Kayla feels confident to do this routine with no coach standing in.
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Category: spotting
Keeping Gymnasts SAFE
Chalk It Up Buttercup is the YouTube channel of 8-year-old Buttercup.
In this excellent video Buttercup and her coaches talk about keeping gymnasts safe, especially on appropriate and inappropriate touching.
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This is the video I’ll be showing to kids. It’s relatable and balanced. #BurnItAllDown types seem to want to ban all spotting. That’s dangerous, of course.
(via Aimee B)
TeamGym landing mats for Vault?
How many Artistic gymnasts would prefer to land on this mat system?
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg_vwvmBg1tY8_-bvb5aKjyR1JfGEmQD4WhXKk0/
Michelle in the comments notes that these are actually not the official teamgymnastics mats. In competition the mats are harder.
(via @GymPOWER)
high Trampoline bungee belt
David Morris – Olympic Silver Medallist in Aerial Skiing at Sochi.
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(via Thomas G Trapp)
ASI safety at Gymnastics
A long, but excellent overview of best practice at a club.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (36 min)
Thanks TumblTrak.
physical contact in the Gym
Coach Kyle gets specific on exactly what’s inappropriate in his Gym.
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Leave any comments you have on the YouTube page.
Mancino’s Big Hill
BEFORE you teach flyaway
Visiting 40-50 gyms a year I see a common dynamic. Young girls doing tucked flyaway with spot off the low rail of Bars.
Fun. Easy. Seems, at the time, to work.
But that’s not the best way to teach flyaway. Instead use a wide range of drills that don’t require spotting. Here’s one set-up I like, appropriate for kids as young as age-5.
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If you don’t have Rings, I’d highly recommend you buy a set. Fitness Rings are very inexpensive. Hang those on a rail at just the right height for your kids.
policeman catches falling child
Yeesh.
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in the Gym with Al Fong
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GAGE is the most unique training Gym I’ve visited.
Very clean. Very organized.
BEST are all the home made mats and training apparatus.
Tumbl Trak is selling Al Fong’s version of Bars spotting blocks.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 