- Mar 8, 2012
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So my main problem is that my tumbling on the floor vs. the trampoline is completely different... Which poses problems when I have to learn doubles on the trampoline first...
I have the worst problem setting on the trampoline! No matter how hard I try to set, I just get sling-shotted backwards! I have been told to make my roundoff/backhandspring longer with hope that my legs will land further away from my body and allow me to set more successfully but this has a 1/5 chance of happening...
I do take privates with my coach, and this is mainly where we work on the trampoline. At practice, we only work skills that we already have, so my private is the only time I have to work on doubles. It's getting really frustrating... I hear that boys should be able to learn all this stuff really easily and be good at it, but I'm having the most (un-needed) trouble! I thought it might be helpful to know that I am a guy lol...
I have a really good set in my tuck and layout on floor, and even on the trampoline lately! But whenever I start fulling, it's like my body changes everything! My coach tells me I try to twist right off the floor sometimes, I don't wait and set.. This is hard to explain but I'll try: I don't pull up and twist, like I let my shoulders fall back when I start to twist... ? My coach puts it into terms that if I'm twisting, I need to set "up a pole" and twist around "the pole" instead of allowing my left shoulder fall backwards when I start twisting left. Main point: when I start twisting, I'm no longer lifting up/setting, I suppose...
I could see all of these being factors of play as to why doubles are so hard for me... It's been a 2 year process now that I've been working on them.. My full has gotten so much better; for some time I thought maybe I shouldn't be working doubles when my full was struggling, BUT my full has gotten worlds better over the season... Anybody have any tips, drills, ideas? I trust my coaches with everything they say (I wouldn't be where I was today in tumbling without them), I just think maybe somebody else could put things into other terms that I might understand a little better!? Thanks in advance!
I have the worst problem setting on the trampoline! No matter how hard I try to set, I just get sling-shotted backwards! I have been told to make my roundoff/backhandspring longer with hope that my legs will land further away from my body and allow me to set more successfully but this has a 1/5 chance of happening...
I do take privates with my coach, and this is mainly where we work on the trampoline. At practice, we only work skills that we already have, so my private is the only time I have to work on doubles. It's getting really frustrating... I hear that boys should be able to learn all this stuff really easily and be good at it, but I'm having the most (un-needed) trouble! I thought it might be helpful to know that I am a guy lol...
I have a really good set in my tuck and layout on floor, and even on the trampoline lately! But whenever I start fulling, it's like my body changes everything! My coach tells me I try to twist right off the floor sometimes, I don't wait and set.. This is hard to explain but I'll try: I don't pull up and twist, like I let my shoulders fall back when I start to twist... ? My coach puts it into terms that if I'm twisting, I need to set "up a pole" and twist around "the pole" instead of allowing my left shoulder fall backwards when I start twisting left. Main point: when I start twisting, I'm no longer lifting up/setting, I suppose...
I could see all of these being factors of play as to why doubles are so hard for me... It's been a 2 year process now that I've been working on them.. My full has gotten so much better; for some time I thought maybe I shouldn't be working doubles when my full was struggling, BUT my full has gotten worlds better over the season... Anybody have any tips, drills, ideas? I trust my coaches with everything they say (I wouldn't be where I was today in tumbling without them), I just think maybe somebody else could put things into other terms that I might understand a little better!? Thanks in advance!