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Summary: Gain flexibility as a gymnast by stretching at an early age and increasing the amount in slow increments. Learn to be a flexible gymnast with tips from a professional gymnastics coach in this free video on gymnastics.
Yin Eloy Alvarez is a professional gymnastics coach who opened Universal Gymnastics located in Miami, Florida in 1995 with the intent of training internationally competitive gymnasts....read more
"In this clip we're going to be talking about being flexible in gymnastics. In gymnastics the flexibility is very important. We'll start little by little. For example, we teaching the stretching to kids. Stretching; there's so many different of stretching and then little by little, we are start to going a little low down; slow and slowly. See in both case; splits, pancake. We also using this. We push him a little bit to help him; they go down and do bridge. I'm recommending in gymnastic, not pushing, the flexibility, don't forcing, go on as slowly, slowly, practice every day."