Year: 2016

Life Stories – Liang Chow

An excellent interview with the likeable coach from Iowa. He loves his new country.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via papaliukin)

parenting a young athlete

Rachel Doherty posted an excellent article. It includes some tough facts. And this interesting graphic.

factors

1. Having an athlete is expensive

2. Sport is a selfish beast

5. There are far more hard days than podium moments

9. It has to be their dream, not yours

10 things I’ve learned about parenting a young athlete

Click through to read the rest.

new website for TumblTrak

My friends have been working hard and long on the latest update. It’s friendlier. Navigation easier.

Under the hood the process of getting a quote with shipping, duties, taxes included is streamlined.

If you’re shopping start on the home page.

TumblTrak

For training tips it’s tumbltrak.com/training. Or jump directly to their rapidly expanding YouTube playlists.

Thanks James.

Moy to forward salto?

Pham Phuoc Hung

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Do that within the P Bars to support?

Update. It’s already Element III.10 – D in the Code, but has yet to be named.

(via papaliukin)

Men’s FX – 10.0 execution score

There are male gymnasts with extremely good execution on Floor.

For example, this young Ukrainian who we think was given a perfect E-score.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

via Gymternet Clan

Aspire Training Camp, Vancouver

I dropped in for a day to observe the 6th in a series of Canadian Training Camps led by coaching legend Alex Bard.

Aspire gymnasts aspire to (eventually) make National Team. Canada already has lists for 2020, 2024 and even 2028.

Of course gymnasts this young can move back and forth between J.O. and the elite stream.

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Thanks to host Omega Gymnastics.

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Apparatus leaders included Michelle Arsenault, Barb Fraser, Julia Spivak, Laurie Henderson and Vladimir Lashin.

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Laurie

Kim Bui – 14.800 Bars

2012 Olympian Kim Bui, the 27-year-old who missed nearly all of 2015 due to injury, will make her competitive turn at Bundesliga this weekend, where she hopes to impress enough for a spot on the country’s European Championships team. …

Gymternet

How did that go for Kim?

55.800 AA. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via theallaround)

Spain v Romania friendly

SENIOR
1. Ana Perez ESP 56.55
2. Claudia Colom ESP 55.75
3. Maria Holbura ROM 54.6

ESP 166.65
ROM 164.05

full results

Gymmapstics was there posting a detailed report, happy that Cintia Rodriguez (54.05) is back from injury.

Romania did win the Junior friendly. They have some talented girls coming up. Neither team qualified for Rio so they’ll already be putting the priority on Tokyo 2020.