Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

the GREAT Elise Ray

Today Elise Ray-Statz is Head Coach of the University of Washington.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/1068535306360692736

Utah is on track for 2019

Great start to the season.

Click PLAY or watch some highlights v OSU on Twitter.

interview with Tom Forster

Women’s high-performance team coordinator is not a full-time job.

The process for Doha was successful so Tom so far plans to continue with that approach into the future.

Read the interview.

reducing Gymnastics injuries

Brette Warshaw posted an excellent overview on how to reduce injury:

1. Focus On Avoiding Overuse
2. Balance Out Your Gymnasts’ Strength (reduce muscular imbalance)
3. Track Your Gymnasts’ Growth
4. Never Stop Educating Yourself & Your Fellow Coaches
5. Take Fear Out of the Equation Early On
6. Empower Your Gymnasts

Click through for specifics:

6 Ways For Gymnastics Coaches To Better Prevent Injuries

related – 5 Of The Most Common Gymnastics Injuries & How Best To Prevent Them

2019 RD761 Jr International

USA
  1. Japan
  2. USA
  3. GBR
  4. GER
  5. FRA
  6. AUS
  1. Takeru Kitazono JPN 83.700
  2. Colt Walker USA 80.050
  3. Kotaro Suetsugi JPN  78.200
  4. Ryosuke Doi JPN  78.200

Full results.

Takeru Kitazono scoring 83.700 as a Junior is huge. He’s counting only 8 skills / apparatus.

 

Ferrari is back

The 2006 World Champion has not retired. 🙂

She’s planning on competing the Melbourne Apparatus World Cup in February in an attempt to qualify to Tokyo as a specialist.

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(via Cordelia)

following Men’s College Gymnastics

In 2019 it’s easy to follow 80+ teams in women’s collegiate gymnastics.

That’s not always the case for the Men. In fact, for some meets it’s challenging even to find LIVE scores online. ☹️

Stick it Media posted some tips:

To follow the action, you have to know when the meets are happening, so bookmark  Road to Nationals.

… site has all the schedules and results in one handy, interactive place, along with a link to the CGA website (which has recaps of each week’s action).

http://collegegymnews.com/ also has some men’s coverage.

Like/follow your favorite teams (or all of them) on Facebook and follow them on Twitter. Check their official websites for links to live scoring.  A twitter account is highly recommended if you want to get the most of following men’s NCAA gymnastics online. Many teams put up Facebook Live streams at the last minute, so following on FB/twitter is a great way to get notified about the streams. Following on Twitter gives access to scores/lineups in real time. Both FB and Twitter are good (read mostly only) sources for videos.

Links to NCAA/GymACT social media are all HERE

Subscribe to this list to get all the Twitter feeds in one place – great for meet day and following lineups/scores in real time.

I’d add a recommendation to follow Gymnasticsville and listen to their podcast. This is the best coverage I’ve seen so far this season.