Full Twisting Tsukahara Drills - Mas Watanabe

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Uploaded by on May 6, 2010

Figuring out how to twist the Tsukahara Vault can be really challenging. Here Mas Watanabe explains and shows how he teaches this advanced competitive vault.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • @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

  • @GeoffTaucer Kaz is not necessarily easier. My coach tried to teach me a Kaz, but in the end it went back to a tsuk with twisting because I found it easier that way.

  • @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.

  • @RickMcCharles

    What's funny is that Mas makes that distinction on his GymSmarts video on Tsuks/Kasamatsu".

  • 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.

  • Should explain that this is not a Tsuk 1/1, but rather what Men call "Kasamatsu".

    1/4-on, 3/4-off

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