Hardest Skill to Learn

The next video in our "Off the Mat" series. Each girl talks about what gymnastics skill has been the hardest for them to learn.

[@csurvivor7]

When you jump to the bar and as do a glide swing when your fully extended you bring your legs up and pull with your arms to land in a front support.

[@kayessgee5]

its true! so many easy stuff for me took forever, like my split... i still dont have it!

[@BeccaBrown93]

yes definantly a kip! It took me a year and a half! I finally have my straight arm kip i made it this past November.

[@boredoutofmylife]

yeah the kip was my hardest skil too! i just now got it two days ago but it didnt take me a year it took me like four months to do it but i hardly ever practiced it i mostly work on my routines.

[@daniecetracey]

Thanks. I checked it and I understand what it is now.

[@KateeAmeliaa91]

Same! But I was the other way round.. I got my front and back giants and even was close to getting my straddle back before I got my kip! Think getting my kip was the most frustrating time as a gymnast lol!

[@gymnastlady]

i agree with Shawn. i have been working on my kip for a while and i still dont have it. i made it once, never made it again. but all i need to do is shift my hands.

[@katakanadian]

It took me almost two years (of recreational gymnastics) to learn a kip. But then I only needed a spot for ro, ff one time and then I was on my own and I learned all my beam dismounts (up to front and back pikes) with only a single spot.

[@missmouse35]

@girl92love a kip is a skill on the bars that is when a gymnast swings forward, puts her calves (lower leg) on the bar, and uses pushes herself up on the bar so that she is either in a cast position, or in a handstand. its basically the element that is the most vital fundamental for any gymnast to learn on the bars.

[@otorres2]

my back handspring has taken me like 8 months. i got it last week

[@espinaca79]

Oh! That kip was so tricky for me!

[@Sportsgirl125]

I remember my roundoff standing handspring took me about... 5 or so months but my roundoff back handspring is where I also had plenty of trouble =P. i wish I had gotten to those tougher levels lol

[@RomanCoronado]

Is there a glossary or something that lists the names of all the different skills of a gymnast and what they are (what they mean)? I'm getting more and more into the sport and I'd like to know more about the technical side of it.

[@MollyisMazin]

shawn is like me . it took me FOREVER to learn my kip and i still dont have it that consistant lol.

[@djflipflop23]

ahahah alicia- :anything on bars was hard for me to learn"

[@spershall]

I love ASac so much!

[@toomuchgoingon]

lol...kips are hard to get, but once you get it it's so simple...mine took like a couple months...

[@brinasuligoj119]

i thought i was weird cause I've been learning it now for a few months and I can't do it.

[@daniecetracey]

How I do on beam always changes. Sometimes I can nail it and other times I'm shaky.

[@kameroncoleman9293]

It took me like 2 years to get my full.

[@GeoffTaucer]

Aww... Shawn's so cute!

[@jbting]

it took me only a couple tries to learn a kip, but I can't seem to do anything else, haha! I'm guess I'm weird

[@ChoFrog09]

Dancing...and gymnastics (stress fracture)

[@PatoPandaPanda]

omg i am so with shawn kip is so hard to get!!!! it took me like 2 and a half years! :( ohh welll got it now! :D

[@KateeAmeliaa91]

Yee I agree kips were a nightmare to learn!

[@gymnasticsrat94]

i love it how shawn says her hardest skill is a kip! It was mine too shawn!

[@kittycatsrule86]

Bars is hard but I love itt

[@brinasuligoj119]

same here. :(

[@fizzywizzy2006]

It has only taken me three weeks and I now have my kip!!!!! well, only 2 out of 3 go right.... but still!!!!

[@natalienat518]

@nastialiukin100 Nastia Liukin - ONO on bars Ivana Hong - Hop-full on bars Jana Bieger - THACHEV Bridget Sloan - YURCHENKO double full on vault

[@gabsbac]

haha it took me for ever to learn how to kip which is funny cuz i went to chows when i was younger too but now im a dancer haha a lot of gymnast become dancers

[@BlossomxJuliette]

Haha, when i saw the name of this video, i say, o, thats the kip! And shawn said kip too. She's my fave american gymnast. xd Love from the netherlands!

[@missmouse35]

hahaha when shawn said kip i almost fell out of my chair laughing. not cuz i think a kip isnt hard (i cant do one) but just even thinking that SHAWN JOHNSON had to work for a year on her kip is just funny

[@brinasuligoj119]

omg. i'm like shawn. I'm learning a kip for a few months now. XD

[@chelsea2168]

shawn and nastia are my favorite and shawn always is smiling =]

[@ChoFrog09]

My kip took me four months. I was so proud, but then I broke (my back) and I CANNOT get it back : (

[@thewrestlingpalace9989]

my hardest is triple twisting double back

[@JBluver202]

i looked it up and found it out like a few min. after i asked,but thanks! Are you a gymnast because it sort of sounds like it!

[@GymLili95]

haha, i love alicia SO much, more than words can describe. and i met sam and bridget at woodward!!!!! they are super short, lmao. sam is so pretty here :D

[@klodya604]

Its true Shawn! Kip is really long to learn!!!!

[@MollyisMazin]

its a way to get onto the bars

[@cindyirene2001]

Kips! They've been my nemesis.

[@daniecetracey]

What did Chellsie say and what is it?

[@10MHMHMH]

Mine is my round off BHS or just BHS!!!

[@klodya604]

Ah ah! C'est vrai le kip c'est vraiment difficile, difficile de l'avoir et surtout difficile a enseigner, c'est très technique!

[@girl92love]

@missmouse35 what is a kip?

[@espinaca79]

LOL. You are right! hehehhe

[@brinasuligoj119]

omg. how?

[@CAAJDJ]

Im worst at Rings, and best at FX and Pommel!

[@sportygirl767]

lol everyone said bars, i agree with alica anything with bars

[@mariusnik]

alicia is scared to death of bars :)).I knew she doesn`t like bars bur now when i saw this i relly understand she actualy was so scared of them.

[@vansanddiamonds]

oh shawn!!!!:) it seems bars is the hardest.

[@TommyWiseauu]

beam is WAY harder than bars! my opinion

[@psychoforeverr]

haha shawn is cute! i wonder how old she was when she learned to kip... like 3 years old maybe? :D

[@flip4gym13]

what did ivana say?!?

[@jairourquina91]

What is a kip?

[@extra_ice_girl]

Doing a handstand on bars.

[@bridgetleary1058]

+Jairo Urquina The kip is the swing through they do on bars, so usually on a lower bar they'll swing to a pike, touch their toes to the bar and then swing up to a casting position.

[@kayessgee5]

yeah haha

[@JBluver202]

okay im gonna sound like a loser, but what's a kip?

[@natalienat518]

@natalienat518 Jana Bieger - THACHEV on bars

[@gabbyabbey510]

my double arabian!

[@turnfloh1984]

shawn is so hard to understand....

[@JJKicecream]

kips are annoying : D

[@4egymnast]

the hardest for me was a twisting layout...either i turned too early and felt like a cat or i did'nt turn at all...=/

[@4egymnast]

fell like a cat