Drills and Progressions Guide
Coaching James Part 2: Round off BackHandspring,
Monday, August 14th, 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 […]
Coaching James Part 1: Round off BackHandspring, Matrix Imagery, Movement Patterns Programming
Monday, August 14th, 2006
From: Mack
Mailed-By: gmail.com
To: magicsooty
Date: Aug 5, 2006 10:17 AM
Subject: Round off …..later
I’ll email you the round off tip tonight if it applies.
Tell me what happens when you do your round off rebound?
when you do Ro BH?
when you do RO BH Tuck?
What do they look like?
What have your coaches told you, what have they done?
Read […]
Program Patterns of Movement for Success: How Doing Round-off Backhandspring Rebound first before doing two backhandsprings in a row can help you succeed and prevent problems.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006There was a time at work when we had an accident with a Cheerleader; she was supposed to do round-off to two backhandsprings. She told the coach, with confidence, “I’m doing two backhandsprings; can you spot the second one?”
The coach, let’s call him David, stepped backward and was looking for the second backhandspring. She […]
Video: Going Long and creating targets for better back-handsprings
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006Video: Mack’s Hollow Layout Drill
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006June 09, 2006
Video: Mack’s Hollow Layout Drill
The most common technique for doing the lay-out is to bring arms up on rebound and then bring it down in front of the hips keeping arms straight, fingers extended. And it’s how I teach it.
When you bring your arms down fast when in the air, at […]
Half- Rudi: Coach Mack’s Preferred Double Full Method
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006May 31, 2006
Half- Rudi: Coach Mack’s Preferred Double Full Method
For Cheerleaders:
Ok, so you have your full and now you want to step it up to a double full and impress your friends. What do you do? Just “pull harder” like everyone else says?
Well, there is a method….many methods, approaches, drills, and progressions that […]
Twist and Point! Mack’s Preferred Full Twist Method
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006May 20, 2006
Twist and Point!
Starbucks on Saturday afternoon:
My boy (Coach) Anthony was working on “Chinese Taps” on pipe (high bar) so he can get deeper insights into coaching and teaching highly complex dismounting skills like:
* Double Layouts
* “Full Out” Double layouts
* “Full In, Full out” Double layouts
* “Double-Double”- Double Twisting Double Layout (full and another […]
To move Forward, Take a Step Back: How I got Roy to do a round-off Backhandspring Tuck while others failed
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006May 12, 2006
To Move Forward, Take a Step Back: How I got Roy to do a Round off Back-hanspring Tuck while others failed.
I had a student at a previous cheerleading gym I used to work for; let’s call him Roy. Roy was, I think 8 or 9 years old.
Roy was working his round off […]
She Went Long: Teaching The Backhandspring; One of Mack’s magical moments.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006May 05, 2006
She Went Long -One of Mack’s “Magical Moments”
We looked at each other. I said, “You’re always looking around and avoiding things.”
“I don’t know what to do,” she said.
“What do you need….What are you working on?”
“I need two backhandsprings.”
There had been a dead stop in everyone’s productivity. They’re getting tired.
I said, […]
Tumbling Drill/Progression: Use Barani to finish the Full-Twist
Monday, July 10th, 2006Here’s a follow up for the previous private email to the cheer gym owner:
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Just to clarify:
In the last email we discussed:>…
The reason she likes to twist LEFT for someone who does a round off with a “Right Leg Lunge- Right hand down first” is because the right- leg- lunge -round-off is actually a left-twisting movement. […]
Tumbling: “Which Way Should I go?” ; Twisting Directions
Monday, July 10th, 2006April 07, 2006
Cheer Tumbling: “Which way should I go?” Twisting Direction
The following is an email I sent to a cheer gym owner about how I would teach the twisting direction according to the cheerleaders round off direction. Names have been deleted or changed to protect the guilty…I mean the innocent:
Dear @##@%%%,
I just wanted to give […]
