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That skill is hard to keep pretty and land with a stick so that's why its not used. 1/1 giant to double tuck get the job done and much easier to stick.
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Yes, this is exactly.No one trains hip hechts these days. A hip hecht full is a dead-end skill, doubly so for elite, that's why hip hechts aren't taught. No one is going to teach hip hechts and hip hecht fulls when they can teach a double back that can potentially turn into various twisting variations or a double layout and all of it's twisting variations.
They seem to be!And Romanian bars - are getting better?
And Romanian bars - are getting better?
It's something I did in elementary school, with no intention to ever train bar beats, before having any real skills. Doesn't require having a vertical cast or giant to perform.I think you are underrating the difficulty of a hip hecht skill, especially when it entails learning a new skill family not often used elsewhere (namely the hip pop off the bar which made more sense when beating the bars was a skill everyone did constantly)
It's something I did in elementary school, with no intention to ever train bar beats, before having any real skills. Doesn't require having a vertical cast or giant to perform.
Let's look at a recent competition:
Most of these gymnasts could improve their score if they did the B hecht dismount. One of them fell on a Double Tuck, and injured themselves. That's the inherent risk in trying to learn and perform a double salto skill. It takes less time to learn a hip pop, less physical exertion to execute, and is less dangerous. It's stubbornness or ignorance if coaches don't want to consider teaching a safer dismount that is less deductible. Give people options so they can figure out what fits best.