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5 Flexibility Trainer Strap Exercises
Gymnastics Direct’s Flexibility Trainer Strap is the perfect training aid for at home. It allows gymnasts, dancers, or cheerleaders to condition, maintain strength and improve their flexibility, balance and control! Take your training to the next level and improve your strength and flexibility with these 5 easy exercises. 1. Backbend After installing the trainer strap (find…
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Club Focus: Roleystone Gymnastics Club
Introducing our latest club to sit in the hot seat for club focus, Roleystone Gymnastics Club! How did your club start? RGC, have been operating for over 35 years. We started as a small club in our local Roleystone Hall packing away all the equipment every day and setting up again the next day.…
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Cheer Conditioning at Home
To help maintain strength and flexibility, it’s important for young cheerleaders to condition at home. The Gym Spot has put together some drills that will help with their conditioning training whilst the lockdown is in full effect, using minimal to no equipment. Warm Ups Naturally, before you participate in any type of physical activity, it…
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Kip Variations
A kip is a technique usually performed on the women’s uneven bars and is an integral part of gymnastics. Gymnasts usually employ a kip to mount the bars smoothly and a connecting element in bar routines. It allows the gymnast to swing below the bar to arrive in a front support on the bar,…
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The Benefits of Yoga with Emma Chapman
This week, we introduce Emma Chapman, yoga teacher at Fitness Playground in Marrickville. Emma has been teaching and practising yoga for the last 14 years, specialising in Iyengar yoga and Hatha yoga and she says it’s important to always branch out and never stick to one particular style when doing any movement in life.…
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Flow in Sport with Dr Sue Jackson
Flow is a state of total focus on the task at hand. When we are in flow, we usually perform at our best because we are concentrating only on our performance. Flow occurs when we are in a situation of high challenge, and in a situation where our skills match the challenge. Sport Psychologist Dr…
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5 Beam Drills You Can Do At Home
Want to master those beam skills but have no idea where to begin? The Gym Spot has put together some absolute must-do drills to help you master those skills and ace your beam routines in no time! First things first, if you are not confident on a beam, make sure you start your drills…
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How to do a Backward Roll with Neophyte Performance
A backward roll is a staple movement in gymnastics and a basic skill to master. It might seem simple in theory, but it does take a bit of practice to get it right at first. The benefits of a backward roll are that it can be the starting point for more difficult moves in…
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How to Use An Incline Mat to Ace Those Acro Drills
Incline gymnastics mats or wedges are very versatile in regards to gymnastics, acro, cheerleading, dance and tumbling. They come in a small and a large size, and are a training aid that can be used for a variety of different manoeuvres and acing techniques when it comes to training regularly. The Gym Spot and…
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The Trampoline Team for Tokyo 2020 Olympics
The Gym Spot would like to give a round of applause for our Australian Trampoline Team who are set to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this coming Friday and Saturday. Our Gymnastics Trampolining Team consists of the athletes Dominic Clarke and Jessica Pickering. Dominic Clarke Dominic, 24 years of age was born in Plymouth,…