It is important to learn uneven bar progressions and skills when beginning gymnastics. Learn how to begin performing on the uneven bars from a professional coach in this gymnastics video.
Maintain good body extension
Use good form
Must be in control
Keep arms & legs straight
Mark Velasquez is a professional gymnastics coach with Crenshaw Athletic Club in Austin, TX. Crenshaw Athletic Club is home to junior olympic performers as well as the University of Texas gymnastics team.
Hello. Welcome to Crenshaw Athletic Club. My name is Mike Wood and I'm the head girls' coach here. I've been the head coach here for 29 years, and today we're going to go over some uneven bar progressions and skills. There are different skills that the girls have to master as they do uneven bars. There are some that are in support and some that are swing. Ultimately, it is an event that involves a lot of swing with the body extended and swinging around the bar. They are also required to do in-bar work and they do a lot of work in support on their hands and with their shoulders over the bar. Many years ago, the uneven bars were much closer than they are now and the gymnasts used to do skills where they were actually beating or wrapping the bar, where they would wrap around with their hips and maybe release from one bar to the other, where they would beat the bar and stand on the bar. These days, the bars are much wider and the girls do not do those skills anymore. They will do extended or giant swings around the bar in different grips in different directions. When they compete at the compulsory level, the girls would do routines that are all the same. They're doing developmental skills so they can learn higher-level skills and move on to an optional level. When they get to the optional level, we get to make up their routines. The routines are individualized to that gymnast and to their strength though there are still requirements for each level as far as the difficulty and things like bar changes, changes of directions in the routine, and dismount difficulties. Yes, on the uneven bars, you'll hear--if you ever watch it on TV or you're watching a competition, the skills all have names. Sometimes those names might sound like a person's name, and it is. If someone completes a skill as like and when they're competing in an international event, the skill can be named after them. Shannon Miller has a skill named after her on uneven bars and there are a lot of other American gymnasts that have had skills named after them on the bar.
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