Pak Salto
How to teach the Pak salto on uneven bars
Angelo Ritorto
Pak Salto
How to teach the Pak salto on uneven bars
description
The Pak salto has become a key element in teaching high performance gymnastics on uneven bars.
Whether you're a participant or a spectator, this movement elicits emotion. It allows for smooth bar changes and multiple possibilities for combinations that often mean an increased starting value.
Its most unique point: this inversion with a momentary loss of visual contact. You need to find the right amount of rotation and amplitude to be sure of an effective catch of the low bar.
In this training we present to you the technique for the movement so that you can familiarize yourself with each of its key phases.
Then we introduce you to the various teaching strategies plus all of the drills needed to teach it to your gymnasts.
We hope you enjoy the training.
content
- Intro: links with the training course on a shoot-over (bail) (part 2)
- Analysis of the phase between the back horizontal and the vertical of the high bar
- Analysis of the piking phase – moment of initiation, angles of flexion and variations according to gymnasts' morphology
- Analysis of the release phase from the high bar – opening action, movement of the head and influences on the movement
- Analysis of the flight phase – moment of initiation, flight trajectory and actions specific to the Pak salto
- Analysis of the landing phase
- Stage 1: Exercises to get to know the specific actions unique to the Pak salto
- Stage 2: Learning the piking action in the swing
- Stage 3: Learning the opening action
- Zoom in on the 2 teaching strategies that can be used
- Stage 4: Skill progression from a swing created from hanging
- Stage 5: Skill progression from a handstand start
