2011 – Page 180 – Gymnastics Coaching.com

precomp bars – Colorado Aerials

Brittney posted this …

Preteam girls doing level 5 bar routines, giant drills, front giant drills, and stalder drills. Most of these girls were ages 6-8 at the time (Spring 2010). …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I particularly like the forward giant drills at a young age and stage. Very safe. Super preparation for the future.

Thanks for the link, Jacob.

L’International Gymnix begins

This is the 20th annual. Congratulations.

L’International Gymnix kicks off March 10 in Montreal and features Canadians Madeline Gardiner, Coralie Leblond-Chartrand, Christine Lee, Sabrina Gill, Victoria Moors, Vivi Babalis, and Brianna Clark and International guests Alina Martynova (RUS), Jessica Gil Ortiz (COL), Georgia Wheeler (AUS), Venus Romaeo (GBR), Jessica Hogg (GBR), Asuka Teramoto (JPN), Julie Croket (BEL), and Brianna DeJardin (BEL).

Also Kristin Klarenbach.

Gymn.ca

Grace Chiu is posting some pics on Facebook.

Alexandra Township Trampoline, South Africa

Canadian trampoline and tumbling athletes are in South Africa for competition.

Before the meet, they bused out to a rural gym.

Jamie Atkin:

… Up until recently they had virtually no equipment. The trampoline you see below is around the size of a single bed and those are blankets wrapped around the springs for padding. They also had a mini-tramp.

Not long ago the club was gifted with two brand new Eurotramp Trampolines with end-decks and mats as well as a brand new DMT and landing area. This is beautiful equipment and these coaches and kids sure love it all! …

… we took a 5 minute “Coke Break”. They have been sponsored by Coke and they proceeded to pass around 600 ml bottles of Coke to everyone and we posed for a photo before the kids downed it all. …

read more on the Airdrie Edge Travel Blog

Thanks Brett.

fight breaks out at gymnastics

University of Minnesota.

Goldy Gopher apparently never saw it coming — a sucker punch smack in the nose above his heartwarming bucktoothed grin.

An annoyed fan — a University of St. Thomas math professor and a devoted University of Minnesota booster — socked the fuzzy-suited mascot after tiring of his antics during a men’s gymnastics meet Saturday night.

The mascot-mauling left the professor red-faced, regretful and banned from the University of Minnesota’s Sports Pavilion and Williams Arena for a year …

Star Tribune

What a shame.

Men’s gymnastics needs every fan they can get. 🙂

FIG unhappy with Gymnova tramps

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has brought a disciplinary suit against Gymnova, a Marseille (FRA) based company specialising in the design, manufacturing and distribution of gymnastic apparatus.

The incident occurred at the Trampoline World Championships in Metz (FRA) in November 2010, when as the official supplier, Gymnova is accused to have delivered trampolines of a poor quality. …

FIG

Merde.

Gymnova is the official equipment supplier for the 2012 Olympics.

(via Gymnastics Examiner)

gymnasts and growth plate damage

Gymnasts are vulnerable, especially male gymnasts, especially during the phase of “peak growth velocity”.

During that phase coaches are advised to reduce hard tumbling and vaulting. Land on soft surfaces. And be very cautious when the athlete reports pain near growth plates.

Certainly there is a great deal of individual variation in growth. Many gymnasts are “late maturers”.

Those images are taken from an excellent report by Istvan Balyi & Richard Way, The Role of Monitoring Growth in Long-Term Athlete Development November 20 2009 (PDF)

Some conclusions:

Monitoring growth before, during and after the adolescent growth spurt is very important for coaches to be able to create an individualized plan to optimize athletes’ development.

• Growth measurements are needed to monitor growth.

• Plotting growth will help to identify the onset of the growth spurt

• Before the onset of the growth spurt standing height should be measured on every birthday, or at the beginning of the annual training cycle in clubs.

Most coaches are not measuring growth velocity in 2011. … They should be.