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Linked by Greg from Oakville Gymnastics.

Mainstream media love to do these stories. This one is more balanced than usual.

Mail Online:

It’s enough to make any parents grimace as these Chinese children are contorted into the most uncomfortable positions.

Aged between four and seven, the young gymnasts are put through a rigorous stretching routine by their coaches during a training session. …

Read more: Hang in there: How children as young as four are stretched in training to be China’s future gymnasts

I was happy to see coaches doing handstand on a floor bar, rather than flat-handed. This will help prevent overuse injury to the wrists later in the career.

Thanks Jeni.

I’ve only seen two girls ever who can bend over and touch their elbows to the Floor.

How about this?

Click PLAY or watch this little girl from Adrenaline Gymnastics, Denver, on YouTube.

Wow.

Natelle Tulk sends us a link to this interesting fitness product.

One review:

… Bodyweight exercises that are challenging for conditioned trainers yet simple for beginners to learn and execute.

Range of motion and dynamics of the system allow you to perform unique, multi–planar exercises with varying resistance, something you can’t do on any other exercise machine.

Small size and light weight of the TRX allows for easy transport and storage – it’s a great option for people who travel and those who have limited workout space in their home.

The TRX weighs less than two pounds and can easily be brought on a business trip or put in a drawer while not in use. You can use the gym almost anywhere: attach it to a door in your house, hang it from a weight rack, mount it to a beam in the garage or take it outside and use it at the local playground or park. …

Sounds good. Very similar to Rings training.

The cost is far too high, however → $189.95.

You do get a kit with Training DVD and 35 page workout guide. But any gymnastics coach could rig up a similar apparatus for less than $20.

official web page – TRX® Suspension Training

American Olympic Coach Kevin Mazeika promotes Gym in a Bag:

Click PLAY or watch the Rockers on YouTube.

There are many more tutorials on the gyminabagboy YouTube channel.

… Pound for Pound the most effective complete body workout equipment ever!!! Less then 5 lbs. more than 500 exercises …

Order at thegyminabag.com . $59.95 for the XBR Rockers, $99.95 for the full Gym in a Bag/

DGS Gym Supply sells them too.

Click through to watch a video overview of ALL the things you can do with the full kit.

Thanks Reiko from GymSmarts coaching videos for the tip.

via TKO

Extreme feat of strength.

OFFICIAL World Muscle-Up record on 4th Jan 2010. All the necessarry officials witnessed it, and a small crowd, the video was officially evaluated & APPROVED by Guinness on 13 March 2010. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube

marcusbondi.com

Note: I tried to check on this record on the Guinness site. No results for the search “Marcus Bondi”. Leave a comment if you can verify. It’s more likely under the name of the athlete.

Here is the Guinness link:

The most consecutive muscle ups performed is 25 by Jarryd Rubinstein (Australia) at Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 4 January 2010.

Blokes. Get out and beat that record. … No “kippiing”.

Is the record 25 or 26?

From Alison Arnold via email:

… FREE sample of our LIVE ONLINE coaches seminar with Tammy Biggs teaching “Training For Speed and Cardio” on Tuesday, July 13th at 6pm PST/9pm EST.

To get a personal invite for yourself, all you need to do is email andrea@docaliarnold.com

If you like that FREE session, consider registering for the next Session on USAproject2012.com

by site editor Rick McCharles

Here I am promoting the 2 best new gymnastics coaching manuals published in many years.

• Building the Gymnastic Body by Christopher Sommer

• Championship Gymnastics by Gerald S. George, Ph.D.

I can wholeheartedly endorse both.

Formerly I said that Artistic gymnasts were the fittest female athletes.

No more. In 2010 the top CrossFit women are more “fit” than the best Artistic girls.

That’s quite new.

CrossFit is a strength and conditioning fitness methodology that promotes broad and general overall physical fitness. CrossFit combines weightlifting, sprinting, and gymnastics. CrossFit says that proficiency is required in each of ten fitness domains: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, balance, coordination, and accuracy. …

Gymnastics coach and judge Jeff MacRae took me to a regular CrossFit workout at his gym in Charlottetown, PEI.

Conveniently, CrossFit PEI is located right beside his gymnastics club.

Jeff’s only recently taken up the sport yet qualified to National Championships for the first time in 2010. (Inconveniently Crossfit Nationals conflicted with Artistic Gymnastics Nationals.)

Jeff is certified as a “gymnastics expert” in Crossfit. Indeed he’s scheduled to teach several “gymnastics” workshops across Atlantic Canada.

Crossfit is booming. If you’ve not yet checked it out yourself, stop by your local club. My preconceptions that it would be dangerous, participants using bad technique, turned out to be unfounded. Jeff cannot recall a serious injury at his program over the past 2yrs.

Inspiring.

It’s great to see Nakayama again, my boyhood hero.

A couple of the choices are surprising. Dityatin and Bilozerchev would be the first to tell you that Ring strength was their greatest weakness.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (10min)

(via the Gymnastic Bodies blog – Lords of the Rings)

… Scott Burns from California Sports Centers shows how to develop strength for the Azarian on rings.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Watch more gymnastic training videos on TheGymnastic Minute Channel on YouTube. Support the Gymnastics Minute free videos by . buying GymSmarts DVDs

One of the few men to have ever completed a Ninja Warrior (Sasuke) obstacle course, here’s a highlights video of #2, Makoto Nagano, the astonishing Japanese fisherman who’s bested dozens of gymnasts and other strong men.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I saw this video linked from the excellent GymnasticBodies.com blog:

… There are five stages to the Sasuke challenge, each of which must be successfully completed in order to move on. In my opinion, the final stage is particularly challenging; a 50′ chimney climb followed immediately by a 30′ rope climb – BOTH OF WHICH MUST BE COMPLETED WITHIN 60 SECONDS! …

Coach Sommer – Makoto Nagano Montage

Coach Sommer is a strength guru, author of the Building the Gymnastic Body manual and videos.

If you impress him, you’re strong.

This is GIULIANO STROE from Romania, born 18/06/2004.

at age-5

Embedding this video is disabled. Watch it on YouTube.

Kelly Manjak sends us the link.

More photos of Giullinao. His “schools” listed are … Gymnastics and Weights.

Scary? … He’s got a younger brother training with him.