Full Twisting Tsukahara Drills - Mas Watanabe

[@thegymnasticminute]

True the difference between a Kasamatsu and Tsukahara is the twisting direction. Men make the distinction, the womens code doesn't. This is Kasamatsu's vault.

[@GeoffTaucer]

@rockygaz It depends on which way you naturally twist. Whether you should be doing a tsuk 1/1 or a kaz is dependent on a couple of things which are established long before you start training skills at this level. If you don't twist the correct direction for a kaz, it will of course be nearly impossible for you to learn one. Based on what I've seen in training, though, gymnasts who are learning a kaz tend to pick it up much faster and more easily than gymnasts who are learning a tsuk 1/1

[@denn333]

I know that, rarely, a gymnast can learn a wrong-side entry--to "match" the twist direction in a Kas. Did Sean Golden do that? He does right roundoffs and left twists, so he did Tsuks (at least until 2006). But I remember that he later tried learning a Kas. I wonder if he changed entry side rather than twist side.

[@GeoffTaucer]

@turtlegym1 No, because she's performing a kazamatsu -- which is a far easier technique. Very important to understand the distinction between a tsuk 1/1 and a kazamatsu -- shame he didn't explain it here.

[@jjbulls4523]

wait was that the guy that had double double off high bar named after him?

[@turtlegym1]

yeah, shouldn't she be twisting the other way? She's a righty, so she's not really getting a full twist out of it. She's kind of blending the half on with the twist.

[@tomelliott73]

@turtlegym1