While Native Youth Olympics events like the Wrist Carry and the Two-Foot High Kick might seem wildly different, 'in all the games, your core is what you need,” Anchorage coach Joanna Hopson said. via sportsadn
The Wrist Carry event requires more than just wrist strength as a team competes at the Native Youth Olympics at the Alaska Airlines Center on Thursday, April 21, 2022.
The Wrist Carry shows the significance of a successful hunt, traditionally tests the strength and endurance of hunters, and shows appreciation for the animal giving itself. In this event an athlete hooks their wrist around the middle of a horizontal wooden pole and is carried by two teammates for as long as they can stay off the ground.
“I usually practice once or twice a day,” Smith said. “It’s really hard to practice for because you’re using your wrist, and there’s not much you can train with that, so usually when I practice it’s actually doing it or working my wrist somehow.” This event takes a tremendous amount of core strength and engages the entire body from head to toe. The top finishers among the girls was Eden Hopson of Anchorage and for the boys it was Colton Paul of Mt. Edgecumbe.
“I go up against a wall, do a handstand and shift all my weight on to one hand and then try to grab my kicking foot just to help me learn how to go vertical,” Hopson said. Steven Anahonak of Ninilchik practices his Scissor Broad Jump on January 21, 2011, for a Junior Native Youth Olympics competition.
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