Video 1: Overview
Video 2: Technical analysis of the twist
- Introduction
- Actions for initiating the long-axis turn
- Takeoff phase, creation of the first half turn
- The concept of transfer in learning
- Second phase of the salto, execution of the second half twist
- Different methods for initiating the twist
- Learning technique: connection to the part method
- Determining a gymnast’s dominant turning direction
- How to recognize a twist to the right or the left
- Why gymnasts sometimes invert their turning direction
Video 3: Prerequisites
- Pirouette on the floor and variation
- Tumbling on the mat
- Key learning setups to be familiar with
- Basic exercises focusing on the twist on the big trampoline
Video 4: Pedagogical analysis—drills for the salto backward stretched with a full twist on floor
- Front twist
- Salto forward piked half turn
- Salto forward stretched half turn
- Front kaboom crash dive and half turn
- Back handspring half turn in the pit
- Teaching progression with blocks, minitrampoline, and high surface
- Teaching progression with blocks and minitrampoline, upright landing
- Back drop half turn handstand
- Back kaboom half turn
- Drills on leaving the bed
- Twists on the Fast Track
- Round-off Arabian dive with springboard
- Progression on the tumbling track
Video 5: Various spotting techniques for the twist
- Back handspring to handstand
- Learning the first half turn
- Backward crash dive half turn
- Arabian dive
- Back twist
Video 6: Physical preparation
- Introduction
- Understanding muscular contraction with elastics
- Specific exercises on the takeoff and initiation phase
- Isometric exercises
Video 7: LIVE performance: Observation of technical errors and suggested solutions
- Introduction
- Straight jump
- Pirouettes on the trampoline
- Seat drop
- Seat drop with half turn
- Seat drop with rebound
- Seat drop half turn to hands and knees
- Roller
- Rebounds on the back
- Snap-downs with turns
- Salto forward tucked
- Forward progression on the Fast Track
- Salto forward piked and jump half turn
- Salto forward piked half turn
- Salto forward stretched half turn (1)
- Salto forward stretched half turn (2)
- Back handspring with half turn
- Arabian dive
- Back crash dive twist
- Back twist with minitrampoline
- Drills on leaving the trampoline bed
- Round-off whipback on the Fast Track
- Round-off with springboard
- Working on the tumbling track