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A supplement to his Gym Press Journal, Valentin Uzunov recently launched a new blog called simply Coaching Methods, reflections on coaching gymnastics.

Early posts:

• How effective is your pre-team program?

• Coaching the Mental Game

• Formula to Success

• Effective communication for effective results

home page – Coaching Methods

I’m subscribed. Thanks Valentin!

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London 2012™ – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games

Key Features:

Go for Gold

Compete in over 45 events* including all the blue ribbon events plus some all-new events to Olympic videogames offering the ultimate depth and variety. *Includes Motion Control and Party Play events.

More ways to play
Compete in a wide range of challenges and game modes including Olympic Games, Events Mode, Online Mode and Party Play.

Feel the Burn
For the first time ever in an Olympic Games video game, play using Motion Control with a dozen different events enabled for PlayStation®Move and Kinect™ for Xbox 360®

Compete for Global Glory
Take the competition online with leader boards tracking personal medal counts, and earn National Pride points with each medal you win for your country – keep playing and improve your nations standing! …

details

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Here’s the Olympics venues flythrough. (VIDEO)

See how that game was created using Autodesk. (VIDEO)

via @gymnewstics

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USA Gymnastics has launched a new FAN site called USA Gymnast.

Quite slick. Featuring these main subcategories:

Home
News
Athletes
Photos
Video
Social Wall

Of those, Social Wall is the coolest. Choose between athlete tweets, Facebook status updates, photos and more.

USAgymnast.com

Sadly, there’s no RSS feed aside from Comments. And who wants to read online comments?

Don’t bother clicking on any RSS icons. You’ll be wasting your time. Web site designers who pretend to embrace social media without actually providing an RSS feed are conflicted, at best. Delusional, at worst.

USAG still owns Gymnast.com, as well. And is still not doing anything with that domain name. Somebody should make them an offer to buy it. $100,000+, I’d expect.

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Want to keep the little ones out of your foam pit?

Coming SOON from Norberts:

(via Rec Gymnastics)

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Dvora Meyers:

… I’ve self-published a short book of personal essays called Heresy on the High Beam: Confessions of an Unbalanced Jewess on Amazon for Kindle. (But you don’t have to own a Kindle to read it. I don’t have one yet. Simple download the free Kindle Cloud Reader App).

It’s a classic love story: Girl meets balance beam. Girl trades long skirts for leotards. The rest, as Hillel once wisely said, is commentary.

Unorthodox Gymnastics – Heresy on the High Beam

Get it from Amazon (78 pages) $2.99

It’s not called Jewnastics. Yet.

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This has potential.

A vibrating suit could be the key to ensuring Britain’s athletes perform with inch-perfect precision at this summer’s Olympics.

… tiny sensors attached to the wearer’s skin trigger motors to tell them when they move in the correct way.

A computer tracks the user’s movements in real time and the results can be monitored by a coach as Olympic hopefuls practice. …

British Olympic rhythmic gymnast Mimi Cesar, 17, is using the technology to polish her routines.

… ‘The suit will be especially useful in group gymnastics because you get points for synchronisation and how you all look together so it will help gymnasts do the routines exactly the same.

‘If all five of them wore the suits they would know exactly where to place their back or body …

Read more on the Daily Mail – Giving Olympic athletes a buzz: New electric training suit vibrates to tell medal hopefuls when they have perfected a routine

(via @gymnewstics)

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Finally. A Gymnastics Congress in my own backyard, Calgary, Canada.

Christophe Lambert, Alixa Sutton, Tony Retrosi, Beth Gardner, Frank Sahlein, Steve Greeley and Dave Ross.

Put the dates on your calendar, Oct. 11-14, 2012. I guarantee this will be an excellent event. Details.

Thanks Brett.

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At the recent Al Fong clinic I finally got to meet Steve Glickley. He runs the Kansas City Coed Classic: January 25-27th, 2013.

1200 athletes competing for USAG and AAU.

Phone: 913.438.4444 Email: meetinfo (a) emeraldcitygym.com

Steve also sells and rents gymnastics equipment via The Athletic Equipment Source.

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The brochure for our annual gymnastics camp has just been posted. Boys and girls.

July 22-26th, 2012.

Check HPTCamp.com
to see photos, videos and details from previous years.

Cost $450-$600 depending on accommodation, food and extra activities.

Contact Dave Adlard with any questions.

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I’ve been subscribed to TumblingDrills.com.

That’s the project of Danish coach Peter Wraae Marino.

This site is created to help coaches, gymnasts and parents to better understand what drills and skills gymnasts should work on and how to progress …

Peter’s steadily been adding new drills and shapes, now totaling over 100.

Here’s a sample.

All content is now available to browse for free. Registration no longer required.

Check it out – tumblingdrills.com

If you wanted to use any of Peter’s illustrations, contact him first via the site. He’s looking for suggestions / corrections on each drill too.

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I arranged for Chris and James from Tumbl Trak to visit Oakville Gymnastics in Toronto.

They did interviews on the theme of “positive coaching” with coaches Kelly & Sue Manjak, and Tumbling / Acrobatic Gymnastics Head Coach Don Holmes.

Don

They also interviewed (potential) Olympians Peng Peng Lee, Jessica Savona and Mikaela Gerber. The Oakville girls are going for it. They’ll need everything they’ve got to qualify for the Canadian Team to London. No playing safe. Peng showed major upgrades on all 4 apparatus since Pacific Rim.

Tumbl Trak brought in some equipment for testing, including these “Fitness Wheels“, not yet available for sale.

Jordyn Pedersen

Thanks Kelly, Sue, Lorne, Don, Greg and everyone else at the club for making us feel so welcome.

Tumbl Trak will be posting video from our visit. I’ll link from here once that’s available.

More photos.

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