Kelly Manjak recommends this Canadian documentary.
… by director Paul Cowan is about four athletes and a team that competed in the 1976 Olympics. They had trained courageously to be among those who would mount the podium to receive a medal. None of them did, but was it worth the effort?
I’ll Go Again answers the question.
You can watch it for free on the National Film Board site. Or click PLAY. (41min)
It features gymnast Phillippe Delasalle.
That was the Olympics where the East Germans were rumoured to have a drug boat off-shore.
…Wolfe was way ahead of his time particularly when one considers the surfaces tumblers had to contend with in the 20s and 30s. …
Had the International Gymnastics Federation recognized elements by naming them for one performer or another, a double twisting stretched back somersault might today be recalled as a “Wolfe”.
He was the first to perform this element in the Olympic Games.
… Wolfe could also perform a double back. He related that he did not perform a double back in the Olympics since his coach was not a reliable spotter. He describes a pile of corrugated cardboard arranged loosely in one corner of the gym along with rags and other soft material. He would then attempt double backs into the corner!
… He had a famous teammate, Charlie Pond, who later coached at the University of Illinois. Another DAC tumbler, Barbara Galleher Tonry, won nine NAAU tumbling titles. Every acrobat owes Pond a debt of gratitude since it was he who developed the twisting belt that bears his name. …
I’m in awe at how difficult Men’s gymnastics is today. Butterfly to Invert Cross on Rings !? … Merde.
Secondly, that (somehow) male gymnasts have found a way to manage the escalation of difficulty since 2006. It can’t go on like this forever, though. Nor can the value of your house keep increasing forever.
I hauled out one of my most popular articles the other day, recommending to coaches of kids who do not yet twist to take care to prevent the dread Barani Confusion.
Confusion about the actual direction of twist on a forward somersault is a real and common problem. Many gymnasts twist in the wrong direction; that is, a gymnast attempting to twist to the left actually twists to the right.
Best practice is to post the linked series of charts on the gym wall near tramp, monitoring your new twisters closely. Especially on forward twisting.
Even better practice would be to ask a trampoline expert to help you evaluate your kids, deciding on direction of twist for each.
The purpose of a kip is to connect from a value part and/or to a value part. The high position on both of these might help some girls kip ‘late’, making the subsequent cross support swing easier.
In 2010 Hardy Fink, Director of FIG Education & Academy Programmes, organized 30 courses worldwide. Yet it seems there’s no slowing down.
During the remainder of 2011 there are four confirmed Level 3/Brevet Academies:
For Acrobatic Gymnastics (Lisbon, Portugal, June 22-29),
Rhythmic Gymnastics (Tokyo, Japan, December 5-12)
Artistic Gymnastics (Cancun, Mexico, November 14-21 and Tokyo, Japan, December 13-20).
FIG is looking for host nations for these courses to be held in early 2012:
MAG-WAG French/English proposed for Europe;
AER in Europe and Spanish in Central/South America;
RG February 18-25 in Portugal and Spanish in Central/South America;
TRA proposed January 15-22 in Europe and Spanish in Central/South America;
ACRO English/Spanish proposed for Europe.
First season: … gymmie is clueless, and mom is clueless. It’s all fun and games. The novelty comes from wearing a leo at a young age and getting to wear intricate web-style hair styles and pretty scrunchies.
Mom has no clue about the sport, has no concept of what scores are, what skill elements are required, what routines should look like, and is pretty oblivious to other gyms in the area because she chose the one right down the street from her house. The focus is not on winning at all…..all concern is placed on her own gymmie and whether or not she will make it through the routine without running off the floor crying or having to go pee pee. …
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