All of the flyers on the team I coach can double out of a stretch except one.. but she is tiny and we need to to fly. She gets around 1 1/2 times but can't ever get around 2 full times. I feel like I've said/ tried everything with her.. any advice?
Coaches: what to you tell your flyers to do for stretch doubles? Athletes: what do you do for them?
keep working on it and do whatever it is you did to get the other girls to double. its only the beginning of august so there is no rush. play it safe and progress correctly. If she's young and small, you don't want to rush her because she is part of the future of your gym.
keep working on it and do whatever it is you did to get the other girls to double. its only the beginning of august so there is no rush. play it safe and progress correctly. If she's young and small, you don't want to rush her because she is part of the future of your gym.
our coaches work with the girls on the trampoline and off of the end of the tumble track. Also, make sure she is taking it up first then slightly leaning, and pulling hard. When we had speed camp a couple weeks ago the girls told our flyers to slightly turn their head to the left and tuck it in on the left shoulder. you know?
i feel you! stretches are harder to double out of then (i think) anything else! something that helped me:
tell her to take the hip of the leg she's standing on and make it "touch" the hip of her stretch leg. also tell her that at the same time she needs to make the big toe of the foot she's standing meet her other big toe "in the middle." and of course, tuck her chin.
that should help her get the quick twitch action to help the twist. more often then not, unfinished doubles happen because the twist wasn't initiated tight and fast enough.
my daughter says to think about bringing both legs to meet in the middle as you are laying parallel to the ground..dont think about bringing the stretched leg down, but closing them together. that gives more time in the air. next, take the high v hand or free and and pull up then whip it around. sounds confusing to me but my daughter says it works
What I would suggest is you look at her stretch leg as she goes for her double. Im going to assume that she is attempting to twist over her left shoulder and that she is standing on her right leg. Make sure that her left leg/foot is rapping to the twist side of her ankle. Many times flyers tend to pull that left leg to the outside or the right side of her standing leg. When that happens the lower body and the upper body are actually twisting in two different directions fighting eachother as she attempts to twist. If she consentrates on pulling her left foot down pulling her heel to the back trying to make a "T" with her feet she should be able to make it all the way around.
If that doesn't work, what I have also seen as a major problem is that sometimes the flyer will twist over their right shoulder out of preps and extentions. But then when they go to one leg they are trying to twist left. When this occurs the flyers upper body tends to twist in the opposite direction of the lower body because of the training from twist from two leg stunts. Make sure that her upper body and lower body are all going in the same direction. The flyer needs her chin tuck in to her shoulder in a hallow body position to make it around. If her head is out and looking over the wrong shoulder she wil not make her double.
