the next Urzica

Marius Urzică … an Olympic champion, a three-time world champion and a three-time European champion on pommel horse. He competed at three Olympic games, medaling each time …

Today he’s a coach in Qatar.

Click PLAY or watch his son having fun on YouTube.

2015 Worlds Glasgow – legacy

The best World Championships in history, I’d say.

The 2015 World Gymnastics Championships have caused a dramatic increase in the sport’s participation levels in host city Glasgow, it has been claimed.

… attendances for its gymnastics pathway programmes have risen from 75,251 in 2014-15 to 86,206 in 2015-16 – a 15 per cent increase.

Over the same period, attendances at the city’s seven gymnastics clubs are said to have increased from 14,321 to 18,303 – up 28 per cent. …

The 2015 World Gymnastics Championships, which was named Sporting Event of the Year at The Sunday Mail and sportscotland Scottish Sports Awards, was one of the largest single-sport events ever to be hosted in the United Kingdom with a record 594 gymnasts from 87 nations taking part.

Attendances of close to 80,000 watched the action at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro Arena across 10 days of competition …

Inside the Games

Glasgow

free standing Gymnastics equipment

Talking to Dave Arnold at the Western Canadian Championships, he still prefers roof shingles over any other kind of free weights.

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backward handspring drill

Ideal for improving the skill.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Of course it works for Flyspring, as well, from a jump backwards. Eventually you can connect Flyspring to backward handspring in series.

developing early pirouettes

The biggest problem with pirouettes is finishing the turn too late.

Click PLAY or watch a Gymnastics Progressions teaser on Facebook.

Thanks Mary.

Summer Gymnastics Camp Idaho

I’ll be there. Sign up soon if you are going as it is near certain to sell out in the Olympic year.

Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho near Spokane.

HPTC

hptcamp.com

gymnasts from Nunavut

Not to be confused with Nunavik, a region in northern Quebec, or Nunatsiavut, an autonomous Inuit region in northern Newfoundland and Labrador. …
Nunavut  is the newest, largest, northernmost, and least populous territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 …
Meet some gymnasts from Rankin Inlet. 🙂