Author: Rick Mc

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

MyKayla Skinner’s Beam save

The great ones have a way of making balance errors look artistic. 🙂

Floor went a little better.

American Cup today

Click PLAY or watch a USAG teaser on Twitter.

Lauren Hopkins’ LIVE blog.

Bryony Page – English Institute of Sport (EIS)

The Olympic silver medalist spends more time training off the Trampoline than on.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Artur Dalaloyan – Vault, Floor

Very good.

Click PLAY or watch his TTY on Tumblr.

https://papa-liukin.tumblr.com/post/157950222170/probably-arturs-best-piece-of-gymnastics-tty

He’s a twister. Check this tumbling pass.

https://papa-liukin.tumblr.com/post/157950521695/that-time-artur-did-11-31-and-stuck-it-cold

Nagornyy – H Bar

Horizontal Bar has historically been weak for Russia. Surprising since their coaches are so technical.

But Nikita Nagornyy has his (maximum) 5 releases set for this Code.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via papa-liukin)

Kai Rivers, Carly Bauman #NastiaCup Champions

Senior
1. Kai Rivers – Twistars 38.650
2. Rachael Lukacs – North Stars 38.525
3. Andrea Li – Legacy Elite 38.425
full results

Click PLAY or watch Kai’s DTY on YouTube.

Junior
1. Carly Bauman – Chow’s 38.425
2. Rose Casali – Southeastern 38.075
3. Lali Dekanoidze – Southeastern 37.825
full results

Click PLAY or watch Carly’s Bars on YouTube.

USAG will be posting all routines on the 2017 Nastia Liukin Cup playlist

USA Gymnastics court records released

A Georgia judge, at IndyStar’s request, released more than 5,600 pages of court records Friday detailing how USA Gymnastics handled sexual abuse allegations against coaches over a 10-year period.

… sexual abuse complaint files on 54 coaches, revealed that some coaches weren’t banned from the sport until years after they were convicted of crimes against children.  …

USA Gymnastics fought the release for nearly nine months, including in two appeals to the Georgia Supreme Court. …

Judge releases USA Gymnastics sex abuse files

The GymCastic audiocast has been updating this case week-by-week.