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Travis Wong pro reel

coach Rick — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:02:10 +0000

ACTOR. CHOREOGRAPHER. DANCER. FREERUNNER. INSTRUCTOR. MARTIAL ARTIST. STUNTMAN.

This traceur has a serious career. He’s one of The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (LXD), for one.

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Travis-Wong.com

(via FlipCatch)

flash mob – Sound of Music

coach Rick — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:01:30 +0000

Central Station Antwerp, Belgium

More than 200 dancers …

It is a promotion stunt for a Belgian television program, where they are looking for someone to play the leading role, in the musical of “The Sound of Music”.

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Linked by (fantastic) choreographer Jenne Smart Kissell on Facebook.

Podkopayeva – I think she can dance

coach Rick — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:02:40 +0000

The “complete package”, 1996 Olympic all-around champion Lilia Podkopayeva is one of most popular gymnasts in history.

Lilia Podkopayeva & Sergey Kostetskiy finished 3rd for Ukraine at the Eurovision Dance Contest 2008.

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(via Body Rhythm)

teaching dance head position

coach Rick — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:02:27 +0000

Creating long beautiful line leaves a favorable impression with the judges. Here Donna Culp shows a how to create long beautiful lines through your shoulders and head.

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Akai, The Box reach ‘Got To Dance’ final

coach Rick — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:28:56 +0000

A 10yr-old street dancer and Glasgow ballet group impressed on a British reality TV dance contest.

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via @icclevix

Soviet gymnastics – Where Did Our Love Go?

coach Rick — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:07:31 +0000

So odd. So original. This is spooky good.

naimushina dudnik mostepanova baraksanova chudina bicherova omelianchik

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Perhaps I’ll evolve into a recluse who refuses to listen to any music later than 1989. Or to watch any gymnast after Omelienchik.

This was chosen by the new montage blog, Quitter’s Try. Thanks!

That video was posted by gentilly86 from France. I instantly subscribed.

Floor gasm – video

coach Rick — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:09:00 +0000

Some gymnastics “Floor Exercises” I’d never seen before. This is the kind of creativity no longer rewarded in Artistic gymnastics.

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Comment on that post from explodingp:

… Next video Floorgy?

acrobatic dance troupe – STREB

coach Rick — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:22:42 +0000

Dory Dynna linked to a highlights reel. Very cool … but they seem to fall down, a lot. ☺ He’s got tickets to see them in Vancouver as part of the arts festival held in conjunction with the Winter Olympics.

Promotional video for STREB with highlights from Wild Blue Yonder, STREB VS GRAVITY, Cirque du Soleil and the David Letterman Show

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… “It’s a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight, and wild action sport,” says Elizabeth Streb, the daredevil founder of the Brooklyn-based STREB Extreme Action Company. …

Streb, an exuberant 60-year-old with spiky black hair, has won a MacArthur “genius” award for her work with the company she created in 1985. She remains fit a decade after she stopped performing her own choreography — so physically demanding, each move is calculated mathematically to avert catastrophe. …

read more: Daring dancers ready for Olympiad

teaching gymnasts to keep legs straight

coach Rick — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:04:49 +0000

In the former Soviet Union young boys and girls took 1hr ballet training every day.

No wonder they had great “form”.

Most gymnastics coaches in 2010 need to find faster, more efficient methods to motivate and teach children to keep legs straight, feet stretched.

Keeping great leg form will improve your scores. Here Mary Lee Tracy shows several drills to improve leg strength and improve leg form.

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I really appreciate busy coaches like Mary Lee taking time to share with us.

You can support Mary Lee and Gymnastics Minute by buying and recommending her popular coaching DVDs on GymSmarts.

choreographing UCLA Floor routines

coach Rick — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:50:21 +0000

There’s a fascinating video online where Head Coach Valorie Kondos Field explains how she comes up with those unforgettable UCLA Floor routines.

And how she keeps coming up with new ones every year since 1983.

Watch it online.

related – Kyle from Gymnastike interviews Anna Li