profmom
Proud Parent
After watching the Yurchenko thread, I'm curious to hear about how your children's coaches do vault progressions. My DD is L7 training L8 but will probably compete new 7 next season. They started doing Tsuk drills during L5 and Yurchenko drills during L6. Last competitive season, the only time they worked on front handsprings at all was the week before each meet -- all of their other vault practices were devoted to Yurchenko drills. The girls have to have a safe, compete-able Yurchenko to move up to L8 at this gym. DD has two teammates who will almost certainly compete L8 next year as 10 year olds, and both look like they'll have their pikes.
On the boys' side, I've heard from other parents that they previously didn't do much to start training the flipping vaults until late L6, but my DS and his group, who just competed L5 this past season, have since states been doing some of the same Tsuk drills I remember my DD doing as a L5. What seems odd to me is that they haven't yet learned the L6 front handspring (which is the same vault the girls do at 5, 6, and 7). But I guess I'd rather have the guys get slightly lower vault scores as L6s and compete safe flipping vaults when they're L8s!
How does it work for your boys and girls?
On the boys' side, I've heard from other parents that they previously didn't do much to start training the flipping vaults until late L6, but my DS and his group, who just competed L5 this past season, have since states been doing some of the same Tsuk drills I remember my DD doing as a L5. What seems odd to me is that they haven't yet learned the L6 front handspring (which is the same vault the girls do at 5, 6, and 7). But I guess I'd rather have the guys get slightly lower vault scores as L6s and compete safe flipping vaults when they're L8s!
How does it work for your boys and girls?