Author: Rick Mc

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

Kyle Shewfelt OLY

Olympians can register to add OLY to their name as a post-nominal designations.

BIG problems for British Gymnastics

British Gymnastics is facing a crisis with its biggest stars, including the double Olympic champion Max Whitlock, refusing to sign World Class Performance Programme contracts and being threatened with having their funding withdrawn.

An internal power struggle between the performance, commercial and management teams about the content of the contract has led to a rebellion among the athletes. The Guardian understands almost all of the team which won a record seven medals at the Rio Olympics last summer have refused to sign the contract. …

Guardian

There are many more concerns listed in that article. Click through for sure.

via Gymternet Clan

Combs La Ville Jr team results

JUNIOR:
1 – Italia
2 – Squadra di Mosca
3 – Canada

That Canadian team is Kyra Cato, Ilka Juk and Sophia King all from Calgary Gymnastics Centre.

Austin Nacey – Quad back stuck

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Austin finished second to super twister Mikhail Zalomin from Russia.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BbY10xVn5OA/

Oklahoma training Bars

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(via BBS)

Bars dismount – Tanac

REPOST from 2010:

A great old school dismount. Back in the day it was competed by many girls, especially the ones who did not like flyaways.

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That’s Nellie Kim competing it with a full twist. But it’s today a banned skill in the F.I.G. Code of Points. Happily, it’s still allowed in some levels of competition, including NCAA.

It went by many names depending on where you lived: “Spank Back”, “Whip Salto”, … Also, butt beat, Munich Salto, …

Update: Chris, of Coaching Gymnastics in the new Millennium , sends us this link: Biography – Joyce Tanac-Schroeder. The skill was, at one time, named after her.