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Rebecca Bross

From the Facebook album: 2010 Canada Cup by Brett MacAulay

Photos by Grace Chiu/GraceClick.

Click PLAY or watch a Trampoline and Tumbling photo montage on YouTube.

Naama Arad, like me, was challenged by this Gymnastics Minute instructional by coaching legend Mas Watanabe.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… My advice to Naama is to consider this an advanced technique. Beginners should perfect long, low backward handspring series first. (Think of a rock skipping across a lake.)

Manjak has gymnasts do many sets of 5 normal ffs every day, for example.

Much, much later you can shape the skill for specific reasons, as Watanable is doing here.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Brett MacAulay linked to this saying, …

I think the first trick is Miller Miller Plus holy cow batman!

Grace Chiu already has her 2010 Canada Cup Trampoline & Tumbling pics online at GraceClick.ca.

Karen Cockburn and Rosannagh MacLennan, both of Toronto, turned the tables on China’s world champions on Friday to win gold in women’s synchro trampoline at the 2010 Canada Cup.

At last year’s world championships in St. Petersburg, Russia, Li Dan and Zhong Xingping edged the Canadian duo for top spot in the event but this time around it was a different story. Cockburn, who has won a medal at the last three Olympic Games, and MacLennan finished with a total score of 132.90, well ahead of the Chinese pair at 129.5. …

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Karen and Rosannagh

… Alex Seifert of Calgary and Emily Smith of Burlington, Ont., captured the men’s and women’s senior tumbling …

Sounds like it was a great event.

coach Denis Vachon

Photos from the Facebook album: 2010 Canada Cup Trampoline & Tumbling competition by Grace Chiu GraceClick

full results on Gymnastics Canada

Another terrific video tutorial from JAO:

A skill as old as the back handspring will have a thousand different drills to help learn it. This video represents a few of my favorites, but it is by no means exhaustive.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Of thousands of good drills like these, for me only 3 are critical:

• trust fall (spotted)
• trust fall bend knees slightly, straighten knees, return to start position (spotted)
• … same as #2, but the gymnast is spotted on a tip over to handstand on some

The trust fall is the most difficult part of the flicflac for beginners.

Beginners, once they can do it on the trampoline, should train downhill to ensure good technique.

Beginners should do long and low backward handsprings until they can do series. At that point coaches can consider advanced techniques … shortening the distance of the second half, for example.

There are 8 more great video tutorials on the JAO YouTube channel.

Competition was June 26-July 2 in Virginia Beach, VA.

Click PLAY or watch Kalon Ludvigson Tumbling on YouTube.

And another pass on YouTube.

Some results and photos were posted by USAG.

Click through to see a HUGE photo (slow loading) of all 1800 competitors at the 2010 Championships.

A fun photo slideshow from the Calgary Gymnastics Centre Trampoline and Tumbling team.

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Team CGC TV on YouTube

Thanks Brett.

Happy Canada Day, July 1st.

I just toured the venue for next year with one of the key organizers, Jim Rand.

As Canada’s largest annual celebration of gymnastics, the Canadian Gymnastics Championships will bring over 900 participants from across the country. …

The Championships will be co-hosted at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre and the CARI Complex – MacLauchlan Arenas, located on the University of Prince Edward Island campus from May 23rd-28th, 2011.

Sport PEI

via Gym Score Depot.

Artistic MAG and WAG. Trampoline Sports: Tramp, Double-mini and Tumbling.

Artistic is hosted in a 21,000 sq ft gymnasium, the same venue used for Nationals 1994. Expect Marshalls to be strictly limiting access to the Floor as space is tight.

click image for PDF original

Trampoline and Tumbling will be happy, I think, in a big hockey arena. Lights will need to be raised for trampoline. The VIP area is in this building.

Awards have a nice space with a modern look.

The judging will be transparent as 3 courts will be made available for officials.

Though Charlottetown has a population of only about 33,000, everyone is confident that Jim and Lea Rand will put together an excellent Nationals.

Hotels will be at a premium, obviously. Book early.

Just got a review copy in the mail. (It will be donated to Keith Russell‘s library at University of Saskatchewan).

Wow. It looks great.

A university quality text book. Glossy, heavy pages. Big, beautiful illustrations by James H. Stephenson, the best in the business.

Check out the Table of Contents.

Instantly I jumped to these two sections:

• Twist Direction for Somersault Skills
• Twist Direction for Round-off

I found, happily, that Dr. G.S. George agrees with what I’ve been teaching for years:

- all somersault twisting should be done in the same direction
- the initial turn of of the round-off should be in the opposite direction

photo of Tseng 2010 - GraceClick.ca

For example, if you put your right hand down first on round-off, you normally will twist all somersaulting skills to the right.

If you put your left hand down first on round-off, it’s normal to twist all somersault skills to the left.

We know this is “most common”. Bill Sands published that conclusion in Technique Magazine (2000) – Twist Direction (PDF)

This is for Artistic gymnasts. It’s more important for male gymnasts to be “normal” than for female. And, yes, you can win the Olympics if you are not normal. But – all things considered – your odds of winning the Olympics improve if your twist direction is normal.

I’ve not seen any scientific data on why this relationship between round-off and twist direction is most common in successful gymnasts.
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Trampoline and Tumbling coaches take a far more sophisticated approach to this issue.

Brett MacAulay at Calgary Gymnastics Centre would do many tests before deciding what direction a new trampolinist would twist somersaults.

He’d do a separate battery of tests to determine what hand to put down first on round-off. The two are not necessarily related, despite what we see as “normal” in Artistic gymnasts.
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Order Championship Gymnastics from the official website – Winning Gymnastics. Or phone 888-796-5229. ($79)

Or catch Dr. George at one of his seminars this summer.

related post – ROUND-OFF – problematic tumbling skill

Don’t watch this video for technique. These guys were out for one-upmanship with the camera rolling.

Texans messin’ in Houston.

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The blonde nutcase is Brenden McAleavey.

Here’s his youtube channel – mcadog7

Linked by Fabian Hambuechen via Andreu Vivó on Facebook.

If last year you told me I would be linking to notorious coach Al Fong all the time, I’d have called you crazy.

But I’m really enjoying his frequent blog posts.

For example, on this post – Versatile Straps – Al recommends “tumbling handcuffs”, bar safety straps used on a tumbling trampoline.

Click PLAY or watch the drill on YouTube.

This works great for beginners. Later we’re going to want the kids to use shoulder flexion / extension to add power.

In extreme drills, coaches slide the strap down to the neck. This “locks” the arms in an extended position, but can be scary for beginners. Use with caution. I still recall a young gymnast at a training camp freaking out trying that for the first time. (… Come to think of it, I’m going back to his gym this Summer, surprised they’re inviting me back.)

related – Open Shoulder Trainer (invented by coach Peter Soul)

details – TumblTrak $24.95