Stomach Drop
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Coach Doug explains the correct body position when doing a stomach drop
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If you have time, this video is worth the watch and it's pretty entertaining. If you don't have time to watch the whole thing, start at 1:23. He demonstrates a good beginning station where you start in a doggy drop position and bounce on the trampoline, then kick your legs out and land on your belly. This station helps to take away the fear of landing on your belly since you start close to the trampoline.
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This is what you don't want your kids to do. Demonstrate it to your students and explain why it is incorrect
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This should be one of your stations to correctly teach your students a stomach drop. Use the 4 inch mat so they feel more comfortable. Make sure that they are barely jumping off the trampoline and kicking their feet back to land right where they started.
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This can be another station you use to teach stomach drops. Before they do this station, they should know how to land on their stomach correctly to avoid getting hurt. Spot them on this first before letting them do it by themselves. When they do this back flip to their belly, it is super important for them to look for the blue mat, so they know where they are in the air. This helps a lot.
Once they can do this by themselves and correctly, have them try to back flip to their belly, then land on their feet. Once they can do that, have them try to back flip, land on their belly, then pull through to seat drop. After seat drop, they can try landing on their back. After landing on their back, have them try landing on their back and pulling over to their feet. |
Back Drops
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When trying back drops with your kids for the first time, see if they can do "The Cockroach." This teaches them that the direction in which their legs are pointing when they land on their back is important. If their legs are to far over their faces then they will tip toward their head. If their legs are too far out, they will start to tip up. You want their legs going up toward the ceiling when doing this drill. Here is Doug doing an example of what your kids will want to do. Don't let them do this. They should stand facing the blue mat and try and jump to their back, landing on the blue four inch mat. Basically they need to try and make the back drop move forward. |
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Once your kids are comfortable doing the back drop on the 4 inch mat, try drawing a circle in the middle of the trampoline and have them do their back drop, staying in the circle the whole time.
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Once they can safely drop to their backs, let them practice dropping to their back, then doing the cockroach bounce at least 5 times, then pop back to their feet.
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This video shows how you can start progressing your kids through the skills. Once they can successfully land on their back and pop to their feet, you can change it to a bunch of different skills.
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Once they can backdrop, doggy drop, roll let them try to pop up off their backs and mimic doing a roll. You will see that in the first part of the video. After they can do that, then have them try and dolphin roll out of the back drop.
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Once they can dolphin roll from their back, they can try to pull all the way through to a front tuck. The video to the left shows me failing at this.
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3/4 Front
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This one video explains how to start your kids off with 3/4 fronts and how to progress them through to doing them on the trampoline correctly and safely. 3/4 fronts will be used to do ball outs, which is a 3/4 front to a front tuck.
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Ball Out
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A ball out is really a 3/4 front to a front tuck. We have already been practicing the progression for this skill through doing back drops through to doggy drops and dolphin rolls. The only difference is now they do the 3/4 front drop and try doing a doggy drop out and so forth. If you're unsure, watch the videos above under back drop. I have also included a video of a kid progressing through a back drop. He does a good job explaining how to do the skill.
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