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 Pain
from Strength Training
What to do when your gymnast experiences pain from working out and
strength and conditioning training.
How
Many Hours of Practice?
Considerations to a number of questions about how many hours gymnasts
should be practicing.
What to do with a talented 6 year old who is not old enough for some levels
of competition.
A young gymnast asks what to do when she doesn't want to go to practice.
A Level 3 mom asks about nervousness in competition.
Some information and drills about learning a toe shoot to high bar (sole
circle catch the high bar).
Information about what is appropriate for gymnast's parents do to help
their gymnasts.
Do gyms put gymnasts on team just to make a profit or because they are
truly talented?
Information about what home practice beams are the best.
Answers and considerations about buying gymnastics home equipment.
Information about learning fulls
Our Favorite Email - Christmas Dream
A parent comments on our level of service committment.
Information for coaches on spotting twisting.
A perspective on dealing with gymnastics injuries.
Advice on whether to wear, picking and choosing dowel grips.
Some comments on how and when finding a high level/Elite program is necessary
and desirable.
Answer to a questions that explains the path to success in gymnastics and
life.
Trying to deal with the complicated questions when a gymnasts wants to
quit the sport.
Talking about progression and drills for learning handspring front vaults.
Kips are one of the most difficult skills for young beginner team gymnasts
to learn. Here are some hints and tips on how to do it.
Answering a question about how gymnasts become Elite.
Should a gymnast give up grips for learning kips?
e-Books vs. Books
Why we currently only publish and sell e-Books instead of regular books.
There is a common question as to whether gymnasts are starting the sport
too late. Find out the truth in answering this question.
Information about safely teaching and competing Yurchenko vaults.
Why competitive gym programs s may be better than recreational-only progams.
Some perspective on whether gymnasts should move up to the next competitive
level.
A parent asks a question about her daughter's flexibility and strength.
Coaches are asking a nine-year-old to choose between two sports and specialize
and concentrate on only one sport - theirs. What and who should parents
believe?
How to cure gymnasts of inadvertent full and regain lost back tuck.
Some common problems with full twisting layouts.
Description of the full twist arm wrapping technique for fulls, double
fulls and triple fulls.
A parent asks what they can do about a negative coach.
17 year old gymnasts asks for advice on being scared on beam.
List of dive roll progressions, hints and tips, common errors and discussion
of how to teach them
Advice on the training of young talented gymnasts and keeping them in the
sport.
A problem with learning and doing a back walkover as a result of an apparent
shoulder and/or lower back flexibility problem. Solution, exercises
and drills are provided.
A five year old gymnast is nervous and anxious about her class and keeps
wanting to come to her mom.
Answers to some questions about strength training for youg gymnasts and
athletes.
Some tips and drills for learning cartwheels.
Some perspective on a question about the lgal structure of a gym.
Design considerations regarding how high the ceiling of a gymnastics facility
should be including safety considerfations and saving money on utilities.
Answer to a question about the spelling and pronunciation of "barani."
Current Articles
Ask The Gymnastics Coach
Our mission is and always has been to spread information about the
sport of gymnastics to gymnasts, parents, coaches and gym owners.
We have always answered whatever questions were posed to us by members
of the gymnastics community and will continue to do so. We are now
going to take this space to share with you some of what we have shared
with them.
You Know What You Want to Know. Make Sure We Do.
We love to answer questions, but the biggest problem we have is that
questions are often so vague that it makes it difficult for us to figure
out what you really need and want to know.
Who, What, Why, Where, How and How Much
When you ask a question, please include as much information and be
as specific as possible in your question. The old newspaper concept
of including who, what, why, where, how and how much applies here.
Give us as much information about your situation and we will be able to
give you the best answer.
More Than One Sentence, Please
In particular, it is often necessary to know whether the gymnast is
male or female, how old, what level and as many specifics as possible.
The hardest questions for us to answer with any degree of usefulness are
one sentence questions.
Names Are Changed to Protect the Innocent (and the Guilty)
We have removed information and rewritten some answers to protect the
privacy of gymnasts and parents.
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