The thing about gymnastics is the time and energy it takes to perfect moves and the younger the better for starting to work on the elements the girls need for higher tariff moves in their routines.  Here Danni puts one of her former 7 year olds through her paces learning the "Giant" move for asymmetric bars safely strapped on to the metal bar.  She protects her hands using gardening gloves of all things and wrist straps.  Later she will transfer the move to the higher metal bar and then on to the usual carbon fibre bar without the wrist strapping.

Timing and safety are very important when performing the Yurchenko vault and here we see one of the older girls going through one of the final preparation stages of the vault.

The next stage would be completing a landing into a foam pit and then on to floor matting.  The coach stands in to ensure a safe take off to the vault table and the safety mats piled to break her fall to her back with the somersault almost completed.

On the home page you will see one of our senior gymnasts Christina Hewitt in action practising her full twisting Tsukahara vault.