
Learn bar basics, circle skills, and tap swings for bars, with a focus on the roots skill, its strength, and conditioning.
Develop core bar skills through the glide tip, block vs pull drills, and glide-kip progressions, then build shape control, conditioning, and handstand-to-kip cast techniques.
Develop strict shape and core strength for bars circle skills through band-resisted shapes, handstand transitions, and controlled pivots from toe handstand to stalder.
Master circle skills on the bars by learning shapes, wrist technique, and hip alignment, progressing from basic circles with straps to toe handstands and the inside stalder.
Master tap swings and giants on the bars by driving your heels back, opening the hips, and casting to a stable flyaway with eye focus on the low bar.
Apply consistent basics conditioning and repetition from today’s bar clinic to build solid fundamentals, so you can execute big skills with confidence.
Learn uneven parallel bars skills and drills from one of the world's top coaches. This comprehensive video provides personal lessons from Coach Mary Lee Tracy, owner of Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy in Fairfield, Ohio. Among the topics covered are: Bar Basics, Conditioning Shapes, Circle Skills, Tap Swings and more. This video is a must-have resource for coaches or gymnasts at any level of competition.
About the Coach: Mary Lee Tracy started Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy in 1988 and has since coached 27 National team members and several Olympians. Tracy was named USA Gymnastics’ Women’s Coach of the Year three consecutive years (1994-96) and has been the Region 5 Coach of the Year on numerous occasions. Mary Lee Tracy was a 2008 inductee into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame.