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Yao Jinnan training Mo

I love Gaylord 1 in Men’s Gymnastics. It’s dangerous, though. Miss long, you might over-rotate to a tragic landing.

Adding the half twist for Pegan is far more difficult — but safer.

Gaylord 1 on Bars (Mo salto) does not have much future in WAG, I fear. Will we ever see one with much amplitude?

What can you do out of it?

… Jaeger?

mo salto

UPDATE from melanie:

It would be a shame if we never saw the Mo again in WAG.

I think, if it were possible to do it with enough amplitude facing away from the low bar, a gymnast might go straight into a Yezhova (which is another skill we don’t see enough of).

UPDATE from ber:

At least for this quad, it won’t have to be connected. They removed the empty swing deduction after the Mo salto, and the counter-kim elements.

That was posted by Wats Good Gabby.

WOGymnastike linked to it. And has the Mo Salto shown in competition. (VIDEO)

Gymneo – Flyaway

Here’s the latest teaser from Gymneo.TV out of France.

As a Canadian, I MUST be perfectly bilingual. :)

But I sure wish these awesome gymnastics coaching tutorials were sold with subtitles in other languages. Hint hint.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Awesome graphics.

That said — these videos reveal a fatal flaw.

IMHO no flyaway drill should ever have the feet come within 1 metre (1 yard) of the rail. That’s goal #1 for me while teaching the skill.

This skill requires no strength, no flexibility. Critical is psychology. Confidence is everything.

This demonstrator is not confident to keep her feet stretched. And we know why.

on Deltchev

Stoyan Deltchev from Bulgaria is the 1980 Olympic Champion on Horizontal Bar. Today he runs Deltchev Gymnastics in Reno, Nevada.

Here’s his signature skill.

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Couch Gymnast linked to Elena Piskun (1994). Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Here’s some Deltchev training VIDEO.

Most gymnasts, male and female, start with layout Geinger. Later doing the skill in pike or straddle pike (Deltchev) only if they cannot compete layout.

I can’t recall the last male gymnast I saw compete Deltchev. Leave a comment if you do.

It’s nice to see some variety in WAG release skills. But I’d only try Deltchev if a girl had problems with Geinger. It might work for those who already do a good straddled Jaeger. Girls very comfortable with fast straddled hip flexion.

Connecting like Piskun does is really tough.

building a strap bar

JAO is at it again.

Improving his gym.

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Order your colored athletic tape from Pre-Wrap.com. Very fast order placement and shipment.

Using PVC pipe for swings on a Bar is great for beginners. Hand width is locked. There’s no worry about grip.

Once they can do a skill 10 times in one turn on the Bar, I ask them to switch to griping old socks taped on to the rail. To start learning the grip shift. And how to vary width of the hands.

Straps Taiso

If you are at all worried when making the switch, put a small hip pad between the hands.

Straps

Leave a comment if you have additional tips.

Kolman to 1-arm

Plenty of guys have done that by accident. Over a pit.

Here’s the only guy I’ve seen TRY to do it on purpose.

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Bar – Blind hop Blind

Interesting – Blind with hop change of support hand, to Blind. Giant full without traveling to the side. Smart.

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“Blind” change is a terrible name.

More accurate would be …

Reach under turn with hop change of support hand, to reach under.

Could be a progression for hop 1/1.

That’s a new video from Italian gymnast Emily Armi.

via GymFever

Uchimura – triple doubles

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That Floor at Worlds Tokyo was VERY VERY springy.

(via GymaWeb – Gymnastique on Facebook)

Sharipov in Canada

Gymnastics Mississauga:

Thank you to former Olympic Champion, Mr. Rustam Sharipov for visiting Gymnastics Mississauga and sharing a wealth of information and experience with our MAG athletes!

Sharipov

Rustam attended Nationals, recruiting for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He’s Head Coach.

When I reminded him of his performance showing 8 or more Tkachevs in series, in the good old days, he told us an interesting anecdote.

Rustam actually had problems learning Tkachev. Two men’s coaches could barely throw him over the Bar.

Finally he tried it on the women’s rail, and had immediate success.

width of Horizontal Bar mats

Nathan Gafuik was competing H Bar.

On a Stalder Rybalko one hand slipped. He fell, landing hard on the red safety edge matting.

Horizontal Bar mats

Mats of this width were only introduced at Canadian Championships two years ago.

Formerly they were only as wide as the support standards.

Thank Gymnova for bringing such wide landing mats.

Curse FIG MTC for not devaluing Rybalko this Code. It’s obvious that those elements are overused, poorly executed and very dangerous. :-(

Nathan Gafuik – Cassina

In training at National Championships 2013.

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Not many of the top guys, including Nate, competed the AA at National Championships this year.

The focus in advance of Worlds 2013 Belgium is raising start values on your best apparatus enough to be competitive with the elite of the world.

4 finger grips?

Blanton’s Gymnastics Consultancy on Facebook:

Anyone ever tried these?

4 finger grips

Uchimura H Bar – 15.900

Tak 1/2 to Kolman.

Triple double dismount.

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D 7.000
E 8.900

H Bar stoop shoot drill

Nick Blanton:

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Nick’s been sharing his videos (over 50) on Facebook, as well.