The Romanian Beam Complex
The answer was what has come to be called the Romanian Beam Complex, which coincidentally is a training system to teach gymnasts to balance on the beam and which Romanian gymnasts would perform daily before their beam workout for 30 –45 minutes every day.

Stay Centered
The Romanians found that training their gymnasts to learn to move their arms and legs while centering the rest of their body over the beam at all times reduced and eventually eliminated falls on beam.

Stay Square and Turned Out
They found that teaching gymnasts to learn to keep their hips and shoulders square with the beam and with the hips and feet turned out resulted in better balance (which they have understood in ballet for years).

Soviet Beam Complex
Equally important to developing confidence and balance on beam is the idea that gymnasts need to learn to be comfortable on their hands on beam.  Translate that to mean
gymnasts will perform better on beam if they have mastered handstands on the beam.

Build Handstand Strength and Balance
To master handstands requires not only developing handstand balance but developing sufficient strength to control and maneuver handstands and control and maneuver passing through handstand positions (like in tumbling).

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