Gymnastike posted this on Halloween. Funny.
From Temple University.
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Entries Tagged 'horizontal bar' ↓
banana on Horizontal Bar
November 7th, 2009 — Gymnastics, NCAA, horizontal bar, humour
pirouette drill – Mizoguchi
October 26th, 2009 — Gymnastics, bars, horizontal bar
Here is an interesting and difficult drill from Hideo (Mizo) Mizoguchi to improve pirouettes on uneven and high bar.
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Horizontal Bar rules suck
October 18th, 2009 — Gymnastics, horizontal bar, judging
World Championships Finals – Horizontal Bar
1. Zou CHN,
2. Zonderland NED,
3. Cassina ITA,
4. Leyva USA,
5. Pegan SLO,
6. Uchimura JPN,
7. Tsarevich BLR,
8. Horton USA
full results (PDF)
Give me a break.
You cannot tell me Zou Kai is better on High Bar than Uchimura. Never has an athlete been more over rewarded than Zou Kai on this apparatus. This is embarassing for our sport.
In fact, horizontal bar is the least interesting apparatus right now, men and women.
The judging regulations are to blame. Why doesn’t the FIG devalue Rybalko?
We need to go back to rewarding connected release moves. And taking more deduction for glaring form breaks on Kolman.
gymnastics progressions – Geinger
September 29th, 2009 — Gymnastics, bars, horizontal bar
We saw a glimpse of this excellent series of drills in the Aerial Athletics training video.
Coach Ryan Snider of Aerial Athletics shows off the gienger progression he uses on uneven bars. He breaks down the skill into 2 quarter turns. This produces beautiful, high giengers with potential to even upgrade into a def later on …
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I’ve never thought of it as 1/4, 1/4 … but there might be some advantage in adding those steps.
We could also have the gymnast do flyaway to stand on the bar, immediately jump forward with half turn … and regrasp on their own, without spot.
Leave a comment if you have additional drills for Geinger. There are some good orientation drills on tramp.
amazing bar skills – saltocafe
September 28th, 2009 — Gymnastics, bars, horizontal bar
How about stoop shoot immediate hop to undergrip? (I’ve seen that one, actually.)
And Shaposhnikova 1/1 !!
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spotting free hip on bars
September 17th, 2009 — Gymnastics, bars, horizontal bar, spotting
Once again I am able to embed Gymnastike videos on this NEW version of GymnasticsCoaching.
Nice!
Coach Jim Jarrett demonstrates the stages of spotting you should go through when teaching a clear hip on uneven bars. Footage is from the Hands On Spotting session of the 2009 GAT Convention.
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Looks good. I’m not convinced that spotting is the best way to teach the skill, though.
Much faster is to learn it and perfect it on safety straps. Then later move it to bars. With as little spotting as possible.
Of course this Gymnastics Association of Texas session was a spotting session. Seems most coaches need to know how to spot a skill before learning how to teach it without spotting.
missing the bar – OUCH
September 16th, 2009 — Gymnastics, bars, biomechanics, horizontal bar, safety
photo originally posted in The Age – Rizzo
(via Australian Gymnastics Blog – Stack It)
When this happens, land FLAT AS A PANCAKE. (That way you dissipate the force over as much surface area as possible.)
German Giants on bars
September 3rd, 2009 — Gymnastics, bars, horizontal bar, safety
Gymnastics Examiner has a good post on this most unusual and painful skill.
Cool skill alert: German giants in combination
Click PLAY or watch Chanen Raygoza on YouTube.
See more routines: Cool skill alert: German giants in combination
Personally I don’t like German Giants even when done by Men.
World’s best Yamawaki – Tamayo
September 1st, 2009 — Gymnastics, bars, horizontal bar, judging
In response to Alia Mustafina – Khorkina 1 on Bars, Don Eckert mentioned the Worlds best Yamawaki by Tamayo!
In recent years for Men the Yamawaki (stretched Markelov) has been included in most routines. The guys consider it an “easy D-part” and a good mount.
More videos like this on the Gibson Athletics SaltoCafe YouTube channel.
… more posts tagged with Tamayo
gloves for bar safety straps
August 19th, 2009 — Gymnastics, bars, horizontal bar, safety
As a follow up from our post gymnastics bar safety straps …
From Evelyn in Ireland:
We use the exfoliating gloves that you can usually buy in any normal chemist/supermarket/drugstore. They work perfect. They are a bit rougher than normal woolen gloves to give more grip. They are inexpensive and the kids can buy them in a variety of different colours which keeps them happy!!
gymnastics bar safety straps
August 18th, 2009 — Gymnastics, bars, horizontal bar, product endorsements, safety
Altadore Gymnastics has 3 safety strap bars. What a luxury!
Only 2 have PVC pipe.
larger version – flickr
Actually, this is my least favourite system. Using the pipe means the kids do not need to flip their wrists in handstand.
My favourite is this system:
… 2 inch (5cm) wide straps with long sport socks (from the lost & found) wrapped around the bar. I want to simulate the feel of the actual wooden rail for the girls.
Mountain Shadows Gymnastics
However, the PVC pipe is easier for beginners. It would be ideal to have both systems on each straps rail in your gym.
related posts:
video – gymnastics safety bar straps new video – Working the Strap Bar
I’ve had a couple of emails lately on how long the straps should be. I find most kids use straps between 26-35cm long, sewn in a loop from 55-75cm length of nylon webbing. (That’s 10-14″ long, from a length of material 21-30″ long.)
Or … you could simply buy them from 10-0. Note that those are the narrower 1″ version.
who invented the Tkachev?
August 16th, 2009 — Gymnastics, bars, biomechanics, horizontal bar
Why Alexandre Tkatchev, of course.
The story goes - true or not - that biomechanists dreamed up the “reverse hecht”, not coaches. And that Alexandre was the first to show it in competition in 1977.
Here he is in the Olympics Games 1980. (Deltchev from Bulgaria won Horizontal Bar.) Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Tkatchev is a coach at West Valley Gymnastics in California.
Deltchev owns Deltchev Gymnastics in Nevada.
Leave a comment if you know more of the history of Tkachev.
What woman competed it first internationally?
Related posts:
gymnastics – best Cassina ever?
August 6th, 2009 — Gymnastics, horizontal bar
Andy Thornton asks if this skill has ever been done better …
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That’s up-and-coming American star Danell Leyva. Only 17yrs-old.
A few commenters quickly responded with this guy:
Click PLAY or watch Justin Spring on YouTube.
