Author: Rick Mc

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

Alice Sumners acro Beam series

Click PLAY or watch it on Tumblr.

https://www.tumblr.com/jennifer-23-gymnastics/161031818096/alice-is-it-possible-to-do-a-free-walkover-free

Ellie Black leads Nationals AA 55.517

Ellie watered down some of her routines, prelims being not critical for her qualifying to the final. But she looked great. Well coached. Her new Floor choreography is excellent.

1. Ellie Black 55.517
2. Rose-Kaying Woo 53.734
3. Brooklyn Moors 52.601
full results

Most of the contenders for the Worlds team were trying not to “win” prelims.

Here’s my summary of the big stories of the night:

• Senior women looked very good overall. Canada has some depth in choosing the six women who will compete at home Worlds 2017.

• Ellie and Isabela Onyshko are training with the goal of representing in the AA. In fact all 5 of the Rio Olympians competed.

• Bela had the top Beam score 14.034 (5.60), always so pretty to watch. Unfortunately she scored 7.200 on Bars. Yep. On a full routine. You don’t want to know how that happened. Vault was also not great. But I’ve learned not to underestimate Isabela. She is such a hard worker this will simply motivate her to crush it next time.

• Rose Woo looked good. Top 5 on all 4 apparatus.

• Brooklyn Moors was the most astonishing gymnast of the night. Her handspring double front half out on Floor was perfect in warm-ups and competition. The most exciting skill of the night. She loves the front tumbling.

Here’s Brooklyn’s handspring front on Beam. (5.40 D-score)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUiM3gsh9_N/

• Brittany Rogers is amazing. She’s been trying to finish school at Georgia training only when the Team is not training. Yet shows up at Nationals with a 6.00 start score on Bars!

Click PLAY or watch Brit on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUiQwybBypC/
• If you are already drafting the Canadian team, be sure to include Shallon Olsen. Super tough. And the Olympic Vault finalist was cleaner today on both Vaults, I thought. (no Amanar)

Click PLAY or watch Shallon’s DTY on Instagram. Small step.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUiNC8dhEXK/
• I was very happy to see Jessica Dowling tied for 2nd on Bars. I believe she’s eldest competitor. Always one of my favourites.

• I don’t know Laurie Denommée. But I should. She mounts with double layout full on Floor. Second pass double layout!

The rest of the field was super too. We saw Bhardwaj, Hecht back tuck off Bars, …

Watch more video on the Worlds Montréal Instagram.

Ana Padurariu dominates Canadian Jrs

Preliminaries. Jr Finals go Saturday night.

1 Ana Padurariu 55.567 Gemini
2 Emma Spence 51.117 Dynamo
3 Mia St-Pierre 49.884 Gym-Fly
4 Gabrielle Deslauriers 49.584 Wimgym
5 Quinn Skrupa 49.351 Brandon Eagles
6 Imogen Paterson 49.267 Vancouver Phoenix
full results

Read Lauren Hopkins’ LIVE blog from the online stream.

https://t.co/3ArJDrpGoo

Canadian Worlds 2017 team selection

Following the 2017 Canadian Championships, six male athletes and six female athletes will be identified based on their likelihood to compete in an apparatus final at the 2017 Worlds, their potential for improvement, the consistency of their performances and their ability to deal with stress.

The final selection will be made during a training camp from July 2 to 8, 2017. The two teams will be officially announced on September 4. …

SELECTION OF TEAM CANADA

LIVE from Montreal

I’m in Montreal for Canadian Nationals. Commenting LIVE @GymCoaching. And posting the big stories on this site.

Click PLAY or watch a training promo on YouTube.

training forward layout on Floor

Coach Kim Tanskanen.

I really connecting to Flyspring after the drill.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

parent – coach – athlete relationship

I find many coaches — especially young coaches — not particularly skilled at dealing with the parents of their athletes.

Progress is much easier when parents are 100% on board your training plan.

You could forward Makenna’s post on the role of the sport parent:

HOMEWORK FOR GYMNASTICS PARENTS

As a follow-up, three books are recommended for parents:

(1) Positive Sports Parenting – quick read and easy application.

(2) Changing the Game – thorough and action oriented.

(3) How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk – advice and assignments that apply not just to sports but parent-child communication in general.

Men’s Best Scores of 2017

Uncle Tim updated his UTRS (Uncle Tim Ranking System).

The top scoring H Bar routine is 15.0 for Xiao Ruoteng. Here’s his most recent set.

Click PLAY or watch Xiao Ruoteng on YouTube.

6.2 + 8.333 = 14.533

4 Tkachevs? That’s too many. FIG MTC has been successful in decreasing the number of ugly Rybalko skills, but the rules should encourage a variety of different releases.

Also … is coach actually going to try to slow him down if he misses one of those Tkachevs? That’s a tough spot.