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  1. coachmolly

    Coaches Beam- Floor Work vs Beam Time

    I am working to revamp my beam workouts and am curious to hear what other coaches find works best. Previously, I did a beam complex with all the usual stuff (releves, walks, kicks) with a big focus on posture and just being on the beam and getting comfortable. Then it moved into bigger skills...
  2. coachmolly

    Coaches Floor Warm-ups w/Tumbling Strip

    The state where I previously lived almost never utilized tumbling strips for meet warm-ups, however it appears that is the norm in my current location. I have been to 1-2 out of state meets previously that did have a tumbling strip, but I just want to make sure I have the ins and outs of it...
  3. coachmolly

    Coaches Level 4 Bars

    I am looking for clarification on the level 4 bar dismount and am sure someone here can help. However I am not sure how to best describe the 2 methods very well. I always thought the gymnast swung out released with 1 hand- performed the 1/2 turn- tapped the bar with the hand that released and...
  4. coachmolly

    WAG Elite Gymnast & High School Diver

    We see a lot of talk here about all of the sacrifices gymnasts make at all levels, but especially those on the elite/college bound track that it was fun to see a story about a senior national team member who is also giving high school diving a try simultaneously. Pretty cool of her gymnastics...
  5. coachmolly

    Coaches Tramp Board for Xcel

    Has anyone been to an Xcel meet in the last season or two that did NOT provide a tramp board/air board for Xcel sessions? For the last 2 seasons I've lugged ours around with me only to find one on site at almost every meet. However we did go to one meet that only provided 1 tramp board with 2...
  6. coachmolly

    Coaches Closed Shoulder BHS

    I have 2 girls, both have had their bhs for about a year, and both have terribly closed shoulders. Both struggle terribly with shoulder flexibility (one worked with a PT briefly and has specific exercises to address the issue) and obviously addressing that issue is our first course of action...
  7. coachmolly

    WAG Music in the Gym

    Just curious- what do your gyms do about background music in the gym? I don't typically turn anything on, but inevitably another coach will come in who thinks it's too quiet and clicks on the radio to a pop station and inevitably some questionable stuff comes on. We had a parent complain...
  8. coachmolly

    Off Topic Prize Bag Ideas

    This is somewhat gym related, but I figured I would post here. I have a prize bag that I periodically let the girls pick from, it's not an advertised thing that they work to earn through doing skills, but rather a bonus surprise- a kid being a great teammate/encourager, good helper, etc. But I...
  9. coachmolly

    Coaches Chest Up on Board

    I have a kid who has been struggling for a year on keeping her chest up on the board for vault and I am at a total loss. She managed to do decently on the Bronze (level 3) vault, but now that we're trying to move to the real vault, the issue is even more pronounced. She has her skills on the...
  10. coachmolly

    WAG Gym Scavenger Hunt

    I posted a few weeks ago about small group activities to get our team girls to know each other better. I'm working on a scavenger hunt type activity for tomorrow but need some ideas. It's nothing super creative/clever (no rhymes or clues leading to a final prize), they'll just get points for...
  11. coachmolly

    WAG Team Game Ideas

    We have an issue in our gym of the lower level and upper level girls being treated like 2 totally separate teams. So for the summer, I'm trying to come up with something that will facilitate some type of positive interaction between the two groups. My plan is to split the girls into 4 teams of...
  12. coachmolly

    WAG Alpha Factor Sale

    Hope this is okay, I'm on the Alpha Factor email list and got an email this morning about this and thought I would pass it along. 30% off everything- no restrictions- until Tuesday with the code MEM30. That includes clearance, and they have some clearance leos in the $20 range which makes for a...
  13. coachmolly

    Coaches Hip Alignment

    I have 2 girls with a similar but opposite problem regarding hip alignment and need some new ideas. Kid 1 struggle with flexibility, has worked really hard to get her split almost down. She works lots of kicks working on not letting her hips swing out, but still really struggles- split leaps...
  14. coachmolly

    Coaches Band Assisted Pull-ups

    I know a few of you have mentioned using resistance bands to help athletes who struggle with pull-ups, does anyone happen to have a picture of what you've thrown together? I have a handful of girls who really just cannot get the hang of pull-ups, no matter how hard they try they just can't...
  15. coachmolly

    Coaches Board Question

    My Xcel kids use an air-board, I wish they didn't, but they do. I always bring it with me to meets just in case there is not one provided. We attended a meet this weekend, I placed the board next to the vault where we would be competing and went to our first event. When we got to vault (our 2nd...
  16. coachmolly

    WAG Meets that Provide Leo

    I wasn't sure how to title this, and hopefully I'm worrying about something that won't turn out to be an issue, but I'm curious about meets that have a giveaway leo that they have all the girls wear for the meet itself. We are heading to one in a few weeks and I'm wondering, has anyone run into...
  17. coachmolly

    Coaches Floor Music- How do you bring to meets?

    Just curious what other people use to play their FX music at meets? 2 season ago HC had an off brand MP3 player that was not at all user friendly and I was put on music duty at states and managed to screw up. I now have pretty terrible music anxiety at meets. Last season I used my own iPod...
  18. coachmolly

    Coaches Motivation

    I have a group of girls struggling with motivation and I'm hoping to find some wisdom here! They are Xcel Silvers- ages range from 8-11. All but one competed Bronze last year (the other is a first year competitor) and they did exceptionally well. I had trained the girls to be ready for Silver...
  19. coachmolly

    Coaches Vault Settings

    In Xcel, girls can vault on the "lowest manufactured setting." This rule is given with the disclaimer that not all vaults will go as low as 95. I have 2 girls (both small and slow runners) who are struggling with vault. Currently they are on 100 and I'm thinking about relenting and letting them...
  20. coachmolly

    WAG National Gymnastics Day- What does your gym do?

    We are a newer gym, not very well known in the community, and in an area where gymnastics is not very popular at all. We are starting to attract some more attention, but we thought National Gymnastics Day might be a good opportunity to have an open house type set up to bring in people from the...

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