How To Do A Glide Kip On The Uneven Bars Video

The glide kip is one of the first and most difficult skills to learn on the uneven bars in gymnastics. Learn how to perform a glide kep properly from a professional coach in this gymnastics video.

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Many requirements
Begin with fly aways
Move to twists
Very difficult

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Mike Wood 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. We're going to talk a little bit about a glide kip. It's one of the first and hardest skills that you'll learn when you're starting out with gymnastics. You have to start with a good swing on the bar, a good glide swing, and we're going to have [PH]Nicole demonstrate a glide swing real quick. Go ahead, Nicole. [DEMONSTRATION] Okay. The combination of timing and strength that it takes to make a kip is part of what makes this a difficult trick because after you learn a good glide swing, you will learn to glide and then to pike, to use your muscles to pull your feet to the bar. Yeah, okay. All right, then the timing of the opening in the hips and the pull with your arms and shoulders and body tightness is what will get you on top of the bar. This trick is used at every level of gymnastics from beginner to Olympian.

How to do a Glide Kip on the Uneven Bars Video

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