I now have three drafts in my post section. All drafts because in the middle of each one, I started talking the "gymnastics talk" and thought to myself, hmm, I should probably tell my readers what this means before I post this. So then I start another one and do the same thing. So now, I am going to give an short explanation for every basic bars skill I can think of.
Kip: The hardest skill you will every try to learn as a child. Me? It took me six months to finally get it. Oh, and after six frustrating months of trying it everyday, over and over, where did I finally make it? At a birthday party. Go me. It's the swingy thing that all real gymnasts do to get up on the bar.
Cast: How you get from front support to a handstand. They can be either straddle or straight body.
Free-Hip: The source of my failure on bars. It seems like a simple skill, but it's not. For me, that is. It is all about timing and commitment. You start in a handstand, circle the bar and land back into a handstand, without every touching any part of your body to the bar.
Giant: You start in a handstand and then just circle the bar in a straight body. For something so easy to explain, it actually involves a lot of physics and body positions.
Now I can get into some of the cool releases we have started doing drills for!
Tkatchev: You start by doing a giant. As you come around the backside of the bar (3/4 the way around), you let go and fling yourself over the bar and then catch it on the other side. (Here is a short gif to clear things up.)
Hindorff: A Hindorff actually shares the same basic concept as a Tkatchev, except instead of doing a giant to enter the skill, you do a free-hip and then throw the bar and flip forwards and then catch it. :) Watch this freaking amazing release here.
In case you have been wondering why all the funky names, when a gymnast competes a skill for the first time in competition, s/he gets to name it, which often end up being the gymnast's last name. So Tkatchev, Hindorff, Yaeger, Gienger, Delchev, Yurchanko, Tsukahara, and all the others skills that are hard to pronounce are people. :)
~Rose
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| How to do a kip for dummies. And gymnasts. :) Photo Courtesy of: Buzzle |
Cast: How you get from front support to a handstand. They can be either straddle or straight body.
Free-Hip: The source of my failure on bars. It seems like a simple skill, but it's not. For me, that is. It is all about timing and commitment. You start in a handstand, circle the bar and land back into a handstand, without every touching any part of your body to the bar.
Giant: You start in a handstand and then just circle the bar in a straight body. For something so easy to explain, it actually involves a lot of physics and body positions.
Now I can get into some of the cool releases we have started doing drills for!
Tkatchev: You start by doing a giant. As you come around the backside of the bar (3/4 the way around), you let go and fling yourself over the bar and then catch it on the other side. (Here is a short gif to clear things up.)
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| Photo Courtesy of: All Stars |
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| Look! I added a GIF! |
Hindorff: A Hindorff actually shares the same basic concept as a Tkatchev, except instead of doing a giant to enter the skill, you do a free-hip and then throw the bar and flip forwards and then catch it. :) Watch this freaking amazing release here.
In case you have been wondering why all the funky names, when a gymnast competes a skill for the first time in competition, s/he gets to name it, which often end up being the gymnast's last name. So Tkatchev, Hindorff, Yaeger, Gienger, Delchev, Yurchanko, Tsukahara, and all the others skills that are hard to pronounce are people. :)
~Rose
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