Issues with yurchenkos

[ACoach78]

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Originally Posted by CoachL she is also pretty spongey in the shoulders, and has alot of shoulder angle and her toes aren't snapping up enough. We do tons of double layouts into the pit, also using a double mini we do hs snap down onto a porta table w/ and w/o the salto. I've made a yurchenko DVD that I sold at region 1 congress a few times. I'll try and upload some drills to youtube.

The shoulder angle is a direct result of the issues with the round-off and not keeping the ears covered at the completion of the RO. As I mentioned, I don't feel that it's possible for the arms to catch back up due to the limited amount of time (milliseconds) from the pre-flight to table contact.

Secondly, the toes don't snap up. The snap occurs through the shoulder girdle and chest. There should be an aggressive elevation and protraction of the shoulder girdle with a simultaneous hollowing (thoracic flexion) of the chest. Additionally, as the chest begins to rise upwards, the arms will start dropping (extension at the shoulder) so as to shorten the body's radius and speed up rotation.

If you want to look at a pretty textbook Yurchenko...here's a good one for you to observe. Notice her position at the end of the RO - she's almost vertical and her heels aren't even contacting the springboard, yet. Her ears are fully covered. By the time her heels are contacting, her center of mass is already moving backwards to allow her to get in at a lower angle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSrwh7QTYKU