WAG What is a lightning bolt on bars?

[1canadiangymmom]

My dd says that they have been working on this, but I cannot figure out what she is talking about. I have googled it and nothing gymnastics related comes up. Is there another name for this?

 

[Honey]

Maybe a description of what she said the skill looks like would help?

 

[1canadiangymmom]

Maybe I should get a better description from her, but from what I remember, it is a bar change from low to highbar, as an upgrade from just a jump to highbar. I thought the name might ring a bell with someone.

 

[Canadian_gym_mom]

Go to the Canada forum and look at Alex's Gymnix video. The transition from low bar to high bar is the lightning. I think my daughters old gym used to call it a Chinese something. If you YouTube National Novice Gymnastics, most of the bar routines include the lightning.

 

[1canadiangymmom]

Thanks Canadian_gym_mom.

 

[Muddlethru]

It is hard to keep track of all the skills let alone several names for any given skill. If I am looking at the right video (toe circle to a straddle switching from low bar to high bar) gyms in our area calls that a hiccup!

 

[flips123]

Go to the Canada forum and look at Alex's Gymnix video. The transition from low bar to high bar is the lightning. I think my daughters old gym used to call it a Chinese something. If you YouTube National Novice Gymnastics, most of the bar routines include the lightning.

It's a Chinese sit up (or hiccup)! It's a basically some sort of underwing (toe on-toe off/sole circle) with a straddled leg hop to high bar.

(Not my video, just one that I found on YouTube)

 

[1canadiangymmom]

yes I think that is what she was describing. Is that the same as a Toe shoot to highbar then?

 

[Honey]

That's funny, my kid is working on those too. Never heard it called a lightning bolt though! Around here it's the "Chinese thingie". I believe that is the technical term.

 

[Empowered]

I think this is one of those skills referred to with a few different names. At my daughter's current gym they call it an uphill, but where we used to live they called it a toe shoot.

Kind of like the whole overshoot/bail thing - I think some skills pick up different slang names regionally.

 

[1canadiangymmom]

Ha Ha. Too many names for 1 skill.

 

[bogwoppit]

Lets not even get started on what the Quebec names for skills are.

 

[Iwannabemargo]

I think Pink told me she was working on this and called it a Mo

 

[Deleted member D3987]

oh, well...we hook a 24 volt battery to the men's steel bar. how else do you think us Americans get so high on our release moves? the boys get lightning bolted at the end of their taps.

 

[Dr Maleficent]

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oh, well...we hook a 24 volt battery to the men's steel bar. how else do you think us Americans get so high on our release moves? the boys get lightning bolted at the end of their taps.

What on earth do the Dutch do then?

 

[Deleted member 18037]

Would love to know why Chinese or maybe not

And I just happened to catch the end of practice last week and saw my kid do this toe/sole circle thing (with spot), what level is this? Had a holy cow when did that happen moment.

 

[Ponyshine]

We call it mo

 

[All Chalked Up]

Kip catch here

 

[my4buffaloes]

Uphill for us.

 

[Redford]

A "flyer" over here