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Coaching James Part 2: Round off BackHandspring,
By Mack | August 14, 2006
……….Do you have any drills (to keep legs straight)?
Yes.
Drill #1. Walk your feet up against a wall and walk your hands back towards the wall in handstant till you get to 2 feet (your hands) in front of the wall.
Make sure you:
* push through your shoulders
* squeeze your legs and butt together
* your toes should be on the wall, feet together, LEGS STRAIGHT.
* and keep your stomack tight
Hold this position as long as you can. Then do it 5 to 10 times per day. Time yourself each time.
Drill #2. Face the wall standing 5 feet from it. Arms up by your ears, get into a deep lunge, and do a handstand with your back towards the wall.
Walk your hands away from the wall untill they are 2 to 3 feet away from the wall.
* Get the bottom of your feet flat against the wall while
* keeping your legs straight
* keep pushing through your shoulders (this will work out the other side of the shoulder muscles; the first part of the back handspring.)
* Make sure you look between your hands on this drill (and the drill above) with your eyes rolled up, not with your head all the way back.
Drill #3. Rebound straight jumps. With arms up straight, slightly in front of your ears, keep your legs straight and bounce on your feet.
Do this for 30 seconds straight. You must
* NOT bend your legs; keep them straight and rebound
This will program your brain to keep them straight when you punch off the floor from your round off.
Send that video.
More below;
…oh and that matrix thing REALLY helped get my roundoff sorted and is fixing my overblock problem. (See Coaching James Part 1 for the matrix imagery)
Pretty cool, right? What other coach would have thought of that? Imagery is very powerful. Not just positive imagery and visualization of goals, but fantasy, dream-like, off-the-wall, images, work a lot better- Like Magic. Your subconscious mind understand these better which by the way controls most of your behaviour anyway.Oh, make sure Neo punches you in the chest, not your head. That would make you throw your head back. Although that might help if you’re actually doing the backhandsprings off the round off. This is for the round-off rebound.
my roundoffs are still with crooked legs as shown in that movie do you have any drills ?
What part of the round off are your legs crooked?
Just saw the video. Just work on your round offs with feet together.
Coach, your advice is so good, it makes me think not only are you an excellent coach but you could be a good pycholigist, too!!!
Coaching is Psychology Applied.
Your drills are great I just tried them out. They should do the trick.
have you got the windows media format video yet I sent it yesterday?
and hey you have gotta love your advice when it comes to using the matrix as imagery for the backhandspring. lots of people could benifit from this stuff. Hows your websites coming on?
your drills are great I just tried them out they should do the trick
Hey, how about using periods and commas so I don’t have to read 3 times. 
(to coachmack.com readers: I corrected some grammatical errors of his emails for your convenience. Although, I make many myself)
Yeah. The drills are great. Here’s what other coaches don’t get: They believe that
by doing the skill directly will accelerate their learning; the movement patterns necessary
for the skill. In fact, most of the time, they actually slow their learning because by going directly
at it they reinforce inferior technique into their athlete’s “neurology”.
In short, if you kept doing what you were doing, it would actually be harder and harder to get out of
the bad habits; you would be reinforcing them.
have you got the windows media format video yet.
Yeah, I did.
I actually edited it, too. Then my laptop crashed and my internet at home is down.
I’m at the Library right now…
I sent it yesterday
and hey you have gotta love your advice when it comes to using the matrix as imagery for the backhandspring lots of people could benifit from this stuff hows your websites coming on?
Yeah. You know, believe it or not, not too many people at the cheerleading gym go to my site, coachmack.com and it’s posted in the gym ( a big poster). It would save me a lot of time if they did.
To do it right, I would need 4,000 dollars to launch the websites the way I want them. I don’t have that, yet. I’ve been thinking lately of partnering with a friend who coaches with me and another well known tumbling coach in my area.
That’s awesome that you love my tips/advice/coaching. I actually have not even explained to you the technique for better turn-over on your round-off. I haven’t even started yet.
Coach Mack
Lol ok coach,i’ll try use commas in future
4000 dollars is alot of cash I hope you do get enough money soon, though and I hope your sites up and running soon.
It’s true about how coaches try rush you into learning a skill straight off,I my self have wasted weeks getting over mental blocks created by jumping head first trying to learn new skills with no prior drills…It’s a shame some coaches think like that.
Any way,I wish you the best of luck with all your projects and about how not many of your gymnasts go to your sites. maybe next time they come to you for specific problem advice,you could refer them to coach mack dot com.
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