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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)

gymnastics – Tkachev video

The best drills I’ve ever seen for Tkachev were on the trench pit at Woodward West Gym Camp. Coach Don Eckert.

… Often Don had only a WEEK to teach the entire skill to camp kids.

Check this excellent video put together by Don. Some drills you’ve never seen before.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

gymnastics – Layout Tkachev

Love this photo of Fabian Hambuechen (2005) by Adam Pretty / Getty Images.

(via About.com Gymnastics)

introducing Kaboom on trampoline

One of the weirder drills on tramp, it’s useful for orientation for parallel bar skills (Stutz, Diamodov, etc.) and for release moves like Jaeger.

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Don Eckert posted some advanced Kaboom skills by Bob Robbins.

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Bar – tangent of release

Bar clinic today. We’ll be talking, as always, about tangent of release:

… the body’s mass center exits from any external swing at a 90° angle to its radius of rotation (tangent to the swing) …

Just as the archer’s bow establishes the flight direction of the arrow, so too does the tangent release establish the flight direction of the gymnast. …

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double back tucked

Information excerpted from Championship Gymnastics: Biomechanical Techniques for Shaping Winners, by Gerald S. George, Ph.D.

That graphic would generate a discussion regarding whether or not she might “pull-in” to the bar by shortening the body before release. … She might.

I’ll use this layout flyaway graphic, instead, to introduce the concept of “tanget” to the point of release of swing.

Of course the path of flight is a “parabola” after release. (Unless the gymnast goes straight up, straight down.)

The problem with biomechanics is the risk of generating more heat than light.

YOG Gymnastics final FINALS

Artistic Gymnastics has concluded.

China’s Tan Sixin was the STAR of the final day of Finals.

Floor: 1. Tan (CHN) 2. Bulimar (ROU) 3. Komova (RUS)
Beam: 1. Tan (CHN) 2. Ferlito (ITA) 3. Donald
… Komova 7th (2 falls)

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 30: Sixin Tan of China competes on the Beam during day two of the 2010 Pacific Rim Championships at Hisense Arena on April 30, 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)


Vault: 1. Ganbat (MGL) 2. Arican (TUR) 3. Abad (ESP)
Parallel Bars: 1. Stepko (UKR) 2. Muntean (ROU) 3. Edalli (ITA)
High Bar: 1. Oldham (GBR) 2. Abad (ESP) 3. Zhu (CHN)

via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook

Congratulations to IOC, FIG and meet organizers. I’m astonished how smoothly the Artistic discipline has gone. In fact, the Games themselves seem to be a big WIN for Olympic sport.

online Bar session with Watanabe

Alisson Arnold:

Join us for a FREE sample of our LIVE ONLINE coaches seminar with Mas Watanabe teaching “Strap bar basic technique and skill development” on Tuesday, August 17th at 6pm PST/9pm EST.

All you need to do is – email andrea AT docaliarnold.com and request instructions on how to access your free online session!

Term 3 begins Tuesday, August 24th!

Live presentations by Cheryl Jarrett, Tony Retrosi, Mary Lee Tracy, Russell Warfield, and Tammy Biggs are scheduled.

Good but expensive, I feel.

gymnastics – bar wrist rips

Canadian gymnast Brittany Rogers is back in the gym, still recovering from her foot injury suffered competing in Australia.

But what gym? Rumour has it that she’s switched from Omega to Phoenix.

Brittany posted this photo of her wrist under the caption – Bars love me.

Not too bad. Yet.

But recall it was an infection of the wrist that took Nadia out of the 1979 World Championships All-around.

Do you have a strategy for treatment / prevention of Bar wrist rip?

My best advice is to use vasoline under a neoprene wrist band. Often with a cloth wristband overtop.

UPDATE: Sara wraps electrical tape around her wrist, then wristbands as normal. … Any duct tape solution sounds good to me!

comparing Tkachevs

On Chalk Bucket coaches are discussing, as they love to do, Reverse Hecht.

There are many, many different ways to do that technically easy, psychologically difficult, trick. Best advice is to look at the ultimate performances to date. Cade Raggio, for example.

Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.

Click through to see the discussion – Chalk Bucket – Tkatchev: Men’s vs. Women’s technique

Valentin Uzunov and others have already weighed in.

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American Gymnast’s Jay Thornton

Gymnastics Examiner posted an exceptional interview with Jay, the man who missed qualifying for two Olympics. Yet has become one of the biggest success stories in the USA with his website American Gymnast.

Examiner.com: Can you tell me a little about your childhood in gymnastics?

Jay Thornton: “I was very fortunate to have several a wonderful coaches from the beginning. I was a pretty good twister. I was a little bit bigger as a kid and I had that going against me. I’m about 5’10″ and competed at about 170 pounds. I was a bit bigger as a kid and wasn’t the most physically gifted, but my first coach, Tim Erwin, started preparing me with sound gymnastics technique from the day one.”

Examiner.com: When did you decide you wanted to go to the Olympics?

J.T.: “When I was 10 years old. It was 1984, the year of the Los Angeles Olympics and I, like every other gymnast at the time, was watching the ’84 U.S. Men’s Olympic team compete. When I saw them win that gold medal, I knew at that point that I wanted to become an Olympic gymnast.” …

Read about the coach who taught him to love gymnastics, Nick Brancheau. His inspirations: Roethlisberger and Bilozertchev. And how he reconnected with the woman who would become his wife.

Gymnastics Examiner – Catching up with American Gymnast’s Jay Thornton

The advantage of buying grips and equipment from American Gymnast is that Jay truly knows the sport inside out. Here’s his reaction to to Sho Nakamori’s post on his Reisport Ring grips tearing after only 2 days.

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Jay’s younger brother Andy, who also competed for the University of Iowa, posts an excellent blog, Andy’s Angle, on American Gymnast. I read it religiously.

Note that the coaching video tutorial section has a new address: Gymnastics on Demand

gymnastics bar grip changes

The guest coach bar gurus at our camp in Idaho are Yves Hauglustaine (Altadore) and John Smith (NASA).

John asked that all girls in all groups work towards this drill to improve their grip changes for future skills.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Those sole circles are appropriately called “monkey circles” at host Avant Coeur.

gymnastic grip breaks after 2-days

Sho Nakamori had a ring grip break after only 2-days use.

He was lying on the ground after peeling off on a dismount before he discovered what had happened.

The manufacturer is Reisport, as good as any of the competitors, I’d say.

Over the years I’ve seen many Reisport grips break in only a matter of days, but never Ring grips. Horizontal Bar grips normally get stretched and break sooner.

Solution?

Dave Bucci in a comment on Full Twist said this:

NOT unheard of. Our friend, Mario West, had the exact same thing happen at the Winter Cup a year and a half ago — High Bar was his first event, and it happened during warmups. It didn’t injure him badly, but it affected the whole meet.

Since then, he’s been going to a gentleman in Gaithersburg, MD named “Tien” (not sure of the spelling), who handcrafts his grips. Apparently, the Japanese and Chinese national teams both buy from this craftsman as well, and Mario seems to have more confidence in his grips.

Leave a comment if you have any advice on where to get gymnastics grips more durable than Reisport.

gymnastics – free hip drill

If you have a trench pit

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(posted by Al Fong)