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Porcupine Bar Pad
Porcupine Bar Pad
SKU: Item: BP-20QUILLRB
The Porcupine Bar Pad takes the guesswork out of big swinging bar skills! This soft bristled pad gives feedback to gymnasts to help them feel confident while maximizing their stretch, swing, and tap to learn spatial awareness and proper technique.
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Any activities involving motion and or height create a possibility of injury, paralysis or even death. All our equipment is intended to be used by properly trained person or under the supervision of qualified trainer. Know your limitations before using any of our equipment to reduce the risk of serious injury. Before each used of the equipment verify each component for damage, tear or loose fittings. Do not use the equipment if you have a concern about the stability or the safety. Only use this equipment for what it was intended for. No mats can eliminate completely the risk of serious injury, paralysis or death.
Description
When working uneven bar swinging skills, do you have gymnasts who are nervous about hitting the low bar? Do they pull in too early causing them to break from proper form and technique? The Porcupine Pad is a simple, yet incredibly effective training tool that will help an athlete begin to feel exactly how far away their feet are from the low bar. The Porcupine Bar Pad creatively uses soft, flexible bristles and wrap-around padding to offer feedback and assurance. The Porcupine Bar Pad is very useful in helping to build confidence early in skill development.
Innovated by Coach Brett Wargo, Team Coach from Ascend Gymnastics (winner of the 2022 JO National Program of the Year award). The Porcupine Bar Pad has two rows of soft bristles, similar to a broom, in two different lengths, 6-in and 3-in. Velcro the pad around any standard 1.5-in rail and adjust the bristles so they are pointing in the direction of the high bar.
Use the longest length bristles (6-in long), for athletes who are just starting out, or for athletes who are the appropriate height for that length. Once the athlete is more comfortable, or more advanced in their technique, spin the pad to the shorter length bristle (3-in long) for an additional challenge.
- Ideal for beginners to practice basic tap swings with confidence.
- Front and back giant technique will improve with the athlete maximizing stretch between the bars.
- At 20-in wide, the width of the pad is long enough for both of the athlete’s feet to touch the bristles as they swing through.
- Long bristles are 6-in long
- Short bristles are 3-in long
- Quickly attach or remove the pad from the bar with Velcro flap closure.
- Bristle lengths are 6-in and 3-in from the bar pad.
- Bar pad is 20-in long, vinyl covered
- Velcro closure