Seyram Atubra was the primary researcher in a study of mainly recreation gymnasts.
British Gymnastics – England commissioned the Institute of Youth Sport to conduct a study to examine the reasons why young gymnasts leave the sport. …
Over 5000 former gymnasts and their parents were asked to complete a survey and telephone interviews were conducted with 40 former gymnasts and their parents. …
Key findings:
• started gymnastics at an average age of 6.2 years and stopped at an average age of 9.9 years
Most important benefits gained from being a gymnast:
• Improved strength and fitness
• Enjoyment/fun
Most important reason for leaving gymnastics:
• ‘boring/repetitive’
• Left to take up a new sport
• Didn’t like the coaches’
I saw this linked from THE ALL AROUND on Facebook.
Zoltán Magyar (original Hungarian name Magyar Zoltán) (born December 13, 1953 in Budapest, Hungary) was the premier pommel horse gymnast in the world in the 1970s. Magyar had two moves named after him, the Magyar spindle … and the Magyar travel …
Magyar finished his career with two Olympic, three world, three European and two World Cup titles on his specialty. …
Albert from Barcelona posted a nice retrospective of his sometimes controversial career. (I’m still irked he wasn’t sanctioned for STANDING on the Vault table in Athens.)
Stanford is rocking, jumping from a preseason #6 ranking to #2 (behind Florida). And Kristina Vaculik has yet to make the big splash that everyone expects.
Defending National Champions UCLA, by comparison, have had nothing but problems so far this season, losing to #4 Utah and # 20 Southern Utah.
… the “Tamayo” necklace from Mimi and Lu ! Symbolizing the 5 Olympic Rings, the first necklace will be part of the Silent Auction at this weekends fundraiser! After that it will be available for purchase and 40% of each purchase will go to Flip for Charlie.
She was injured training Yurchenko 1/2-on, Front off, I understand.
… Forward somersaulting vaults are the most dangerous.
There’s an informative update on the injured Spartan gymnast on MSU Sports Green and White:
(coach) Klages expected Mahoney to be her top all-around gymnast this season. While practicing the vault on Dec. 29, Mahoney didn’t like her angle of trajectory and “bailed” …
Blair Lowe pointed me to this SAVE Cal Gymnastics video.
University of California, Berkeley men’s gymnastics promotional pre-season video. Edited by Nic Blair. Our program has been cut and this is our last year as an NCAA division 1 program. Go to www.calgymnasticsforever.com to pledge and save our program and www.calbears.com for season schedule and roster. Contact nicolasblair@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Ivana Hong is back too, though she never has retired.
It’s a long shot for all of these gymnasts. But the prize – Olympics – is big. And they sense that they have a chance to make the team if they can get in good shape and be uninjured.
Casey Jo’s blog is refreshingly honest:
… Beam has needed one adjustment after the other. Once I got the triple turn consistently I added it to the routine in addition to my double connected that I started connecting with a single full turn. I also was having some consistency issues with the side somi out of the aerial, so I went back to doing that by itself, and put the aerial step through with the switch leap tourjete like I competed at the qualifiers this past summer. They have since improved quite a bit. We rearranged and added in some different dance…and then I was over time! So, we had to take out a bit of dance, and now it looks like every other elite routine –> skill, pose, skill, pose, skill, pose…not what I was hoping for. …
