Recent content by pihlajat

100 anything sounds bad to me. Except maybe rope jump or something very light. What are the other things they are doing? If they are doing holds and shapes, that's just fine. But if they are doing 10 rope climbs and 50 pulls ups straight that is another story.

Hi again! A short report: I have now coached them four sessions and we are doing just fine! I like the girls a lot! I have told them very clearly that I'm still learning and I need to get used to spot those harder skills etc. I have always spotted the smallest 12-year-old girl first until "I...

I can't give you any advice but why don't you watch this one: Wall Bar Demonstration (How I Spent My Summer Weekends) - YouTube Isn't that cool one stall bar system!

Yeah I know it was a bit unwise for the head coach to do that, but like I said there was ABSOLUTELY no one else willing to coach them (mostly because that change happened in the middle of the year and the most experienced coaches already have their hands full of work). The competition season...

Oh wow, I'm still a little bit confused about yesterday. It was my first day coaching optional level gymnasts (the first optional level in here). I have absolutely no experience about that level because I'm new in this gym and earlier I coached (and did gymnastics by myself) in a different gym...

I was watching gym videos on Youtube and found an interesting French video. In this video (time 2.40), you can see a gymnast doing drop kips with a some kind of kip machine. It seems to work, at least the girl on the video can do drop kips with that belt thing by herself. On the other hand it...

Hi! I'm a young coach and after one month I'm moving to a bigger city here in Finland because of my studies. I have changed e-mails with a (kind of) head coach of that city A's gymnastics club. She suggested me to start coaching FOUR recreational groups and one new pre-team. I'm quite excited...

I'm Maria's current coach, not a friend of the family actually. And I do know that gymnasts practice a lot more usually than in here but the parents don't understand why should. Most of my team girls parents think that 4 hours is a lot (because many kids have other hobbies too) Life in here on...

One of my oldest team girls is going to move next fall to a bigger city in the southern Finland. This town where we live is very small and the gym club is small as well. My team girls practice only two times a week, 2 hours at the time. This girls, let's say her name is Maria, is very talented...

Okay now I understood!Well, it's a meet day tomorrow and the younger girl is gonna participate. I think that some of her issues always get worse when the meets are coming. This young kid really WANTS to compete and is always excited but then she usually scores a bit low and get anxious. This...

Dunno, I'm sorry but I didn't get your "point", I mean that comment you left doesn't make sense to me... Did you use an idiom or something like that or why my ear doesn't get it? Anyway, could you please say it using other words? Even Google Translator didn't help me this time :D

Thank you! I'm pretty sure there is something going on at their home. I have heard that their mother has had some problems with her ex-husband's family etc but that may not be the only issue... We don't have private gyms in here so we don't have a a gym owner either. Coaches are volunteers and...

Hi! There is a 9-year-old girl in my team. She has done gymnastics for about 4 years and I have been her coach for about 2 years now. Her big sister (who is 11) is in the same team and her two other siblings are doing gymnastics as well. Well, this kid has very poor self-esteem and it's a big...

thank you all! we'll have a one week break because the gymnast have a winter holiday now so we can't continue practising the skill before that, but after the holiday i'll make them do more upper body conditioning. my gymnasts haven't link their hands before (except when we do candle stick...

yeah we have done them from the covered springboard also (actually at the end of the video there is a very low and OLD wooden spring board under the mat) but didn't do them today from the real spring board because both of them were used elsewhere. the girls also say that they don't like doing...