Recent content by Shee

Try it from kneeling. Makes you really work to push hard off the ground. Just 1 idea :)

You have access to mats and stuff yes?! As beth said, you're closing your shoulder angle which is 'drilling you into the ground'. When my kids do this I have two drills I like to do. 1. Do the first part of the back handspring as far as the handstand, then with a mat in, fall to your tummy...

Hmmm, the kids I coach don't really have any weird ones, just the plain old regular habits like counting, rolling ankles and wrists... Definately a nervous thing!

Although the her stomach was doing somersaults (get the pun ;) haha), she pulled away.... She couldn't do this, not tonight, not with Olympic Trials tomorrow...

Congratulations! I love how excited you got at 0:51... Nothing like a new skill to put a smile on your face!

Hmmmm this is a toughie! All time: Oksana Omelianchik - Such a joy to watch! Or Shawn Johnson/Kim Zmeskal/Lilia Podkopayeva. Currently Competing: Love Sacramone and her determination... Ana Porgras... Bross has grown on me recently... Too hard to choose one! Favourite American: Kim...

When you say "I have plenty of time to flip, so I could try".. You mean with spotting right?! My tip... Keep working the timers until you feel confident enough to do the skill! Don't feel pressured into doing it!

Her coach finally gave in eh?! :) At least the coach can train her the skill correctly now rather than her picking up the bad habits that trampolines tend to bring!! Good luck to her, hopefully she'll be throwing an awesome BHS soon! :)

Aw thanks a million, always nice to have another persons opinion!! I'll let you know :)

Whoo, first Irish :) No we have our own system here. Levels 1 through to 10 and onto Junior Code and Elite. The system is just in the process of a revamp, and things are looking up for Irish Gymnastics with new coaching education available etc. I was only looking into a camp there in...

Hi, Just making my introductions here, so I'll start at the start :) My name is Sheenagh aka Shee. I'm from Dublin in Ireland. I'm a full time gymnastics coach and pretty much just a gymnastic fanatic. I joined up here because of all the useful forums and I reckon the feedback here is going...