Month: March 2013

Valentin linked to this training video of Thomas Buhail.

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Click PLAY or watch her 2003 Floor on YouTube.

As a Senior, she competed Amanar with the worst form I can recall. How did her Yurchenko look in 2005?

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See many more of her age group routines on WOGymnastike.

Coach / Mom decorating her daughter’s room.

via Victoria’s Creative-Side on Facebook

Mary Lee Tracy

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All good drills for beginners.

Be sure to train “gainer” back tucks, too.

When the gainer is consistent on Floor. You’re ready to start on low Beam.

Beautiful Gymnastics has commentary on these two strong routines at Doha.

Click PLAY or watch Diana on YouTube. 14.625 (1st)

Click PLAY or watch Larisa on YouTube.

That’s the new Antwerp Apollo Floor to be used by Janssen Fritsen at Worlds 2013, Belgium.

Purports to be more durable, easier to transport.

… in climates where it is hot and humid, it will stay in the same condition,” said Bart Prinssen, the Export manager. …

details on Doha Gym

Click PLAY or watch Larisa’s Doha routine on YouTube.

Two fulls.

Larisa IORDACHE: 15.500
D = 6.7
E = 8.800

(via Gymcastic on Facebook)

Compare with Anastasia’s Cottbus routine.

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At the Pro Gymnastics Challenge, May 10-11, 2013 at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa.

Nastia & Blaine Wilson will be the honorary coaches of Team USA:

Jonathan Horton, Jacob Dalton, Stephen Legendre, Jana Bieger, Kat Ding and others …

Svetlana Boguinskaia will coach The World:

Sam Oldham, Marcel Nguyen, Oksana Chusovitina, Petrix & Jade Barbosa, Daniele & Diego Hypolito, Anna Pavlova and others …

It’s a new format this year. A “skill v skill” challenge with men competing against women for points and prize money.

Looks like FUN.

details

Lu Shanzhen, long time women’s coach, is being moved to head the Chinese Rhythmic and Trampoline teams.

Details and comment thread on Blossom. They hope Xiong Jingbing will take over WAG.

Tramp Pundit questions why the Chinese Trampoline coach would be moved. That’s been a fantastically successful program.

… Alabama took a (charter) plane to three regular season meets this year – Missouri, Florida and Arkansas – and bussed to meets at LSU and Georgia. It also flew to three meets in 2012. There are University regulations that dictate when teams are allowed to fly depending on how far away a destination is. But flying is always the preferred method.

The average cost of a charter flight during the 2012 season was $22,743 compared to $2,004 for each bus trip – a difference of more than $20,000 …

This year, the team flew back immediately following its meet in LSU on March 8 and went straight to the cold tubs, even though it was three in the morning. But being able to do rehab on the night of the meet gave the gymnasts an extra day to recover on Saturday before getting back to practice Sunday.

“You have a recovery day the next day. It’s not that you’re spending all day traveling to get home,” Patterson said. “Not many teams come back and then at three in the morning get in the cold tubs like we did when we got back from LSU.”

It also helps the gymnasts in the classroom. Patterson said the plane usually leaves at 3 p.m. on Thursday before a Friday meet, which means the athletes don’t have to miss any class.

… parties include four coaches and three staff members in addition to the gymnasts. They use 15-16 hotel rooms, which totalled an average of $2,223 last season. The travel party also spent an average of $2,677 on meals and per diems, and $1,666 for a bus to carry the team around once it lands. That brings the total cost of a trip to an average of almost $30,000.

read more on Tide Sports

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