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I swear by Vitamin E oil, it works so well and so quickly. What you do is take Vitamin E oil (can be found at CVS and I'm sure other grocery/drug stores) and you put a generous amount on your rip and put a sock over it before you sleep. If you think that the sock may come off during your...

I've seen some videos of gymnasts holding handstands for a long time and they make adjustments to save the handstand from falling. I searched the Internet and they said that if it's falling forward, you push through your fingers and if you start falling backwards, you push through your wrist...

What are some back stretches your gym does? At our gym, the only back stretching they do is a bridge and that's about it. It seems a bit like just popping into a split without doing the lunge and hamstring stretch. I was wondering if there were any prerequisite stretches your gym does in...

I think it helps when you bridge with your feet on an elevated surface and kick over from there. Just keep lowering the elevation until you can do it on the ground.

I have four, but one of them is from another gym I was at which has their logo and I don't think my gym would appreciate me wearing it .. :rolleyes:. I don't have too many leos as they are really expensive and we're required to wear a team practice leo 3 outta 4 days. I love GK leos, but I only...

Skills I want to improve or learn by the end of March : Vault : - get front handspring consistent - learn half on (get hands all the way around) Bars : - polish up bar connection (figure out kip cast) - learn clear hip or maybe drop kip? :) Floor : - improve roundoff backhandsprings -...

I know, I know - there are a bunchhh of press handstand questions and threads and I think I've read just about all of the ones I've come across, but none of them really .. seem to answer my questions. I can do a press from stand (straddle) against the wall, but I can't do it from a sitting or...

I am a 13 year old level 5 (I started late) at .. a gym. It's not YMCA but I'm not sure if I should label it private or not. My favorite skills are forward skills. I much prefer going forward rather than backwards anywhere. I'm terrified at backwards tumbling. Not really terrified, it's just...

When I actually started working on them it took me around .. 6 months. I had it there on and when I actually started team and going to practice often it took me around a month to get a straight armed kip. I hadn't worked on long hang kips until starting team and when I did I got it on my first...