Sr Men’s podium training today

I’ll be commenting on Twitter @GymCoaching.

Wednesday is Jr Men’s podium.

Thursday August 9th Men’s European Championships competition begins.

Andy Murray is no GSP …

… but he can do a forward roll. #Tokyo2020 #Gymnastics

(via MAGnastics)

Diana Varinska interview

One highlight at Europeans was watching Ukraine.

Q: What is the reason for the rising level of women’s artistic gymnastics in our country?

A: I think it’s because we have a new head coach – Oleg Ostapenko. He created a new program for practices, warm-ups, and conditioning. Before, we usually didn’t do long warm-ups – you warmed-up quickly and went to the apparatuses. With Oleg Vasilyevich, we now start with conditioning sessions. Then we do a warm-up but not just five minutes, we do a difficult one, with tumbling. Then we do the four events. These warm-ups are needed in order to be able to do more work. With more conditioning, we started to do better on the apparatuses, too.

DIANA VARINSKA: NASTIA LIUKIN IS MY IDOL

Q: How did the team environment change after Oleg Ostapenko [new head coach] started working with you?

A: Everything changed. Before we used to be all on our own, even, for example, during warm-ups before practices. Now we’re all more together, the training load has changed, there’s some sort of system now. It didn’t exist before but he set up a system. …

ANGELINA RADIVILOVA: WE USED TO BE ALL ON OUR OWN BUT NOW WE’RE A TEAM

Angelina Kysla (now age-27) is married to Ihor Radivilov. 

Gymnova in Glasgow

The equipment supplier for European Championships 2018 is Gymnova.

Scottish Gymnastics has secured a new seven-year deal with the equipment sponsor.

Gymnova is providing a nice lounge near the training Gyms.

Patrick Kiens clinic in the U.K.

Choreography Masterclass, November 25th, 2018 in the Midlands. £79 / person.

Dutch National Team Coach and Choreographer

Personal Coach to Eythora Thorsdottir, 9th All Around at the 2016 Olympic Games, past Floor & Beam European Medallist.

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related – Eythora had hand surgery. It’s unknown as yet whether or not she’ll recover in time for Worlds.

spotting a stalled Jaeger

Russian junior gymnast Vladislava Urazova hit her feet on Jaeger stalling the forward rotation. I thought her coach did a good job slowing her down on the fall to her back.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/kazmatazard/status/1025320434567405569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1025320434567405569&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fsport%2F435020-russian-gymnast-crash-uneven-bars%2F

Riley McCusker’s Bars combo

Heart this on Tumblr.

Dutch National Coach Gerben Wiersma

Listen to the interview recorded a couple of weeks before Europeans.

Pleasure
Passion
Professionalism

PresentationArtistic Gymnastics
Performance

EP011 Gymnastics Growth Show – Nick Ruddock and Gerben Wiersma

Céline’s choreographer Daymon Jones

❤️

https://twitter.com/celinevangerner/status/1026347856771403776

https://twitter.com/celinevangerner/status/1026177201409015810