

This is an easy exercise to add to your gymnast’s day at home if she is trying to master her back extension roll (perhaps for Level 4). The first exercise in this video is spiderman-against-the-wall with the gymnast’s hands turned in for back extension roll conditioning.
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Your gymnast can practice them on a panel mat (along with her splits!).Ĭheck out more drills and exercises for learning how to do a split leap. Leaps are a great gymnastics exercise to practice at home. In this video, she describes a simple trick to improve your gymnast’s leaps. This is a clip from the Developing Leaps & Jumps DVD by Tammy Biggs. The hurdle arm swings your gymnast can practice at home with light weights, along with the needles with a band.Ĭheck out more drills and exercises for learning how to do a roundoff. The Lunge T-Holds are a great exercise your gymnast can do at home, focusing on keeping her body really tight with all her muscles squeezed. To practice on a straight line like she does, you can make a line with athletic tape on a panel mat. In the beginning of the video, the gymnast does a cartwheel and a cartwheel step-in.

Obviously the drills requiring a spot, and the drills that involve a resi mat can’t! Many of the drills shown in this video, Roundoff Progressions, can be done at home. This video was filmed at Bounce-Hartland Sports Center. This drill can be done in the gym.Ĭheck out more drills and exercises for learning how to do a handstand. These are a perfect way for your gymnast to practice at home.ĭo not try the handstand fall to your back drills unless you have a proper 8 inch mat. The handstand against the wall drills help gymnasts practice their body shapes and get comfortable with being vertical. You don’t want your gymnast to hurt herself doing something she isn’t flexible enough to do. Your gymnast can do these pretty much anywhere.īe careful before having your gymnast try any of the strength and flexibility drills at home.

The video goes through the lunge, the lunge-T-lunge and the straight position. The beginning of the video has drills on learning positions which are great for practicing at home. Only some of them can be done at home.Įven though the video title says 6 year olds, these exercises are good for any beginner. This video, filmed at Bounce Gymnastics, has some great drills for practicing handstands. IF YOU ARE UNDER 18, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PARENTAL SUPERVISION AND PERMISSION. These videos are only meant to give you an idea of some ways to do gymnastics at home.īecause of all the videos in this post, if it doesn’t load on your phone or iPad, you might need to view it on a computer.ĭO NOT ATTEMPT ANY EXERCISE FOR WHICH YOU DON’T HAVE THE PROPER EQUIPMENT. Not every exercise in the videos can be done at home. You can click on the gymnastics skill or event below to find the right videos. They are organized by the skill you are trying to master, or the event on which you want to improve. Here are a collection of videos to help you practice gymnastics at home.
