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I always think of 2004 Olympian Jason Gatson as an often injured Ring Man.

But his PBars were incredible. And unique. I’d long forgotten this routine until reminded by Body Rhythm.

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Blythe Lawrence again lists 20 gymnasts — “some already big names, others not as much” — who she’s watching this year.

10 women. 10 men.

One of her picks is VERY artistic.

Click PLAY or watch Jesse Silverstein’s P Bars on YouTube.

Click through to see videos of the others:

Gymnastics Examiner – Twenty to watch in 2010

video preview – “How to beat China”

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This is a video of the 2007 Jr MAG Tirrenia training camp, hosted by the European Union of Gymnastics held in Italy every year. This DVD was produced specifically for the Swiss Gymnatics Federation, and thus has only partial translation in English. Majority of DVD is in German and some French, with very limited english translations. However a lot of the concepts and ideas are understandable even without a translation. …

DVD CONTENT
PHYSICAL PREPARATION – (3min)
POMMEL HORSE- presented by Valeri Belenki (GER)(Former Olympic and World Champion and member of the German coaching staff) (8min)

PARALLEL BARS – Valeri Belenki (GER) (16min)

HIGH BAR – presented by Rudolph Bouché (FRA) (professor of sport and technical framework at the Training Center of Antibes) (12min)

45min total – DVD costs $25

details – The Gym Press – “How to beat China” 2007 Tirrenia Training Camp

If you haven’t checked it lately, there’s a ton of great stuff in The Gym Press Article Archive and Video Archive.

Thanks Valentin Uzunov, editor, one of the most serious students of our game.

Sérgio is an up-and-coming gymnast who’s not got nearly as much press as he deserves.

His Parallel Bar routine has a combination you’ve never seen before.

UPDATE: From Wordsmith:

Yes we have: Tkatchev-Geinger…on high bar. (~_^)

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Thanks Cedrick.

Wang Guanyin edged out team mate Feng Zhe as China underlined their mastery on the parallel bars by completing a 1-2 finish at the world gymnastics championships on Sunday. …

With just two finals left, China had won five gold medals at the O2 Arena which will stage the gymnastics competition in the London 2012 Games.

Universal

full results (PDF)

Wang Guanyin of China in action in the men’s parallel bars final, during the World Gymnastics Championships at the O2 Arena in London, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009.

(AP Photo/Matt Dunham) – ESPN

blantonnick posted an excellent coaching tutorial on the (free membership) wwgym.com forum. Thread is called Undersomersault to Handstand on Parallel Bars.

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The kids are from Notts School of Gymnastics in Nottingham, England. Except for the Chinese athlete, doing the very last Felge / Peach handstand series.

Note that the Chinese gymnast does what I call the “Stalder style Peach”, while all the progressions are for the easier, but less powerful, “Free hip style Peach”.

The difference is the amount of hip flexion / extension used.

Personally I like beginners to start quite straight body. (As in these excellent progressions.) … And later begin drills for the Stalder style. Eventually they’ll find the technique that works best for them.

Thanks Stu Cram for sending us the link.

NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships 2009 hosted by University of Minnesota

Click PLAY or watch the winning routine on all 6 apparatus on YouTube.

(via gymNICEstics and Stick It Media)

From Sean Bryan 2004 at International Gymnastics.

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Cuban gymnast Charlie Tamayo might be the most watched male gymnast on the internet.

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What you might not know is that Charlie often hops over the fence into the gym, tightens up his grips, jumps up to do a FULL ring routine.

You can challenge him to the most outlandishly difficult acrobatic feat you can dream up … and he’ll do it first attempt. And add something more difficulty to the sequence.

More videos like this on the Gibson Athletics SaltoCafe YouTube channel.

Charlie was not allowed to try out for the USA Olympic Team 2008. But he’s still hoping to try out for the 2012 Team.

No doubt he’ll be back coaching this summer at Woodward West Camp in California.

UPDATE === linked by apolytongp:

Click PLAY or watch Tumbling up challenge – Charlie vs Daniel on YouTube.

Who is Daniel Bronnenberg?

UPDATE: Daniel is coaching with Charlie. Thanks Don.

Anyone who can tumble with Tamayo is awesome.

A well edited highlight reel from the 2007 NCAA season.

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Cal Berkeley was my favourite Men’s College team in both 2007 and 2008. It’s obvious to everyone that this team puts a higher priority on style, technique and execution than any other.

That starts with the respected Head Coach Barry Weiner.

Learning handstand on Parallel Bars can be dangerous. Especially falling over on to the bars.

Typically it happens as in this video posted by the gymnast’s Mom.

… Nothing but bruises and damaged pride. Took me a couple of minutes to get my heart started again, but I survived, too. 5 minutes later he tried again, without mishap.

Mom – Chalk Bucket

It does seem most boys crash once or twice before finally learning how to save the handstand by pirouetting out.

We train handstands on the end of the parallel bars, finishing with a handspring. Safety on that skill is our highest priority with beginners. (Boys and girls train swing and press handstand.)

The 2005 World Champion has postponed his previously announced retirement since he qualified for the World Cup Final in Pommels and Horizontal Bar.

We get one last chance to honour one of the best gymnasts of the decade.

original – flickr – hturtdekan

… His exciting gymnastics with its elegant execution, and great resistance to be the most complete gymnasts in the world have become one of the most valued gymnasts on the international scene.

Ana Gulica’s Weblog

Has this extremely difficult skill ever been competed?

Many have trained it into a pit.

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That’s 2004 Olympian from Japan, Daisuke Nakano doing the triple.

I saw it first on Gymnast.com, Smooth Skills #14 – The 5 craziest gymnastics skills ever!. I’ve come to look forward to that regular video series posted every Monday.