… Team Russia. Gymnastike takes you inside their training session in Tokyo, just 24 hours before the 2011 World Championships Team Final where the finished 2nd behind Team USA. …
Gymnasts in this video: Viktoria Komova, Tatiana Nabieva, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Yulia Inshina, Yulia Belokobylskaya, and team alterante Alyona Polyan. Head coach is Alexander Alexandrov.
Monique credits then National Coach Ju Ping Tien for her success. And for changing forever the sport in Australia.
1991 World Championships in Indianapolis, the Australian women finished 6th as a team, the biggest “shocker” of the competition (aside from PakKim from North Korea winning Bars).
Many were highly impressed, including me. In fact, in 1993 I made a “research” trip to Australia to see how a “free” nation with a small population could be so successful. (I followed in the footsteps of coach Dana Brass who had done a similar tour the year prior.)
Ten days I spent at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, mightily impressed. However, over that period I was very much unimpressed with Ju Ping who seemed to coach inconsistently and in erratic ways. She’d storm into the gym, yell at a few kids and coaches, then storm out. It was a marked contrast to the Men’s Head Coach at the time, Warwick Forbes, calm, organized and focused.
I could be wrong about Ju Ping Tien. Many, many have told me that she did wonderful things during her era.
Don’t spend too much time perfecting Cast to horizontal for some age group competition. Do the minimum needed, and work towards the future. Bars is still the weakest apparatus in most gyms.
With Zamarripa back, I’m not surprised to see the Bruins atop the list. They should be a much prettier team too with Mattie Larson and Cassie Whitcomb coming in.
Stanford looks too low. But it’s nice to see so many coaches with confidence in Boise. See commentary on College Gym Fans.
Enrique Trabanino who owns Perfection Gymnastics in the Cincinnati area shares a drill to help perfect the body shape and technique of the front layout and front twisting. …
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