Tweet A couple of months ago some bloggers addressed the issue of widening the beam over at The Gymnastics Examiner. Many shared their opinions on whether this would be a good thing, bad thing or safe thing. I  came across Coach Vladimir Zaglada’s opinion this week while reading his book “One Coaches Journey From East to West” and thought that it was very fitting and would share with you, the readers of Full Twist.

Coach Zaglada asks the reader to think about what would have to happen if a double salto …

Tweet I posted in January about the decision my gymnastics club took to purchase a handstand rebounder. I asked for other coaches and gymnasts opinions and experiences on buying / using rebounders. I have to say I am a fan of the rebounder, I was before and am more so now.

Although it has only made improvements to say, five out of seven gymnasts in my group so far, these are great improvements. We purchased the GymNova single rebounder and we’ve had no problems with it structurally. We don’t have a …

Tweet For a few months I’ve been debating whether to buy a Handstand Rebounder for the club. I’ve been looking at the “Single Rebounder” from GymNova. Whilst my club has improved a lot on A Bars over the past year, our casts still require a lot of work and I’m tired of seeing sloppy, messy cast to handstands. It’s taking a lot of the girls a long time to get all the way up to handstand in giants. I’ve talked about the rebounder with a few other coaches in local …

Tweet Yesterday I was reading Al Fongs latest blog entry “My Coaching peers remember when…“. It made me think about all of the things that I have told my gymnasts about how I trained and they laughed at me! So I made a list like Al Fong. You don’t realise how good you’ve got it girls!

When I first started gym my club had only wooden benches to work on, after three years in the club, we bought a high balance beam. So yes, we used to enter competitions having never …

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