Presenter
Toby Scott, MS, CSCS, PES
Sunday, August 9
9:30 – 10:30 am
Sun
9:30 – 10:30 am
Room 224
The Pyramid of Vault: How to Build Confident Front Handsprings and Yurchenkos
Calling all vault coaches! Do your athletes stutter step? Do their steps feel “off”? Do many of your athletes lean forward on the board and have a poor body shape in their vault? There is a simple way to help alleviate all of this, and it’s all in their approach.
The Pyramid of Vault is a great visual tool for coaches and athletes to use to simplify their vaults into pieces they can truly master. Many observed mistakes are caused by improper running mechanics and technique in their approach. Fix those and you’ll have vaulters extremely confident running full speed at the table!
This lecture will focus on breaking down each phase of the vault listed here, with a strong emphasis on their approach:
- Run & Hurdle
- Board Contact
- Preflight
- Support
- Postflight
- Landing
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Sun
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Room 224
Flipping Progressions: Back, Front, and Twisting
Calling all coaches and judges! This lecture will discuss progressions for saltos from the beginning stages all the way through level 10. We will discuss factors that you can incorporate into your training that help kids feel comfortable and competent with their awareness and body control.
Being a current competitive Trampoline and Tumbling athlete, as well as a WAG coach, I blend my experience in both disciplines and demonstrate build-ups that can be applied in your gym with various types of equipment.
Judges can benefit from this as well! Understanding the biomechanics of common skills and combinations on floor (and beam) can give you insight into how skills are built and the purpose behind skill choices.
We will discuss:
- Varying equipment set-ups
- Arm and leg positions into and out of flips
- Different surfaces to consider when training
- Common mistakes in progressions
- Connecting flips in a row
- Adding twists to front and back saltos