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Entries Tagged 'horizontal bar' ↓
Bar – Tap Swing drills
April 13th, 2012 — bars, Gymnastics, horizontal bar
Zou Kai – 7.9 difficulty Bar
March 30th, 2012 — ethics, Gymnastics, horizontal bar, Olympics
An Examiner post got me angry about Zou Kai. Again.
Watch this winning routine from Doha. Our over-rated Olympic Champion.
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Good. Not great. It shouldn’t be rated the most difficult routine in the world. It’s not. Our current rules do not work.
Here’s Fabian Hambuchen — truly one of the top Horizontal Bar guys in the world — training similar connections.
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Does the new Code devalue Rybalko? That would solve most of the problem.
(via gymnastikfabriken)
Epke – Cottbus
March 26th, 2012 — Gymnastics, horizontal bar
Chris Brooks – Olympian?
March 21st, 2012 — Gymnastics, horizontal bar, Olympics
I got a fair bit of well-informed disabuse for suggesting that Chris might be the #3 guy on the USA OLympic Team.
Read those comments here.
Brooks is in the mix, without question. I’m liking his consistency. This “Chinese-style construction” Horizontal Bar routine, for example. These are scoring well this quad. It’s a safe routine to put up in the Team final.
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gymnastics rips are “injuries”
March 20th, 2012 — bars, Gymnastics, horizontal bar, safety, sport medicine
See what I mean.
Hard days work at the gym by @zacharydlang at #gymnastics #gross #crazy — with Zac Lang.
wall handstands
March 16th, 2012 — bars, Gymnastics, handstands, horizontal bar, physical preparation
Arriving at a new gym, the very FIRST thing I did was put a handstand complex into the warm-up.
I’d say this is the most valuable 4-6min during our workout.
Tumbling Drills has a nice instructional on how to introduce wall handstand to beginners.
My go to source for physical preparation is Gymnastic Bodies. Coach Sommer literally wrote the book on the topic:
Wall handstands are your most valuable tool for learning a correct handstand. I recommend staying with them for a substantial period of time. …
To transition from wall handstands to free standing handstands, try the following drill: Perform a wall handstand with stomach to the wall. Place your wrists approximately 4-6? from the base of the wall. Keep one foot on the wall while pulling the other foot off the wall and extending that leg directly over your hips. At this time, your wrists, shoulders, hips and leg that is off the wall should be in one vertical line. Once you feel that you have achieved a strong stable position, slowly pull your supporting foot off the wall. When you lose your balance, simply catch yourself by replacing the foot on the wall and then continue on with the drill. …
Free of the wall, my favourite drill is 1) Handstand, 2) look at the toes, 3) slow pike down to stand.
Having the head “buried” is a good mistake, for 99% of the gymnasts I coach.
Advanced kids start on Floor Bar. Best practice is to dedicate time to this station every workout.
Gymnastics Adventure, Regina
Leave a comment if you are a wall handstand fanatic.
monkey swings …
March 13th, 2012 — bars, Gymnastics, horizontal bar, humour
What’s the value of this SWING combination to dismount?
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Thanks Kayleigh.
Hambüchen 7-Tkatchev series
March 13th, 2012 — bars, Gymnastics, horizontal bar
Demo at the Konami Sportsclub, Japan.
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That’s the most Tkachev releases in series I’ve seen. Sharipov did 5 in a row, as I recall, at a demo in Australia.
Former Olympian Chainey Umphrey once did 10 in a row, his brother Eddie recalls. No video, though.
Nor is there video of when Chainey caught Tkachev front.
Eddie’s coach, who once coached Yang Wei, said only two things ever impressed him: Sherbo on floor & Chainey’s Tkatchevs.
(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)
John Orozco – Cassina
March 12th, 2012 — Gymnastics, horizontal bar
Orozco – Liukin to mixed grip
March 10th, 2012 — Gymnastics, horizontal bar
introduce Kovacs
March 10th, 2012 — bars, Gymnastics, horizontal bar, Trampoline
Danell Leyva – Horizontal Bar
March 7th, 2012 — Gymnastics, horizontal bar, Olympics
Good routine. Brilliant fun watching Danell’s coach, Yin Alvarez, in the background.
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Bar – Healy progressions
March 7th, 2012 — bars, Gymnastics, horizontal bar
The best video tutorial I’ve seen yet on this skill. By Nick Blanton.
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We’ve typically mainly done mini-tramp bounce to handstand on a low Bar, into Healy. Nick’s sequence is better.
