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?

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)

… 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.

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

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.

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)

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? …

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… 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.

… 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. …

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… 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.

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More MunchTheSilivasFan.

(Linked by Brett MacAulay on Facebook.)

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?