Does anyone have any tips on how to teach someone how to Pole vault, specifically bending the pole.?
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first of all, get the fear out of their way
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Damn. thepaladin38 recommended the stuff that I was going to. \n\nThere are a FEW people out there who will never be able to do the splits, but not many. Try this: put one leg up on a chair to your side so that it's about 90 degrees to your body. Then do it with the other leg. If both legs can go to 90 deg, then you have the potential flexibility in each leg to be able to do the splits. There's noting connecting each leg to the other, so there's nothing preventing you from doing that with both legs at the same time but proper stretching  and strength training to train your body to do it.
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Tip: Standing Jump and Reach\nThe standing jump and reach:1-Start with feet shoulder width apart, body straight up and down.2-Squat slightly, explode upward, reaching toward a target or object.3-Take no steps before jumping again.4-Repeat for 1:00, rest 1:15, go again. Do 3 sets.\n \nTip: 90-Second Step Jump\n1-Stand at the side of the step, feet shoulder width apart. 2-Jump onto the step, quickly jump off step on other side.3-Repeat the process in the opposite direction.4-Begin at 30 seconds, and work your way up to 60 and finally 90 as you feel more comfortable. 5-Rest 15 seconds longer than you jumped, doing sets of 3.\nTip: Two-Foot Ankle Hops\nHere´s how to do the two-foot ankle hop:1-Stand with your feet shoulder width apart, your body straight up and down.2-Using only your ankles, hop continuously in place.3-Extend your ankles to the maximum range with each jump.4-Continue for one minute, rest 1:15, then go again. Do 3 sets.\nTip: Bleacher Sprints\nA good way to improve quickness and jumping ability is to utilize bleachers for running. This can be done on a small set or a large set. Beginners - may want to start on a small set and run up and done 3 times. Intermediate - needs to try to complete a large set of about 15-20 bleachers 3 times. Experienced - players need to complete a large set of bleachers of about 20+ bleachers, skipping every other step. Every level should take 30 second break and complete at least 3 sets.\nStart with a warm up, including a light jog, stretching, big arm swings and side-to-side movements for 10-15 minutes, and then move on to the plyometric routine.
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This is a more difficult move and I find that when I twist if I tuck my head to my shoulder (whichever way Im turning) and dont move it, it works really good. This keeps ur head from sticking out which can cause a sloppy full. Also u might work on doing full twists on a trampoline to help get the motions down. And pretty much if u know how to twist and u can do a high layout u will be able to throw ur full twist. Good luck with it!
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Some of these people have no idea what they are talking about. You can make JV, just not Varsity!\n\nYou want some tips on doing a back handspring? I'm here all day so I'll tell ya...\n\nPractice on an incline mat. When you feel you are falling, its time to jump and jump hard! Keep your arms straight and strong and push off. Keep arms by your head at all times! \nArch a Little, but if you over arch it is a BIG mess.\nBend your knees slightly, arch a little bit, and push you shoulders open as much as you can. Then using your stomach, back, and arm muscles, snap your body back to a hollow position, pushing off your hands, and land on your feet on the floor in front of the board/mat. \nPut it all together you should be able to do a back handspring.\n\nGood luck and have fun in gymnastics!
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dont kick it, push it up. move your foot up quickly then pull it back down and around, you'll get the hang of it. my biggest problem while learning it was catching soft enough on the way down, make sure you go pretty straight upwards.
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You need help on how to do back-bend kick overs? OK. I know that these take along time, I took longer on these than I did things like back handsprings and back tucks! Back bend kick overs are one of the most important things to know in gymnastics.\nMake sure you have a"spotter" to arch your back correctly and so you don't fall.\nGet in your back bend.\nStart to rock a little bit, that warms up your muscles. \nPush off the ground with the foot you AREN'T kicking over, have your spotter support the leg and help push it over.\nYou need strong arms and back to be able to do a back bend kick over, not so much with the legs. \nGood luck.
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Work hard and practice!! Work ethic is worth a lot in gymnastics. And the most important thing, never give up!!!
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unfortunately, I think this is going to amount to practice, practice, practice.  Obviously, the majority of her strength and coordination is going to lie on that left side, so basically the only thing she CAN DO is watch the others, take their advice, do it the other way, and get better at it.
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um boneless? i dont really do them much but i can think of a few things you could do. if you wanna finger flip grab the board at the nose when you pop your bonelesss or what ever. make sure you grab it with your 4 fingers on the grip and the thumb on the underside. feels weird but pretty easy to make flip. so just flip it and jump on. no complys are pretty cool but kinda hard. you dont actually grab the board but you can take a foot off to pop your board. there are many ways to do like old school kickflips. one that i find pretty easy is with your hand. ok your ridin your board and you put your front foot on the ground and pop your board w/ your back foot. when the board pops up smack the side with your hand and it should flip. cavemans? um go caveman a rail. thats fun kinda scary but yea. um you can like caveman fingerflip manual. i can do them but my friend can. just like run up to the manual pad and do a fingerflip on to it but you gotta land in a manual and thats where i always fall. they are kinda cool. ha good luck doin anything mullen can. that dudes nuts. 720 double flips. like 2 360 flips in one. crazyness. double flip rewinds. you can prolly learn how to do some casper flips and stuff but i think  that stuffs gay. unless you do it moving. like a casper slide on a box. that would be cool. i dont kno anyone who can do those besides mullen. maybe daewon song.
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A little bird tells me that Mr Richard B. Cheney, our Vice-Pres, is currently offering an exclusive course on this subject - which includes hands-on practice sessions as well. \nYou could contact him for further details ?!
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lol nope but nice way of thinking!\n\n"As a practical means of passing over such natural obstacles as canals and brooks, pole vaulting has been used in many parts of the world, such as in the marshy provinces of Friesland in The Netherlands along the North Sea, and the great level of the fens of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk. The artificial draining of these marshes brought into existence a network of open drains or canals intersecting each other at right angles. In order to cross these without getting wet, and at the same time avoid tedious roundabout journeys over the bridges, a stack of jumping poles was kept at every house, which were commonly used for vaulting over the canals. In Friesland, where it is called fierljeppen, it has continued to be a folkloristic activity with annual competitions. Broad-jumping with the pole, though the original form of the sport, has never found its way into organized athletics, the high jump being the only form recognized.\n\nModern competitions probably began around 1850 in Germany, when it was added to the gymnastic exercises of the Turner by Johann C. F. GutsMuths and Frederich L. Jahn. The modern pole vaulting technique was developed in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. In Great Britain it was first commonly practised at the Caledonian games. Initially, vaulting poles were made from stiff materials such as bamboo or aluminium, until the introduction of flexible vaulting poles made from composites such as fiberglass or carbon fiber. Physical attributes such as speed and agility are essential to pole vaulting effectively, but technical skill is an equally if not more important element. The object is to clear a bar or stick supported upon two uprights without knocking it down. While women's pole vault records were kept for many years, the event only started to gain popularity in the 1990s."
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If your school has a gymnastics team, you should be on it. You  will build upper body strength and learn body control.\n\nDevelop a consistant approach run. You should be able to hit your marks every time. Learn how to adjust it for head and tail winds.\n\nIf you get a chance, spend a week at one of the pole vault camps.
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yahh i am u basiccly have to no simple gymnastics like back hand spings and stuff like that tip(don't be scared if u get thrown into the air!!)
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This looks like a great place to check out how to do tricks. I clicked on a few of the links, and step by step pictures come up along with the how to guides..\n\ngood luck.\n\nhttp://skateboard.about.com/od/tricktips/\n\nclean link.
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The best way is to sign up for a tumbling class.  When you work with someone who has experience and training to teach backflips, it's a much better experience than trying to teach yourself and you'll end up with a nicer backflip.  \n\nComing in a distant second is to get a buddy to help you learn a backflip.  It's more dangerous this way but a lot of things in life are.  \n\nThis website has some tips on learning gymnastics skills.
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good question but i will put this question on my watchlist so i can see the tricks too. I want to learn how to do a split too.