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    Coaches Requesting Back Handspring Drills for a beginner

    I do private lessons with a girl who wants to learn a back handspring. I have her doing back limbers and back handsprings over a barrels and those are looking great. She also does jump body slams and those look good also. When I spot her in a resi pit, she brings her legs up way before she...
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    WAG Flipping the yurchenko

    I have a gymnast who is more than ready to flip the yurchenko but she is scared. She has very good timers and block and height is not an issue. She tells me that she doesn't know how to flip without touching the ground. I have never had a gymnast with this issue before! So, I'm asking if anyone...
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    WAG Another gym in town

    I coach at a gym in a very small town. About 5 years ago, we had a coach who got a job at a wellness center teaching tumble classes. The owner didn't take that to well to he asked her to leave. So now... she has opened a gym last year and all year long, she has been telling people about us that...
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    WAG Fronthandspring Front Tuck Vault

    I need some help! I am doing private lessons with a high school gymnast who would like to compete a front handspring front tuck vault but i know nothing about this!What are the things that I should know to help her ? Are there any drills that I could have her do with me and/or at her high school...
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    need serious help with level 8

    ok... can anyone explain level 8 to me please? our head coach wants to move a level 7 to level 8 and the coach doesn't know any of the requirements or anything else. we haven't had a level 8 in our gym since i quit and that was about 4 or 5 years ago so im a little out of it when it comes to the...
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    floor routine choreography

    This summer, i know i will have at least 6 floor routines that i have to create for our girls. I'm fairly new at this... i made 2 last year and i help with the dance like if the routines needs some fillers or things, but i think this year i may have some trouble. Where would i get inspiration...
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    how to handle attitudes in the gym

    we have a major issue with attitudes with our girls in the gym. some of our girls don't like to be told no and they don't like to be told what to do... they get attitudes when us coaches ask them to try something that they do not want to do. for example i told a girl that she has to do 3 bar...
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    back extension roll conditioning and drills

    a few of my girls are having problems with opening up into the handstand. they almost always open up way too early and sometimes they open up late but it almost never happens that way. so are their any drills out there that help with the timing? and also is there any conditioning that they could...
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    long hang pullovers

    i have a few girls that are just starting to work on these on the high bar. what are some drills to help them get over. we haven't really tried anything yet so i don't know anything about their pullovers....
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    prep optional help!!

    after state this season, our gym is having a few girls move to the prep optional program from level 5 and i get to coach these girls. i have never coached prep optional before i do not know what i'm doing basically.... i know the basis on how it works and i have the requirements from the USAG...
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    how to shift hands in clear hip

    our level 7 girls desperately need help with this. their hands just seem to "float" over the bar and when i tell them to shift their hands they tell me they do not know how and/or when to do it. does anyone have a solution for this?!! their clear hips could be much better if they can get this...
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    level 3 and state

    our gym is hosting the level 3 and 4 state meet for indiana this year and we recently had a meeting with our state representative about how to host this meet. she told us that level 3's were not required to qualify for state. so what is going on? we are totally confused by this because we have...
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    I'm going crazy!!!

    this is the situation... our level 7's are going to a big meet in arizona in a couple of weeks and our head coach/owner wants the girls to work with him and only him for the next two weeks to get them ready. that is not a big deal to me, but what i do have problem with is that he's making me...
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    layouts and fulls in floor routine

    in a L7 floor routine, does a full fulfill the same requirement as the layout? i know they have the same value but im asking if a girl can do a full and skip the layout. at our meet, one of the coaches told the girls to a full as the first pass and a tuck for the last. i always thought that a...
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    question about judging

    can a judge, judge their own girls at a meet? this past weekend, our girls were at a meet and a judge was judging the girls that went to the gym that she coaches at. The parents of our girls didn't seem to think that it was fair for her to do that. they asked me about it and im not sure on how...
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    front handspring help...

    i have a few level 5's who cant get their feet together in the front handspring. as a result, they end up doing a handspring step out. i have them doing drills that make them stretch before the put their hands down and blocking drills. Some of them end up whipping to stand up and land in a...
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    front hip circle drills

    i know there was a previous thread about this skill but it wasnt quite what i was looking for. i cant seem to get my girls to wrap themselves around the bar in the circle. they cant get the concept of fall till horizontal then nose to knees. are there and drills for this? or is it just practice...
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    any reverse flyaway drills?

    i have a girl that has just started to work these. when she does let go to flip, she ends up going strait down and flipping well away from the bar and definitely not landing on her feet. I know she is not letting go at the top of the swing but im not sure if thats the major problem. i also cant...
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    sleepover games?

    ok, so our gym is having a sleepover that is at the gym for our team girls. we have games that we play for prizes and the girls love this because most of the mare really competitive^^ so i was wondering is there are any conditioning games or drills that they can do as games? i figured they can...
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    split leaps in level 3 floor routine!^^

    does it matter how much split the leap has in level 3? because our girls are little and we cant seem to get them to split very much and at meets most other gyms are just about or they are 180 split, but it doesnt seem to affect their score. if they do need to be 180 or a little below, are there...

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