Tammy Biggs presentation on the importance of basics on each event from the 2009 congress season

1. THE IMPORTANCE OF
BASICS ON EACH EVENT!
ARE YOU DOING IT RIGHT!
RE YOU DOING IT RIGHTE
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2. THE NEEDLE KICK!
MUST HAVE ONE!
It is the most important shape to
have to turn over everything!
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3. WAYS TO TRAIN THE NEEDLE
SHAPE!
 Needle kicks are done on every event!
 Static with holds and pulls, ballistic in a
row, with tubing, with weights.
 You should see the needle turn over skills.
If you do not see needle you will see the
chest down and the body bent in half. Not
good!
 It turns over cartwheels, round offs,
handsprings, and all aerials skills!
 Use the slider for all kicking skills and you
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4. FLAT HIPS IN ALL BASICS SKILLS!
 Use sliders: on knees slide out to flat hips and
pull back up.
 Side cartwheel to handstand and hold with flat
hips. Do against a wall so they can touch their
hips.
 Then go square to center flat hip hold and
square landing.
 Do glide shape with sliders, use wedge mat at
bars and train the long shape to pike legs into
bar.
 Handstand in a split (middle of back walkover
and back handspring) and step down with hips
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5. SIDE CARTWHEEL TO HOLD!
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6. HANDSTAND STEP DOWN WITH
FLAT HIPS
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7. The Chest ROLL !
 From knee on an 8 inch mat do a chest roll!
 Then from a stand on 8 inch mat do a chest
roll!
 Now from knee do a front handspring to
high releve and chest roll. Never do from a
stand! Only from knee!
 With bands on do fly springs across the
tumble track in a row!
 Front limber up to one and two panel mats!
 Walk up bridge on mats between the bars
and stand up!
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8. KNEE CHEST ROLL!
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9. STRAIGHT BODY ROLL!
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10. FRONT LIMBER TO CHEST ROLL!
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11. FRONT HANDSPRING TO CHEST
ROLL!
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12. CANDLE STICK!
 Against the wall or mats!
 Shoot to candle up the wall!
 Candle pull off the wall.
 Shoot up to candle and snap off the wall!
 On landing mats from pike shape shoot to
candle, travel, and hold in candle at the end!
 Candle shoot to bridge!
 Jump to resi mats to a candle and pull a pike!
 Jump onto a barrel to candle and pull a pike
and layout step out.
 Swing to candle off bars for a dismount , pac,
and shoot over!
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13. SQUAT STAND UPS AND HOPS!
 Across the floor do squat hops. Plain, with
one mat and then with two!
 Stand up sit down: two leg, one leg on each
side! Do on floor and beam!
 Candle stick stand ups to hop, then do on
one and two panel mats!
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14. STRAIGHT LEG PUNCHES!
 Across the floor! Forward, sideward, and
backward.
 Off of the beam! Punches, handstand
punch, back walkover punch, cartwheel
punch, back handspring, and round off.
 Punch drills off the board!
 Over panel mats punches!
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15. ONE LEG DRILLS!
HALF OF OUR GYMNASTIC SKILLS
ARE DONE FROM ONE FOOT!
 One leg stand up and sit down.
 One leg hops with leg straight and with leg
up onto a mat as hop out of bottom foot.
 Stand ups onto blocks with one foot. Then
hop and last hop and kick.
 Candle stick hop ups without panel and
with panel mat.
 Straight leg skips on floor and beam!
 One hops: straight and bent.
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16. TUCK JUMPS ONTO MATS!
• Do tuck jumps up onto mats hip or rib
high.
• Do forward from stand and straighten when
arrive on the mat.
• This is done forward and backward.
• The hips should rise in this drill then shape
the tuck.
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17. LONG PUSH UP SHAPE!
 Do on ground, between mats, between
boards
 Do with walks, hops and sliders. Pull in the
push up shape, start in pike and walk out
to push up and them pull the legs back into
pike.
 Do with skills: handstand, cartwheels,
round offs, back walkovers and back
handsprings. So the gymnast does a snap
into and long push up shape on a 8 inch
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18. SNAP UNDER DRILLS!
 Start with a handstand and pike down.
 Then use sliders and slide through arms to
go to long shape
 On 8 inch mat do a straight body fall back
 Round off to back on 8 inch mat.
 Using two panel mats on top of an 8 inch
mat go handstand pick down and through
arms.
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19. STRAIGHT BODY FALL BACK!
LEAD UP TO SCOOP THROUGH!
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20. ANOTHER DRILL FOR THE
SCOOP!
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21. THEN GO FROM HANDSTAND!
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22. CARTWHELL TO FALL BACK!
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23. ROUND OFF TO BACK!
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24. A LUNGE IS ONLY TO FINISH
SKILLS!
TO MUCH LUNGING DESTROYS
BEAM TUMBLING!
 To much lunging make the gymnast buckle on
beam, floor and vault!
 They must know how to step and snap down
out of skills with straight legs. Which is not
being done enough!
 Do handstand step down on one foot flat and
on toe! The hips should be square and flat so
the back leg is low not high!
 Then it turns into punching straight leg on toe!
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25. HOW THE LUNGE CAUSES SKILLS
TO BUCKLE!
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26. BASIC SKILLS BETWEEN MATS
AND UP ONTO MATS!
 Do cartwheel, back walkover, and front
walkover between mats!
 Do all the root skills up onto panel mats or 8
inch mat.
 Do all skills one arm!
 Then take the one arm up onto mats!
 Then the root skills go over panel mats.
Walkovers, cartwheel, round off and back
handsprings.
 All skills also go to a handstand with legs
together then in a split that fits the skill.
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27. SIDE CARTWHEEL BETWEEN
MATS!
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28. SQUARE CARTWHEEL BETWEEN
MATS!
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29. WALKOVERS BETWEEN MATS!
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30. A CORRECT BRIDGE!
 A bridge is with the heel under hips! Not
straight out in front!
 There should be basic use of a bridge done
right: push up into a bridge, walk and hop
in a bridge, back bend and up (two and one
leg) and tick tock.
 If a gymnast can not do these (not a lot just
one right!) the basic skill will be messed up!
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