Enrique Trabanino who owns Perfection Gymnastics in the Cincinnati area introduces a drill at Region 5 Congress that he calls “Quacks”. He developed this drill after watching the explosive blocking on yurchenkos from the kids at Gym Max in California. After talking to Howie Liang(owner of GymMax), Enrique came up with this drill to help improve the blocking in his gymnasts.
Year: 2011
Gender Equity in Canadian Sport
… researchers at U of T’s Centre for Sport Policy Studies conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date of gender equity in Canada’s interuniversity sport system …
… While men make up only 44 per cent of the university student body, they have 56 per cent of the varsity sport opportunities. The exact opposite is true for women, who make up 56 per cent of students and enjoy 44 per cent of the spots on varsity teams.
The numbers get far worse at the top, where women make up only 19 per cent of head coaches and only 17 per cent of athletic directors. …
Yet Canada has no “Title IX” legislation.
Seems to me that 44-54 is not bad.
But that the old boys club is alive and well in Canadian university hiring.
The study’s authors are tasking Canadian Interuniversity Sport and its four regional counterparts with three challenges:
• to revamp their gender equity policies based on these results;
• to create an immediate 50 per cent target towards proportional female participation; and
• to develop a plan for improving leadership opportunities for women in coaching and senior administration. …
Link to full report via that article.
Reverse discrimination is discrimination, regardless of whether you call it “affirmative action“, or not.
College coach hiring bias should be addressed, but I really don’t know the best way to improve those numbers into the future.
largest surf wave ever filmed (90ft)
… McNamara, 44, found himself on a freak mountain of water 30m high, surfing one of the biggest waves ever ridden, probably the largest in Europe and the biggest recorded on film. …
NZ Herald – Surfing: Once is enough for monster wave rider
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Calgary, Canada – Rec Director needed
At Altadore Gymnastics. Looking for someone GREAT. 🙂
$42,000 / year. Details on RecGymnastics.com
Phan Thi Ha Thanh wins SEA Games
Good news story gets even better.
World bronze vault medalist Phan Thi Ha Thanh took the SEA Games in Jakarta by storm. The 20 year old Vietnamese woman took gold in the All Around competition …
This is another boost for Phan Thi Ha Thanh who booked her place in the London 2012 Olympic Games when she placed third on vault in Tokyo.
Phan Thi Ha Thanh (Vietnam) 53.217
Do Thi Ngan Thuong (Vietnam) 49.700
Lim Heem Wei (Singapore) 49.484read more on Full Twist
In the MAG AA competition, Vietnam earned two more medals:
Rartchawak Kaewpan (Thailand) 87.400
Pham Phuoc Hung (Vietnam) 85.500
Hoang Cuong (Vietnam) 84.550
Who’s coaching in Vietnam? … Good work.
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London 2012 Test Event tickets
… tickets for the London 2012 Test Event will go on sale on Thursday November 17th but British Gymnastics are offering fans the chance to purchase their tickets 48 hour ahead of the official release date. …
details on Full Twist
It’s going to be a great meet!
Artistic, Trampoline and Rhythmic Gymnastics–10-18 January 2012
make Level 6 easier?
JBS kicked off a good discussion thread on Chalk Bucket — Why the huge drop off between 5 and 6?
Many girls in the States never make the transition from Level 5 to Level 6.
Why?
A parent (Sharks3376) suggests:
… three main reasons for girls to never make it to level 6.
The number 1 reason girls either repeated or quit before level 6 was because of BARS. Either it was a complete inability to generate enough swing/strength to do the high casting skills and clear hip or it was fear of the flyaway.
The number 2 reason girls quit (every one of these was middle school age or older) was because of schoolwork issues. Basically not being able to do the level 6 hours and keep their grades high.
The number 3 reason was because of beam fears and every time it was a complete block on the bwo.
Read and comment here.
Perhaps Level 6 Bars and Beam should be slightly easier to keep kids in longer. Ideally we’d have a linear drop-out rate, I would think.
Dropping out due to fear of gymnastics is worst case. Kids should look back at their gymnastics career with fondness, not dread. I was an awful gymnast but have only good memories of those years.
updated NCAA 2012 gymnasts
Gymnastike:
The official early period for signing a National Letter of Intent for Gymnastics started on November 9th and will run through the 16th. It’s an exciting day for athletes around the world to “make it official” with their college of choice. These signings, in addition to another set in the spring, will comprise the incoming class of 2012-2013.
Below is a comprehensive list of the female gymnasts who have signed NLI’s for women’s gymnastics thus far. …
NCAA Women’s Gymnastics NLI Signing Week for the Class of 2012!
That link to videos of many of the new recruits.
Here are the IGI girls in this draft.
Berki Qualified to Olympics
When the list of individual gymnasts qualified to the 2012 Olympics was published by the FIG the inclusion of Krisztian Berki came as a surprise to many. The Hungarian won the gold medal on pommel horse in Tokyo. However, the FIG qualification rules state that all event final medallists are qualified to the Olympics provided their federation does not qualify a full team to the Olympics and they
a. participate in three apparatus (two for WAG) during qualification in Tokyo
b. reach “the limit of 85% of the average score all participants in the best 2 additional apparatus” …
The whole point of this change to Olympic qualifying was to ensure that potential gold medalists like Berki DID qualify. Yet the unnecessary complication of points a. and b. seemed to eliminate him.
… “He has qualified correctly according to the rules. We did the mathematics 100 times, and he just made it barely.“
Those quotes from THE ALL AROUND.
… I’m hoping it’s not the same mathematician who calculated the World Cup AA prize money. 🙂
related – Shergymrag – How to make the World Cup relevant.
Blythe heard that the 4 hosts next year (American Cup, Glasgow World Cup, Stuttgart and Tokyo World Cup) must each come up with 25,000 Euro themselves. That solves the problem, from the FIG point of view.
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