Advanced Gymnastics Competition Tips Video

Gymnastics can be a lot of fun especially at the advanced level. Learn some tips about the level of skill you should have for gymnastics competitions

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Jordan Dahl has been coaching gymnastics for 3 years and competing for the last 9 years.

Hi. My name's Jordan Dahl. We're talking about advanced floor gymnastics. And the next thing I wanted to talk about was your really upper level advanced tumbling passes. It could be any combination of the things we've been talking about in the previous clips. I'm not going to demonstrate them for you because this is something that you really need to have an instructor there to help you with to make sure that you are performing it correctly with the proper technique. And to make sure that you stay safe. That you're not putting yourself in danger. Some super advanced techniques that you might want to consider could be a pass something like a round off Arabian, double Arabian into a round off with back handspring full layout double full and sticking it. Really any combination that you can come up with that you feel comfortable with. Again, you need to make sure that you're not pushing yourself too far above your skill level. You need to make sure you're training the basics before you add these things on top of them. Something you can do to find these clubs that will be really dedicated towards these upper levels. You can go on the Internet and find where the different clubs are, how much they are, how often the train. It can be really helpful if you plan on pursuing this. Plan on really continuing your training. As you start attending college and universities don't expect them to have a gymnastics program. There are actually a lot fewer universities that have a gymnastics program today than there were in the past. That doesn't mean that they don't exist anymore but just keep that in your mind as you apply. As an effort to kind of balance out the sport schools have been cutting off more of men's gymnastics than women's gymnastics. So the women's program is still quite prevalent in universities whereas men's gymnastics is quite lower as compared to women's. Now we've just been talking about the floor

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