iarov and many of the top coaches of the world encourage that technique. Note that the final skill in competition will not be done with anywhere near this kind of hip flexion. These are only progressions.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Tatiana Nabieva is back competing

Click PLAY or watch some of her Floor on Instagram.

 
(via Gymternet Clan)

tumbling with magnets

A foam sponge between the feet or knees gives feedback to gymnasts working to keep their legs together.

Click PLAY or watch the magnet alternative on YouTube. (AnklMagz™)