Entries Tagged 'floor tumbling' ↓

Geddert – Gymnastics Coach DVDs

Over the past few years, my favourite videos have been those put together by John Geddert, coach of Jordyn Wieber and dozens of excellent athletes.

His Yurchenko DVD is still the best single resource out there.

Previously you had to email John … or see him at an event … to buy them. Those days are over.

Brilliantly, John’s using Facebook to promote and distribute.

If you are a member of Facebook, click through to his DVDs page.

They are $30ea or 4 for $100. (Ask your club to buy them for the staff.)

He will have a website, as well. But it’s not up and running, as yet.

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NOTICE: Starting Oct. 1st this site is going to start linking directly to Facebook pages. If you are not a member, that’s going to be frustrating.

But even Dave Adlard and Miguel Costante have joined FB. How many more coach holdouts could there be?

2010 Men’s Gymnastics video

Best MAG edit in a long, long time. Don’t miss this one.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (8min 38sec)

That’s from RedNasvw who lives in Rotterdam.

Men’s gymnastics is still evolving. It’s exciting. It’s amazing. … Much more so than WAG.

(via Michael Outram)

tumbling at Texas Dreams

Don’t pound if you really don’t have to …

… Texas Dreams elite coach Chris Burdette explains a set up they use to work tumbling on their low impact days. They have an air track set up on an incline which allows them to get numerous tumbling repetitions with just a back handspring entry.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

Advanced gymnasts like this are better off on the Air Floor, I’d say.

Variations of this inflatable apparatus are available from TumblTrak.

More reps, less stress.

full twisting flyspring on Tramp

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s ‘E” from Go For It Gymnastics in Las Vegas.

YOG Gymnastics FINALS

UPDATE: detailed report from The All AroundKomova Remains Golden in Singapore

More Komova.

Women’s
Vault: 1. Komova (RUS) 2. Vargas (ESP); 3. Ferlito (ITA)
Bars: 1. Komova (RUS) 2. Tan (CHN) 3. Adlerteg (SWE)

Gymnicetic WAG LIVE blog and full results.

Note: there are some different rules in this meet. These scores cannot be directly compared with F.I.G.

Viktoria Komova of Russia celebrates her win after her floor routine in the women's individual all-around final of the artistic gymnastics competition at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) August 19, 2010. REUTERS/Issei Kato (SINGAPORE - Tags: SPORT OLYMPICS GYMNASTICS)

Men’s
FX: 1. Vila Sarria (CUB) 2. Stepko (UKR) 3. Zhu (CHN)
Pommel Horse: 1. Stepko 2. Oldham 3. Kazachkov
Rings: 1. Muntean (ROU) 2. Kamoto (JPN) 3. Abad (ESP)

Going for Gold has some coverage on both WAG and MAG finals:

Men’s Floor: Dark Horse Ernesto Vila Sarria of Cuba took the Gold (score 14.575) ahead of a mistake ridden men’s field. …

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

efficiency of gymnastics training

We are much criticized, as you know.

Here’s a good idea from Al Fong:

How efficient is your team’s workout? How many turns do your gymnasts get in a 30 minute rotation? A 45 minute rotation? An hour? …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… as an example, our team doesn’t gather at the beginning end of the tramp directly opposite the resi pit landing. Instead they stand perpendicular to the resi so they can watch each other tumble, hear the coaching comments, and even help coach their fellow team mates.

Only 2 people line up at the beginning end as one is walking to line up behind them. This keeps the athletes totally concentrated on the task at hand. If everyone clumps up at the end, the line goes slower and it’s easier to be tempted to lose focus.

Texas Dreams gymnastics workout

Looks very efficient, not easy when you have so many good kids.

… Coaches Chris Burdette and Kim Zmeskal-Burdette will have 6 gymnasts representing Texas Dreams next week in Hartford at the 2010 US Championships.

They have 5 junior elite qualifiers: Kennedy Baker, Dare Maxwell, Claire Boyce, Ashton Kim, and Peyton Ernst (Kiana Winston qualified but won’t compete due to injury). Their lone senior elite is former national team member Chelsea Davis who will be competing in her first major national competition since the 2008 Olympic Trials. Watch how former World Champion and Olympian Kim Zmeskal-Burdette prepares her athletes for US Nationals, a meet she herself has won numerous times. …

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

Watanabe – advanced bwd handspring

Naama Arad, like me, was challenged by this Gymnastics Minute instructional by coaching legend Mas Watanabe.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… My advice to Naama is to consider this an advanced technique. Beginners should perfect long, low backward handspring series first. (Think of a rock skipping across a lake.)

Manjak has gymnasts do many sets of 5 normal ffs every day, for example.

Much, much later you can shape the skill for specific reasons, as Watanable is doing here.

difficult tumbling montage

I’d linked to this video in the past, but it seems that link is broken.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

More MunchTheSilivasFan.

(Linked by Brett MacAulay on Facebook.)

Twisters Cheer Camp 2010

A good edit.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (8:44)

These girls are great. While watching, I had an epiphany:

If Cheer didn’t tumble, Artistic gymnastics coaches would enjoy the sport. Enjoy it as much as Acrobatic Gymnastics.

The turn off for Artistic is dangerous tumbling.

Am I right?

introducing backward handspring

Another terrific video tutorial from JAO:

A skill as old as the back handspring will have a thousand different drills to help learn it. This video represents a few of my favorites, but it is by no means exhaustive.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Of thousands of good drills like these, for me only 3 are critical:

trust fall (spotted)
trust fall bend knees slightly, straighten knees, return to start position (spotted)
• … same as #2, but the gymnast is spotted on a tip over to handstand on some

The trust fall is the most difficult part of the flicflac for beginners.

Beginners, once they can do it on the trampoline, should train downhill to ensure good technique.

Beginners should do long and low backward handsprings until they can do series. At that point coaches can consider advanced techniques … shortening the distance of the second half, for example.

There are 8 more great video tutorials on the JAO YouTube channel.

gymnast Jayd Lukenchuk – training

Jayd trains at Taiso, Saskatoon with coach Markos Baikas. He’s one of the young Seniors Canada is counting on in the future.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks Dean Kalyan.

Marcel Nguyen – 3/1 twisting double back

Andy Thorton:

As you may know, a “Ri Jong Song” is a triple twisting double back on floor (named for the Korean who competed it in Athens in 2004). There have been a very small handful of other gymnasts who have competed or at least done this skill on the real floor…Justin Spring and Kohei Uchimura to name a couple.

Want to see it stuck perfectly in competition? Germany’s Marcel Nguyen did just that in the all-around competition of the Japan Cup this weekend. This video shows four of his routines, but his floor routine starts right at 3:00. …

Click PLAY or watch Marcel Nguyen PB, HB, FX, PH 2010 Japan Cup on YouTube. Or you can jump directly to Floor by clicking here.

Andy Thornton – American Gymnast – Smooth Skills…Incredible STUCK tumbling pass!