
Handstand: A handstand is basically a straight body position upside-down. As a gymnast, you need to be able to stand with your bottom squeezed, hips tucked under, core tight, and with your arms straight and by your ears. This is the most important position to master. Straight Stand: The straight stand, or straight body position is EVERYWHERE in gymnastics. After learning split jumps, gymnasts learn split leaps, and then switch leaps. Starting with level 1, a split jump is required in each of the compulsory levels on either floor or beam. Split: The split shape shows up constantly on floor and beam in gymnastics! A split on floor is a key part of flexibility as a gymnast. There are many different flipping vaults that use the pike shape. On bars, you can see the pike shape in many different skills, including a kip. And as you advance on floor, you will learn a back pike and front pike, after you learn the tuck versions. You will learn pike jumps on both floor and beam.

Pike: You see the pike shape on each of the events, just like the tuck. You can also see the straddle shape in different skills, like a straddle press handstand, or straddling up to a cast handstand on bars.
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As you advance in gymnastics you will learn straddle jump 1/2 turns, and full turns, as well as straddle jumps on beam. Straddle: A straddle jump is a jump that you will do as a beginner gymnast, it’s in the level 4 routine, all the way to an advanced gymnast. On vault, as an advanced gymnast you will learn tuck tsuks and other flipping vaults. On bars, you will use the tuck shape as you advance to do flyaways, and then twisting or double tuck flyaways. As you advance, you will learn a front tuck. As beginner gymnasts you do tuck jumps, and then tuck jumps with a turn on both floor and beam. Tuck: You see the tuck shape on each of the events. We’re going to go over each of the shapes, why it’s important, and some skills which require you to do it. Learning and then mastering the shapes is one great way to practice and improve your gymnastics at home.

Tuck jumps can be done without a countermovement, with a full squat countermovement, from the bottom of a squat and/or without arm swing.There are some basic shapes and body positions that get repeated over and over in gymnastics skills. This prevents their fatiguing the lifter for the performance of more sport-specific speed-dependent lifts, and also helps improve explosiveness by forcing the body to recruit more and higher-threshold motor units when partially fatigued. In weightlifting, they are usually done at the end of a training session. Tuck jumps should generally be done for 3-5 reps per set, with 3-10 sets.

They can also be used to improve hip flexor strength and activation for the movement under the bar in the snatch and clean. The tuck jump can be when an athlete is nervous about jumping onto a box to help prepare them. These can be done strictly by maintaining a rigidly braced trunk with the back extended as it would be in a squat, or by allowing the back to round naturally as the knees rise for maximal foot elevation. Once off the floor, lift the knees as high as possible before bringing them back down to absorb the landing. Stand with feet around hip width, brace the trunk, bend at the knees and hips to load the legs and swing the arms back, then swing the arms up as you push as aggressively as possible against the ground. The tuck jump is simply a vertical jump with added hip flexion while in the air.
