Double Full Tips?

[Regan Turner]

I have been working on getting my double for a little while now, and I always get stuck around 1 and 3/4 twists, instead of 2 complete twists. I wanted to know if anybody has any really good tips, a good resource to use, or drills that I could do to help me complete the twists. Thank you!

 

[nicolee]

Just a couple of things that help me:

• work on getting your round-off really long and low to the ground
• keep your body super straight during the round-off (core exercises helped me with this)
• when blocking, push your arms hard as if you were trying to push the mat away
• stretch through the shoulders hard, otherwise you won't get enough height
• if you twist to the right, bring your right arm in first, really tight and strong to give yourself momentum, then pull your left arm in quickly to pick up speed
• keep your feet tightly together (this helped me to not leave my feet underrotated)