Entries Tagged 'vault' ↓

Over the past few years, my favourite videos have been those put together by John Geddert, coach of Jordyn Wieber and dozens of excellent athletes.

His Yurchenko DVD is still the best single resource out there.

Previously you had to email John … or see him at an event … to buy them. Those days are over.

Brilliantly, John’s using Facebook to promote and distribute.

If you are a member of Facebook, click through to his DVDs page.

They are $30ea or 4 for $100. (Ask your club to buy them for the staff.)

He will have a website, as well. But it’s not up and running, as yet.

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NOTICE: Starting Oct. 1st this site is going to start linking directly to Facebook pages. If you are not a member, that’s going to be frustrating.

But even Dave Adlard and Miguel Costante have joined FB. How many more coach holdouts could there be?

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)

Stacey sends a link to one of the WAG compulsory routines in Great Britain.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I like this drill for fun. But the “scoop to candle” is the essential.

The most recent issue is online free from Brigid McCarthy.

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Couch Gymnast #6

Amy, inspired perhaps by gymmako, is starting Yurchenko. At adult gym.

What are the first steps?

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Leave a comment if you’ve additional drills for her.

The most important phases of the Yurchenko vault are the sprint, hurdle, round-off, take-off, and preflight. The rest is EASY.

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That’s ‘E” from Go For It Gymnastics in Las Vegas. He reminded us of a young Kyle Shewfelt. … Or a young Casey Sandy.

E was demonstrator for a clinic with the 2004 Olympic champion on Floor, Kyle Shewfelt.

Kyle first did the “Shewfelt” vault (Yurchenko 2 1/2) at about age-16.

Al Fong:

… We have drills using panel mats as vaulting boards because sometimes our athletes don’t put 100% effort into their punches off the vault board. How do we know if they do or not? One way to find out. We take the vault board away and have them vault without it. It really makes them work.

Then put the board back in and watch them punch off the board to the ceiling. …

Who needs a board anyway!

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McKayla Maroney

… clean, powerful, and technically precise – one of the most effortless appearing Amanars in the world. She scored a huge 9.6 E-score and 16.1 final score …

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That comes from Andy Thornton’s American Gymnast blog – Women’s Top Five Routines…Visa Championships

The biggest surprise of the morning was that these two gymnasts finished GOLD and SILVER on Vault in a competition that has the word “Olympics” on top of the banner.

Vault: 1. Ganbat (MGL) 2. Arican (TUR) 3. Abad (ESP)

… Erdenebold Ganbat took gold in the vault to give Mongolia its most successful result in history. With a handspring double front and a double-twisting Tsukahara, Ganbat edged Turkey’s Ferhat Arican (handspring full to piked front, Tsukahara 2 1/2), 15.650-15.662. Top qualifier Nestor Abad (Spain) won the bronze (15.450). …

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Erdennbold Ganbat of Mongolia:

And here’s Ferhat Arican of Turkey.

How fantastic for those up-and-coming gymnasts, their coaches, their federations.

The absurdly difficult open-ended F.I.G. rules have not slowed the progress of international development on the Men’s side.

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)

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.

UPDATE: detailed report from The All Around – Komova Remains Golden in Singapore

More Komova.

Women’s
Vault: 1. Komova (RUS) 2. Vargas (ESP); 3. Ferlito (ITA)
Bars: 1. Komova (RUS) 2. Tan (CHN) 3. Adlerteg (SWE)

Gymnicetic WAG LIVE blog and full results.

Note: there are some different rules in this meet. These scores cannot be directly compared with F.I.G.

Men’s
FX: 1. Vila Sarria (CUB) 2. Stepko (UKR) 3. Zhu (CHN)
Pommel Horse: 1. Stepko 2. Oldham 3. Kazachkov
Rings: 1. Muntean (ROU) 2. Kamoto (JPN) 3. Abad (ESP)

Going for Gold has some coverage on both WAG and MAG finals:

… Men’s Floor: Dark Horse Ernesto Vila Sarria of Cuba took the Gold (score 14.575) ahead of a mistake ridden men’s field. …

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

UCLA’s Vanessa Zamarripa qualified for the U.S. National Team.

But Marcus in the comments informs that she’s decided not to try for World’s 2010, instead focusing on the NCAA. I see that confirmed on College Gymnastics Board.

I’d have loved to have seen that Cheng vault (VIDEO) on the international stage.

This is the same decision faced by Canada’s Kristina Vaculik. So far Kristina’s on the Canadian list for World’s. I assume that means she won’t be reporting at Stanford until January.

Who else is deferring until January? Or later? … Mattie Larson, …

She won prelims with these perhaps slightly inflated scores:

UB : 15.55
BB : 15.25
FX : 14.55
VT : 15.7

Click PLAY or watch her Amanar on YouTube.

Somewhat scary landing. But it’s amazing such a skinny kid can do this.

Click through to Aunt Joyce to watch her other apparatus.

Update: becca reminds us that they are using the modified JUNIOR F.I.G. code at this meet. It reduced her potential start value AA.