First Parallel Bars routine

Hey all,

 

I haven't posted on this forum in a while, though some might remember my inital posts around 2-2.5 years ago. For some context, I started gymnastics at 20 years old, around 2.5 years ago, and I'm around 6' 2". I've made slow but steady progress over the 2.5 years (certainly not as fast as I'd hoped, but a lot of that is due to my own failure to stick with the program / fear getting in the way). I've definitely used some Foundation programming throughout that time and that's helped a lot, but nowadays I tend to stick closer to the conditioning programs that our coach has provided for us, since they're more targeted towards specific events (though I think foundation might be better for me if this were not meet season). I've mostly concentrated on PB and FX, though I have dreams of having legitimate routines on all the events someday

 

With that prelude, I have finally gotten a parallel bars routine together that somewhat resembles a legitimate routine (of course with very basic skills), so I wanted to share. It's not as clean as I'd like, but it's a start. The main skill I fall on at the moment is the swing to handstand after the front uprise; hopefully I can compete this routine in our home meet tomorrow without falls (fingers crossed).

 

 

 

For comparison's sake, here's my PB routine at the end of my first year of gymnastics:

 

Nice work. I enjoyed the construction of the routine; good combination of basic element groups.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

Nice, pretty clean too. I have a similar background to you (I was just reading uour other post about learning appartus skills). I'm 24, learned basic tumbling when I was 17 from a handful of private lessons at a dance studio, and was then recruited to their acrosport team (partner lifts, dance elements, and basic tumbling like front tucks, back tucks, r/o bhs). I just rejoined gymnastics club at ohio state this year (was in it freshman/little sophomore year but nothing consistent to see real improvement and didn't compete). I'm learning the basics still and improving every week. To do what you just did on p bars would be a dream come true, truly inspiring man. You mentioned on your previous post that I was reading that you practice 6 days/wk for 2.5hrs or so with a coach that comes in 3x/wk? That's incredible and extremely fortunate for a club team. Where do you practice at? We have a gym off campus where we get about 1.5hrs, 4x a week with no coach. Better than nothing, but still. I'll be at Nationals next week, hope to see you there.