Category: floor (women)

Rick McCharles Gymnastics TIPS 😀

For Boys and Girls. 

This is a video I put together some years ago showing some of my favourite Gymnastics progressions.

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Round-off drills

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My preference is to teach beginners a straight leg hurdle, with late lunge. Tammy Biggs talks about the pros and cons of straight leg vs bent leg hurdle here.

Straight leg is cleaner, for sure.

My two favourite round-off drills could be added to Jason’s list.

• “cartoff” (cartwheel to run backwards)

• fly round-off on trampoline (feet together round-off)

Both are easy for beginners. Neither allows the kids to pike down.

advanced Gymnastics skills in training

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Nadia 50 years later

As a young coach, I almost jumped in a vehicle and drove 3 days to Montreal to watch Nadia win the 1976 Olympics.

It seemed to far. Too expensive. I didn’t go.

My mistake.

Her performance in Montreal was one of the great stories of our sport.

Nadia had a lot of difficulty. But — Nellie Kim had more. Nadia was more impressive to me for her astonishing execution.

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Varna World Cup – Highlights

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Varna World Cup ’26 RESULTS

Vault

🥇 Mara Slippens, Netherlands, 13.233
🥈 Julia Weissenhofer, Liechtenstein, 13.116
🥉 Tijana Korent, Croatia, 13.100

Bars

🥇 Roni Shamay, Israel, 13.200
🥈 Shantae-Eve Amankwaah, Great Britain, 13.133
🥉 Coralie Demers, Canada, 12.800

Beam

🥇 Maria Drobniak, Poland, 12.866
🥈 Nikolett Szilagyi, Hungary, 12.700
🥉 Amy Jorgensen, Canada, 12.600

Floor

🥇 Shantae-Eve Amankwaah, Great Britain, 13.233
🥈 Grace Davies, Great Britain, 12.966
🥉 Floor Slooff, Netherlands, 12.800

Full WAG results.

Floor

🥇 Victor Tournicourt, Belgium, 13.466
🥈 Martin Miggitsch, Austria, 13.300
🥉 Ravshan Kamiljanov, Uzbekistan, 13.166

Pommel

🥇 David Ivanov, Bulgaria, 14.633
🥈 Ravshan Kamiljanov, Uzbekistan, 14.166
🥉 Ihor Dyshuk, Ukraine, 13.900

One of the BIG stories of the meet was the return of Max Whitlock, the greatest British gymnast of all time. With nothing more to prove, now age-33, Max qualified for both the Pommel and P Bar Finals, but didn’t medal. This time.

Rings

🥇 Artur Avetisyan, Armenia, 14.233
🥈 Artur Sahakyan, Germany, 13.566
🥉 Akhrorkhon Temirkhonov, Uzbekistan, 13.466

Vault

🥇 Ng Chun Chen, Malaysia, 14.183
🥈 Daniel Trifonov, Bulgaria, 14.083
🥉 Botond Molnar, Hungary, 14.050

P Bars

🥇 Altan Dogan, Türkiye, 14.166
🥈 Yoan Ivanov, Bulgaria, 13.866
🥉 Ron Pyatov, Israel, 13.866

H Bar

🥇 Timo Eder, Germany, 13.666
🥈 Daniel Trifonov, Bulgaria, 13.566
🥉 Ron Ortal, Israel, 13.566

Full MAG results.

Every Perfect 10 from ’26 NCAA Gymnastics Regionals

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