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Xcel Silver Gymnastics

Everything you need to coach Xcel Silver — the USAG requirements, every skill broken down, the drills that build them, and a full season lesson plan.

Xcel Silver requirements

Vault
Handspring over mat stack · Runway hesitation: 0.10 · Failing to stick: 0.10-0.30 · Body position errors: up to 0.30 · Lack of dynamics: up to 0.30
Bars
Minimum of 5 "A" value skills · A cast -- minimum 45° below horizontal · A circling skill (not the mount or dismount) · A dismount · Pullover · Cast (min 45° below horizontal) · 2 A-value skills · A-value dismount · A kip is an A-value skill and excellent Silver goal, but a pullover mount is also acceptable.
Beam
Minimum of 1/2 turn on one foot · One jump or leap · One non-flight acro skill · A dismount
Floor
Two directly connected acro skills -- one must have flight · Two directly connected acro skills (no flight required) OR 1 acro with flight · A dance passage with two skills -- one must be a 90° leap · Minimum of 360° turn on one foot

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Vault skills

Bars skills

Beam skills

Floor skills

Drills for Xcel Silver

Lesson plan

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