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?

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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)

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

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Couch Gymnast #6

What are the first steps?

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

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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.

… 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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… 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

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.

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.