2011 – Page 25 – Gymnastics Coaching.com

50m back handspring race

That’s Takayuki Yamazaki in 1996.

There must be much faster Power Tumblers. 🙂

(via Nancy-Kate Harris Wilson on Facebook)

hanging with Vika

Sabrina Gill and Stefanie Merkle run in to Anastasia Grishina and Viktoria Komova on the streets of Marseille!!

Originally posted by Stefanie’s coach, I saw it on Oakville Gymnastics Club Women’s Blog.

T&T Worlds updates

The best links are the FIG site page and FIG video page.

FIG Official — Qualifications, Tumbling Men — YANG Song (CHN), 2 times world silver medalist (2009, 2010). He dreams of winning gold this year. Best score of the qualifications : 77.600 (36.200 + 41.400). Difficulty score of the second routine : 13.200 !

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

World Tumbling / DMT Championships

Double Mini-tramp & Tumbling prelims are complete.

Results. (follow the links to find the PDFs)

Congrats to BOYCHUK Corissa (CAN) and ZOONEKYND Bianca (RSA) who tied for 1st in the women’s DOUBLE MINI-TRAMPOLINE qualifications.

more photos by Grace Chiu on Facebook

DONG Dong – 5 triffus

FIG Official – Qualifications, Individual Trampoline – DONG Dong is the King of the qualifications : 111.490 (50.005 + 61.485). The world champion 2010 is the favorite for a new world title.

The men’s leader after prelims at World Championships.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks MissEducated.

7yr-old Giuliano Iron Cross

Insanely strong wonder tot Giuliano Stroe in Romania continues to beast up.

Click the image below or watch it on YouTube.

Yep. That Cross was WAY LOW. … Cheater. 🙂

(via – All Things Gym)

His wimpy little brother Claudio is only doing Straddle L Sit 1 Arm Press series. 🙂

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Coach Sommer of GymnasticBodies.com responds:

… … “The iron cross is quite damaging for physically immature prepubescent athletes to train seriously.

Allan Bower’s younger brother Alex was also capable of holding an iron cross at 8 years old. However he was only allowed to “play” with it occasionally. Yes, he was talented enough that he could have competed both an iron cross and a maltese, however this short term glory would have been at the expense of the rest of his career.

Premature exposure to iron cross training will significantly damage growth plates in the elbow and greatly decrease the mobility of the ligaments in the shoulder girdle. Especially problematic here is that the damage to the elbow will often not manifest itself as pain until the athlete begins their adolescent growth spurt. The shoulder girdle mobility problem will also be further exacerbated during the athlete’s pubescent growth spurt resulting in a substantial loss of ROM.

The solution? While prepubescent, the athlete should focus on flexibility, mastering the basic FBEs (fundamental bodyweight exercises) and then increasing strength endurance. In terms of ring specific strength, the primary focus should be on ring handstands, lock arm press handstands and planche development until the athlete has either completed puberty or is approximately 16 years old.” …

That’s from a thread on the Gymnastic Bodies forum.

This is a father pushing kids harder for strength than I’ve ever seen before. Seems inevitable that something will go wrong, sooner or later.

unique Netherlands gym

An architectural challenge:

… The brief for the sports hall would not allow for windows on the sides of the buildings for reasons of privacy, safety and performance for the athletes. But a completely windowless gym would be dark and unpleasant, so NL Architects came up with a creative solution to filter natural daylight into the space. …