Chelsea Jones
Gymnast
I recently started gymnastics and recently, I have found landing on a landing mat kind of hurts my ankles, and I was wondering if that is normal.
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I do stretch a lot and warm up before classes. The pain generally occurs when I land on a vault landing mat.No it is not.
Questions: What do you mean by a landing mat? A crash mat? Does that hurt whereas landing on a stiffer surface (spring floor, panel mat) does not? That might imply an ankle stability problem that might be helped by a wobble board. If it won't cause problems to other gymnasts putting a stiffer mat over the top so the landing surface is more stable might help too. Alternately if you do not mean a crash mat but some sort if thinner mat it may not be providing adequate impact absorp Also, landing what? Are you warming up and stretching your ankles at the beginning of the class?