What's the point of doing the pike stretch with your feet on top of a mat? It seems like the angle is the same as doing it on the floor? Maybe you get a better position that is easier to stretch foward? Or do the coaches like to stretch you in pike that way so it's harder to get out of it!

I didnt know the boys wear leotards too when I started. I thought the girls wear leotards and the boys wear tight tank tops tucked into their shorts or pants lol.

Yuck, that sounds soooooooo gross to share rip scissors...!

another gymnastics release move: Shushunova [youtube]84RKUMOpo-s[/youtube] anyone have a kovacs by a girl video? here's a gymnast named Kovacs: Krisztina Kovacs - 1989 Worlds AA - Uneven Bars [youtube]SWJyUnRfDWo[/youtube] jump to high bar, counter swing, comaneci what's that next release move called?

Cool! When's your first class?

yuck, popped and probably ripped rips. do you have the pictures?

do you have the links to their youtube videos?

Good job!

I got it good now! Yay!! :D

I got it good now! Yay!! :D

It said on the Disney channel today that 20% of Olympic athletes have asthma.

For rolling out of handstand, it's easier if you bend your arms when you roll, then later when you get good at it, you can practice it with arms straight and maybe with a couple of spots from your coach too. To get rid of the thump after your handstand from going over, stay hollow! The roll is easier to do after falling over from handtand if you wait too long to come out of the handstand, like[ Read More... ]

Sometimes when I do handstand, I go over without doing the forward roll or turn to come out of it - and then thump! I guess I don't have the hollow position to get to the roll part. Which is better - forward roll or the turn to come out of handstand?