Month: April 2019

Nagornyy – best gymnast in the world?

Nikita is the man to beat, I’d say.

European Championships AA results.

Emyre Cole – Shewfelt

Fun fact – Many years ago Kyle Shewfelt worked with Em on learning Yurchenko at a camp at his home Gym in Vegas.

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Trinity Thomas – Floor

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Arkansas’ Mark Cook retired

Mark Cook, the Californian who was a co-founder of the University of Arkansas gymnastics program, announced his retirement Tuesday after 17 seasons with the Razorbacks. …

NW Arkansas Democrat Gazette

are your gymnasts actually getting STRONGER?

I see many Gyms with conditioning lists filled with general physical preparation.

Kids quickly adapt to the load and advancement soon flatlines. Many of our programs result in maintenance, not improvement.

Nick Ruddock consults with many Gyms around the world. One of the first things he looks at is their conditioning programs.

  1. Be Proactive
  2. Don’t Wait
  3. Collaborate
  4. Avoid ‘fluffy’ programming
  5. Have a structure
  6. Supervise
  7. Prioritise the Time
  8. Listen to your athlete
  9. Ensure Volume and Frequency is adequate
  10. Don’t neglect the significance of the time

Nick recommends 25-33% of your total training volume to be spent on physical preparation related activities. Bill Sands would say you could spend as little as 30 minutes / day if the program is individualized, correctly targeted and efficiently done.

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PHYSICAL PREPERATION MUST HAVES FOR GYMNASTS – “10 QUICK TIPS”

GAGE Summer Camp 2019

I visit a lot of clubs around the world.

The safest I’ve seen is GAGE in Kansas City, Missouri. Al builds a lot of his own equipment and matting to make circuits safer and more efficient.

If you want to see for yourself, consider registering for camp this summer.

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related – Former GAGE gymnasts Sarah (Shire) Brown — currently Head Coach at Penn State — is very entertaining and eloquent in talking about her years at GAGE. Listen to that interview on GymCastic episode 358.

Michael Paradise – Pommels

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Sam Mikulak – 6 routines from Tokyo

Great result and great experience competing in the Olympics 2020 city.

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https://youtu.be/uONZqsVt0Aw?t=19s

Zoé Allaire-Bourgie training

Wowser.

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