Entries Tagged 'bars' ↓

Wow.

Stoop shoot > piked Russian giants to Jaeger.

Nicolette McNair of Gym-Max and the Region 1 team training bars during the 2012 JO Nationals in Hampton

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Watch more video of 2012 J.O. National Championships on gymnastike.org

From Gym-Max.

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Anna can do almost anything on Bars.

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(via USAG on Facebook)

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Couch Gymnast:

… Bea Gheorghisor gives a comprehensive look at the Romanian training during the morning’s podium training session as well as video of the girls training. It seems that Romanian are competing as expected, strong on their pet events; beam and floor, while bars is still lacking …

Bars

When the Romanian gymnasts arrived for podium training yesterday, it was Diana Bulimar, Raluca Haidu, Larisa Iordache and Sandra Izbasa who stepped up and trained uneven bars. The most consistent in this rotation was Larisa Iordache. She managed three or four full sets with only minor form breaks. Diana Bulimar was pretty steady as well. Her form though, was not as consistent: she sometimes hits every handstand, has great straight elbows but other times she pikes her body a little bit and loses the rhythm. You can see that she is struggling to overcome this. Raluca Haidu, on the other hand has much better form but looked the most inconsistent of the three. She had issues especially on her Giant 1/2 to Jaeger. Sandra Izbasa did train bars as well – in her usual style, a bit slow with some form breaks but nothing big. She dismounts with a double twist. …

Romanian Podium Training Report and Video

Diana Chelaru is there, perhaps just observing the competition.

TAA linked to an interesting interview with Head Coach Octavian Bellu.

It may be a close Team competition. Romanian consistency vs Russian brilliance.

Grishina

(via Pushy Queen)

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A couple of carefully edited clips from the April Women’s National Team Camp at Karolyi Ranch.

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Click PLAY or watch Finnegan’s Beam on YouTube.

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From Bea & Blythe. SURPRISES at podium training:

team: Sweden, so improved!

… Roxana Popa of Spain. I’d never heard of her before, but she’s one of five gymnasts I’d shortlist for the all-around title.

… Kim Singmuang‘s full twisting double layout off bars. And the prospect of her having a double double!

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Kim’s improved greatly since 2011. (VIDEO)

Top three teams and why: Italy, Russia, Romania. Though maybe not in that order. …

Top three all-around and why: Maria Kharenkova (RUS), Roxana Popa (ESP), Elisa Meneghini (ITA). Not necessarily in that order. Honorable mention: Noemie Makra (HUN) and Enus Mariani (ITA). …

Coach of the day: Cristian Moldovan, ROM. Lovely to see him being a great mentor to the young Romanians, showing corrections with kindness, gently lifting spirits and demonstrating that he was there every step of the way.

Examiner – B & B’s Junior Europeans podium training summary

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I’ve got kids starting this skill next week.

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Ideally you want a Tumbl Trak Quick Flex bar for this.

The long swing into the Reverse Hecht is best taught on a straps bar.

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Bea Gheorghisor wrote the best article I’ve seen yet on the Romanian Juniors:

… who should we expect to see at Euros? Some the same names that were sent to Jeloso and Cholet: Stefania Stanila, Silvia Zarzu, Bianca Ciobanu, Miriam Aribasoiu, Paula Tudorache, Diana Teodoru and Maria Rauta are among the favorites. Andreea Munteanu, who is coming back from injury, was recently added to the mix as well.

In both competitions mentioned above, their strongest apparatus was floor and the weakest – uneven bars. …

… The most gifted on this apparatus seems to be Miriam Aribasoiu: her lines are quite good …

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On beam things are far better compared to UB. In both aforementioned meets there were a lot of falls but even with all the deductions for the falls, they compensate a lot with their almost senior-level difficulty. …

In Brussels, at the European Championships, they will probably fight for the bronze medal in the team final. …

Couch Gymnast – The Road to Euros: The Romanian Junior Team

There’s much more, including videos, via that link.

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FIG posted a terrific photo of Christine Lee on Bars. Click through to find out how to get a high resolution version.

Canada’s women were most successful in Osijek with three Golds in all. The country’s top performer at the 2011 World Championships, Christine Lee, outscored the field on Uneven Bars (14.475), while sixteen year old Elsabeth Black won Saturday’s Vault Final (14.575) and edged out Switzerland’s Giulia Steingruber for the Floor title (13.725) on Sunday …

FIG Artistic Gymnastics Challenge Cup
Grand Prix Osijek 2012

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TimAlan sends a link to Ruby’s wildly exciting Bar routine from the recent meet in Ulm, Germany.

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Great way to get into Bhardwaj.

Ruby trains at The Academy in Portishead, UK.

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… Days after a judge ruled she should still be in contention for the Olympics, Céline van Gerner was back in competition on two events. Van Gerner notched the top mark on uneven bars, 14.900, and scored 12.900 on beam. …

On Monday, a Dutch judge ruled in favor of van Gerner, who filed a lawsuit stating the Dutch federation’s selection of Wyomi Masela for the team’s sole Olympic berth was premature. The judge ruled that the federation should wait to decide until after the European championships in May and Ghent Challenger Cup in June. The ruling was the same in the case brought earlier by Jeffrey Wammes, who successfully sued the federation after it named Epke Zonderland as its representative for London. …

… Masela, meanwhile, averaged 14.275 on vault (14.550 for double-twisting Yurchenko and 14.000 for Podkopayeva) and scored 13.650 on floor exercise in Waalwijk. Masela, third on vault at the Olympic test event, said she was happy with her performance Saturday. …

IG – Dutch Earn Double Victory at Waalwijk Tri-Meet

That link has WAG & MAG scores from a Netherlands v Belgium v Sweden friendly.

Click PLAY or watch van Gerner’s Bars on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Masela’s Floor on YouTube.

For all drama Dutch, follow GymPOWER.

Note that those videos can be expanded to full screen. For some reason I now need to post the full embed code rather than the “short code” to get all the YouTube features to work.

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We do a wall handstand program every day. I’m adding some of these new pirouette drills from Mary Lee Tracy.

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Mary Lee and her Cincinnati girls are down at Karolyi camp.

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For most young girls, learning kip (upstart) will take longer than any other skill. Many kids will do good giants before they master kip.

The best kip instructional videos online are posted by JAO.

Here are some others, City of Birmingham Gymnastics with coaches Krystie Newton and Jody Kime.

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I’d try all of those with all kids. You never know what’s going to help them make it click.

My favourite drill of all is kip on the end of parallel bars, significantly easier than any kip on a single rail.

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Larissa Iordache 60.15
Sandra Izbasa 56.60
Anne Kuhm 56.35 – FX
Diana Chelaru 55.00
Amelia Racea 54.85
Clara Della Vedova 53.45

… First year senior Larissa Iordache ran away with the All Around title with a score of 60.150. In the Senior Team competition, Romania excelled, scoring over 10 points higher than France. International Gymnast has a great report here with full details and results, including results from the Junior competition. …

Full Twist links to videos from that friendly.

Click PLAY or watch Iordache’s Beam on YouTube.

related – Andy Thornton – Romanian Team Coming Alive For London

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