Hey Dave, been following your work for a while and just wanted to say thanks. I do hand balancing for circus and your tips are very valuable in that realm as well.
Great little video. You are doing the gymnastic, calisthenics and yoga commhnity a great service with your vid series. I always see people dealing with one or two bits of the problem but finally someone covered it nearly all off. Just should have mentioned perhaps also spreading the load out of the vunerable wrist and into the hand and fingers.
#shift24club I am currently a gymnastics coach for a team out in Illinois and we are always looking for new drills and technique work. The girls and I love watching your videos and learning new things.
i tend to have a very straight handstand and don’t know how to like “round” the back when i’m in the handstand, i can hollow my back but just can’t seem to apply it when i’m in the handstand. are there any tips or conditioning to help that?
It’s unfortunately tough to offer specific advice online. Sorry about that! I would try to work with a gymnastics coach and see if they can maybe screen things out for you and get to the bottom of it. Best of luck!
thanks. If the head is the only thing i cannot balance. What do you think is the problem? i can send you a video if you want. i can balance all the body except the head thank you in advance.
I have an athlete that is excessively “hypo”-mobile. Every joint and structure of his body that I’ve noticed is restricted, even the knuckles of his fingers. Posterior pelvic tilt, very rounded shoulders, extremely tight hamstrings and so on.
Hi, I come from Olympic weightlifting and work as a S&C coach. I recently took the opportunity to coach young gymnasts. It's a real challenge for me with all the crazy stuffs they need to do. I give you some topics that will be helpful for me as a gymnastic coach starting from scratch. Have you a guideline that sum up the basics skills/elements a gymnast needs to master in her career (chronologically) in your opinion ? Considering her goal is progression/competition oriented. How you deal with teams of athletes of different levels and consequently with different needs. Are you choosing one situation and increasing/decreasing goal's difficulty based on the gymnast's level and your team planification or multiple situations in the same training which mean different annual plans for gymnasts in a same team ? I'm mostly looking for practical advices or real examples. Thank you for sharing good stuff! Keep going
Hey Leah, thanks for this! Awesome about you working with gymnasts 🙌 These are all really good things to think about, and I can definitely start to brainstorm ideas and put it on the list for future topics 🙏
Thanks for this! Very helpful! Also interested in how to maintain shapes or body tension while in motion- We have a lot of gymnasts that can do the conditioning and the static holds, but can't "punch" tight when tumbling and can't maintain their body tension while flipping/twisting in air.
So glad to hear it helped! Yes, that is definitely a more challenging skill to learn how to maintain body tension during active motion. A lot of the times it comes down to slowly building up drills that increase the speed and power one step at a time, and hopefully helping those concepts to transfer between all those progressions up. This is why trampoline is so valuable. It slows things down a little bit and helps them feel more of the positions that are needed. It’s definitely tough!
