kip

Tinker Bell, repeating L3, is working kip-FHC with the hope of competing a kip later this season. She says that when she kips straight into her FHC, the kip does not put her in the right position to do the FHC with straight arms. She insists that her kip has straight arms and that her kip-cast...

My girls have been so fixated on getting their kip.. I watched them practice lately and even though they claimed to be "so close", it didn't look like it to me. I was just really hoping they would get it before next season so they would have a hope of moving up to L4. But then they both got...

So I accidentally found myself in the coaches forum when I clicked on new posts. There was a coach discussion about tips for a child who was having a tough time getting their kip. One of the coaches said that if they are not getting a good jump to the bar that it will make the glide and Kip much...

Bars for my kid not her strong suit. Her kips at L5 still have slightly bent arms. Is there any conditioning at home that would help? If not its fine. it is between her, her coaches and her training.

DS7 has been a bear for the past few days. Just general bad attitude, being mean to his sister, and doing stuff like throwing a pencil across the room if you ask him to pass it to him. Naturally, this sets me off and then he's upset because EVERYONE is yelling at him. *sigh* He claims that...

Hi! My DD got her kip in the Spring (used palm grips at the time). Her coach recommended that she get dowel grips so she started using those around the beginning of July, I think. She cannot seem to do her kip with them! She thought she "lost" it over the lil break they had because she's heard...

I have a kid who has made a few kips in straps here and there, but isn't very consistent. She has a good pull and can get herself up when I spot only her legs, but rarely makes it if I only spot her back. She'll bring her toes to the bar, but won't hold them in. She is great at bar holds and leg...

My daughter aged 10 has been trying to get her kip for longer than 2 years, moved up to L4 without cause she was so close. Did well in beam , floor vault, but kip remained elusive only making it a few times in January, once at a meet. Many privates later still no kip. It is heartbreaking, we can...

Hi I have athletes that can do clear hips but always tap the mat before they kip back up ( low bar) Any suggestions

Hi everyone :D I have been working really hard on connecting a kip to a big cast - and I'm still struggling a little. I can hit horizontal on low bar now - which is fine, but I want to make it bigger. High bar I get a small cast and then have to do a second cast to hit a little over horizontal...

Question for coaches and judges. What is the deduction for coming out of a freehip, and when swinging down, into the second kip the hips are open at the bottom of the swing? I notice my munchie tends to have her belly out (!) or open hips at the bottom of this swing right before kipping back...

This is going to sound like a really stupid question, but I don't know the answer to it and the only way I will learn is to ask. :) When kids kip out of clear hips, I notice that as they come around the bar their toes come up to the bar in a deep pike before stretching out the glide and then...

Persistence paid off for DD (9YO) tonight. After training these for over a year (ok nearly 18 months) we have a kipper ..... finally! I'm not sure who this skill was going to kill first - me or her! :p Most of her team mates have had a kip (of varying degrees of prettiness) for what seems like...

DD told me this tonight. She is telling me kipping is painful. Any ideas? Not sure if this is form or medical or both.

Hi, I was wondering is someone could look at a video of dd's glide kip. She can do one with bent arms but isn't allowed to compete a kip until arms are straight so she's stuck in this limbo land of not having a bar routine until the last minute when it's decided she isn't going to have her kip...

I'm such a proud mama! My dd is a level 3, she just turned 8, and doesn't have her first competition (ever) until mid January. Today she got her kip, she did it like 10 times in a row, I nearly fainted! Her coach told her if she can clean it up she will compete with the kip instead of the glide...

I know this is a extremely hard skill I couldn't find a place with its difficulty value

Okay, I need everyone's secrets for kips! Switching to the JO system this year, has left everyone behind on bars, and half my group can't kip... They have less than a month to learn this (some can do them in straps), otherwise they're going to JO3, which I think we'll be even harder because...

First a small bit of background. My dd is in the middle of the competition season as a level 3. She is doing great at practices and at the meets and is not struggling with any of her level 3 skills. We are happy with her gym ,which has a good reputation at both the compulsory and optional...

I have a friend whose daughter did not struggle for her kip at all -it came a few weeks after she started working on it -just like any skill. Is this extremely unusual or are there other stories like this? I'm just curious -it's a skill with such a huge reputation but my DD hasn't gotten there...