Category: horizontal bar

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.

56-year-old Tkachev

Yoshinao Kimoto HB All Japan Masters Gymnastics Championship 2017.

Watch it on GymnasticsNews.

There’s a second better Tkachev at the end of the video.

(via Ono)

judging angles on Bars

This is something like how a computer would do it.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That last pirouette is probably OK, I’d say. There would need to be sensors on the rails to confirm time of regrasp on pirouettes.

Stalder progressions

Not every gymnast should train Stalder, but Swing Big put together a series of videos for those kids who have the physical prerequisites.

 Click PLAY or watch one sample on YouTube.

Fabian’s H Bar

Though officially retired, Hambuechen is still one of the best in the world on Pipe.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

 
(via twoflips-threetwists)

biomechanics – tangent of release

G.S. George:

Every release from any external-swing movement always results in
the center of mass being projected at a right angle to its radius.

If you release when the Centre of Gravity is as high as the Bar you go straight up, straight down. (e.g. Gienger)

Read more.

Tkatchev skills

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My favourite way to START Tkachev / Shaposh skills is with a Quick Flex Bar ($300) on Tramp.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.