How To Do Dismounts On The Uneven Bars Video

After performing the difficult routines on the high bar, it is time for perhaps the most difficult move, the dismount. Learn how to dismount from the uneven bars from a professional coach in this gymnastics video.

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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.

We're going to talk about bar dismounts for a little bit now. Once you get up there and you've swung through this whole incredible routine, you have to get off the bar. As you progress to higher levels of competition, there are more requirements for your dismount. The difficulty level has to increase. And as you get to the Olympic level, it is usually one of the hardest things that they do, is their dismount. You start with a basic flyaway, which is basically a swing and a tuck and release so that you do a back flip off the bar. You can also do pike position. You can do a layout position. Once you've mastered those, you can start adding a twist to it or you can start doing multiple flipping like double backs. And if you're really good, like at the Olympic level, you're going to do multiple twisting and flipping, so they'll be flipping over more than once and twisting. This is going to be a layout flyaway. It's to be--still from giants. This time, as she releases the bars, she's going to be in a very tight, straight body, legs together position on the upswing and release and do one flip in a straight body position. [DEMONSTRATION] Okay, I will be showing a tucked double back. Again, you have to show the tucked position. There will be two rotations. Normally, when you're doing a harder dismount, you start accelerating your giant even faster around the bar. [DEMONSTRATION] Okay.

How to do Dismounts on the Uneven Bars Video

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