The tap on a giant is like a soccer kick. You can gain power by bending your knees through the bottom.
… Unfortunately the judges may deduct for bent knees if you do. Jason recommends some drills.
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Year: 2016
Leyva – Kolman gif
working out with a toddler
No excuses, Mom. 🙂
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point-of-view H Bar
With the great former Stanford gymnast Rico Andrade. A new perspective.
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related – Rico’s Double Twisting Kovacs attempt from 2008 (VIDEO).
harder vaults in the NCAA
Now that Yurchenko layout 1/1 is only out of 9.95 maximum, there’s more incentive to compete other vaults.
CalicoIzzy is compiling a list of women competing alternatives.
Yurchenko doubles
Ashleigh Gnat, LSU
Piked front 1/2s
Hunter Price, Oklahoma
Alexis Mattern, Ohio State
Bailey Abernathy, MinnesotaTsuk fulls or Kasamatsu fulls (1/2s?)
Nina McGee, Denver
Emily Richardson, Cal
Mary Jacobsen, Oregon State
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Sarah Finnegan – Beam
Balance Beam Situation – new NCAA rules
Well, well well. Look at yourselves. No 197s. No accidental 10s given for Yurchenko fulls. …
faith bigger than your fears
Gymnastics Bar act 1952
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(via Robert Cowan)
Bars – low to high transfers
Gymneo posted a new coaching tutorial in their French edition. (It will be some months before it gets posted in English.)
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Gymnastics Coaching.com 