All-Star Flyer Flexiblity

[Angelica]

This has become a huge problem at my small gym on 1 of our teams. We have stressed to the flyers SO much how it's important to stretch. And were still not seeing any progress. 4 out of our 6 youth flyers drop their scorp to get to their scale. Idk if we need to have a flyer stretching class once or week or what?! Anyone else ever ran into this problem? plus the flyers are having trouble understanding the haft that theirs at COUNT for your scorp, scale and heel stretch. Right now we have 6 soloist flying in their stunts and no one looks alike. They just don't get it ! Never had this problem...were so confused on what to do

 

[libertycoach]

We make our backspots be responsible for stretching the flyers at practice. The backs usually show no mercy and it will encourage the flyers to stretch on their own so they have that extra flexibility.

As far as counts go- you can have the flyers line up across the front without their bases and they have to perform the counts to the stunt sequence on the floor before they are allowed to attempt it in the air.

 

[TwistersPride]

We are a small gym and had problems with flexibility. We have a senior athlete who has worked super hard to increase her flexibility. We now have her work with the flyers from all the teams for 30 min a week. It has made a big difference!

 

[cupieqt]

Flexibility was our focus this year so we required all flyers to arrive 30 minutes early to complete a stretching routine over the summer. Once school started we worked it into our warm up. We've seen a dramatic increase in all of our flyers flexibility. They don't just stretch though, they practice balance and "wrapping" skills too (we call going from skill to skill without letting go wrapping). And like @libertycoach we also make our flyers stand in line or in front of their group and perform the skill in sync on the floor before they can go up with it.

 

[pharaoh]

There is nothing worst then a scale that looks like a number four or a flier that looks ready to die from trying to pull a scorpion. So yeah... please have them STRECH like no nobody's business.

 

[kickdblcj]

Just hold them down and break their backs. Worked pretty good for me.

 

[Angelica]

nothings worse then a flyer who has a scorp that looks like a triangle....

& THANK YOU all for the ideas