Back handspring & round off drills for pike down technique

Handstand flatback drill

I got this idea originally from Swing Big:

Modifying a staple exercise for the little ones

Slider drills across the floor is part of the regular warm-up that many of the boys team, lvl3s, and preteam kids do.

With a new crop of preteam kids, I figured out a way to modify one of the harder exercises for them:

Core Posture Alignment Awareness & Strengthening Exercise/Test

Some conditioning ideas and shaping drills

The gym owner calls this funeral music.  But the slow pace of the music is killer for strength training.

Finding body alignment on the foam rollers

All sorts of creative uses for foam rollers beyond the original intent.


Here's one:

Pac-man hollow arches

There are some other ideas for this I hadn't filmed, yet.

I wish my current gym had rainbows (half doughnuts).  I had filmed a couple of creative drills at my old gym using these; but I no longer have those vids.

Gymnastics Progressions

Justin Laury's new resource site is now open for business.  Check it out.

I've long admired his attention to body shaping.

Backhandspring Progress & Shaping Drill

We only have one vault table and I normally don't get to do this drill setup with my girls on a regular basis.  This was a preteam/new level 3 kid on Saturday.  She made some big improvements on her backhandspring.

Press/Cast Handstand/Stalder Shape Conditioning

Have not done this exercise in a very long time:

That's a preteam/new level 3 kid.  Thought I'd try it with her at the end of her practice.


Below, I think this was a level 5 kid; maybe training old level 6:

Bar Basics with Tom Stevens

Swing Big links to a bars clinic by Tom Stevens:

Tight Drills

A few spotted tight drills:

New FB page for Gymnastics Drills

Gymnastics Progressions is run by Euro Stars (with Justin Laury). Facebook page for Euro Stars. 

Partner Core Training

Some good ideas:

More core and shaping drills with instability devices

I might have posted this before:

Played around with other variations yesterday:

Some core & shaping exercises

Round-off shaping and positioning drill

Get the Point

I don't remember if I posted this Mary Lee Tracy video before:

Good exercises in this one:

Therabands can work well for the towel exercise.  Also, toe-curling walks across the floor.

We definitely live in an age of information inundation:

Previously related post:
Toe point conditioning

Lvl4 vault rotation HS idle station

At GW, the boys pommel horse area is right by the end of the vault runway.  So I sometimes take advantage of the equipment for side stations.

Finding straight:

Can never get in enough handstand practice.

Forearm Forklifts

These are forearm forklifts I purchased from Home Depot after watching Mel Eades of Splitz Gymnastics Academy put them to good effect.

8-21-2014

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