Getting Serious

Goal setting. You’ve heard the term a million times yet maybe you’ve never actually set goals, or you’ve stopped setting goals because you’ve never achieved the goals you set out to complete. If you’ve never actually set goals it’s probably because you haven’t seen the value in it. And if you’ve never achieved the goals… Read More →

Want to upgrade your gymnastics routine with a higher value turn? Turns are an easy area, along with jumps, to upgrade your gymnastics skills!  We've broken down some common gymnastics turns and included the skill values for you here for both floor and beam (all of these values are for the Developmental Program unless otherwise… Read More →

Here is a list of floor gymnastics skills. It's not a comprehensive list. But we've tried to list the most commonly learned floor skills in the order that most gymnasts learn them. You can use this as a good starting point. Click Here to Download GymnasticsHQ's Skills List: Floor Acro Skills Forward Roll Backward Roll… Read More →

Gymnasts need to be flexibile and strong to succeed at gymnastics. Improving flexibility is one of the main ways that gymnasts can improve their gymnastics skills and it's a great way to try to improve at home. There is a lot more that goes into gymnastics flexibility than just stretching. Physical therapists and other experts… Read More →

A handstand pirouette is a gymnastics skill that is one of those big milestone skills in her progressions; after mastering a handstand pirouette on floors, a gymnast can move on to cast handstands and pirouettes on bars.  Handstand pirouettes can be completed on bars, beam and floor. We will be going over bars and beam… Read More →

  A back handspring is a  gymnastics skill that is a big milestone in a gymnast’s progression. We are going to go through the muscles you need to learn a back handspring, the best drills for a back handspring, and step by step how to do one. A back handspring is a hard skill to… Read More →