Recent content by tweez94

Hey everyone I have a group of kids hoping to get twisting in a year or less on vault. Problem is their preflights are way too slow so even their layouts aren't rising enough or rotating fast enough just yet. What would everyone's key drills be to spend a few sessions getting these kids...

sprints are great but in my opinion they are useless unless done to a board. The goal isn't to run fast but to run the fastest all the way to the board thus hitting the board with as much power as possible. Focus on straight jumps up to mat stacks or over things until the kids can do them at...

For basic front handspring vaults I've changed how I explain the vault and have tried to change how our girls understand the vault. In the past it has always been jump to handstand and use your heel drive and block to fly off the table. This has lead to slow massive jump with barely any block...

I myself have been wondering the same thing. I've been looking over the new elite technical sequences and noticed the emphasis on good tucked and piked saltos with the early kick out (at or above horizontal). I guess everything comes back to basics one way or another. It seems most coaches I...

Yeah, I think I will use it with discretion, trying to focus more on anything having to do with support strength, HS strength, tuck, l, v, straddle sits, ropes, and basics. I'll just try and choose one particular strength skill and one particular basic skill per (rec, beg, adv) class and tailor...

I hear ya, I'm trying to put together I can follow strictly (or as strictly as possible given it will be implemented within rec classes too)

Yea I don't believe it has changed too much, our boys program will most likely never be able to invest in a pre-team program so we will most likely end up grabbing the ones we want right out of our rec classes, I want a decent sized team, but I want a top notch team that can compete within the...

Has anyone used the BSAP preschool-preteam-level 4 training curriculum? Im trying to decide the best way to impliment it into our program at the lower levels. The biggest thing I've noticed is we are lacking way too much strength and I think it starts at the bottom.

But anyway Matt, I am in the same boat but we have been going for about a year now practicing 9 hours a week for our two older kids and 6 hours a week for our 5 younger ones. I am still in the learning process but I think the biggest things that I have learned are: circles and handstand must be...

Hey BlairBob, any chance I could see those two documents too? It would be greatly appreciated!

That is how I feel about conditioning, I think they need to learn that not everything that you have to do in life will be enjoyable. My ideal team is a small group of incredibly competitive hard working kids that support each other like family members, because this is the type of kid that I...

Their is an absurd amount of core exercises for gymnasts to perform, just make sure it is an exercise that they can do correctly rather than in large numbers otherwise they will be working incorrect positions and thus incorrect muscles. The usual ones that everyone does form time to time are...

I guess it does come down to location quite a bit, everything is very different where I am from haha

Yea I use a lot of contests and relay races, I've got a tough group of kids I have two that are incredibly talented but can be smart asses (very different ages), I have another who is very talented but not the least bit competitive (refuses to do anything with the word contest in it), 2 that are...

Yea it's hard now! And I always have ideas for conditioning ahead of time but I change it practically every day. You think even with boys you can get away with having the same routine going for a month before they'll get bored of it? I've noticed the more you change things and keep them on...