tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Great move from the FIG MTC. In the next Olympic cycle multiple salto roll-out skills are banned for Men as they have been for Women.
Gymnastics is dangerous enough without encouraging athletes to risk their lives. Many gymnasts have suffered serious concussions on these skills.
Elena Mukhina was paralyzed training the Thomas salto just two weeks before the opening of the 1980 Summer Olympics leaving her permanently quadriplegic. Elena died Dec 22, 2006.
The 2016 Mikhail Voronin Cup concluded with Russia’s oldest active gymnast winning the senior all-around with a score of 56.767 …
She also had a pretty successful outing in the event finals, winning beam gold and floor bronze …
Our Russian Season – 2016 Voronin Cup Report
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Serious Russian overscoring at 14.967 (old Code).
related – Lauren Hopkins – Voronin: The Last Meet of the Year
Nina could have one of the highest start values in the world in 2017.
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Nina was 19th AA in Rio, the best rank ever by a Belgian at the Olympics.
related – Belgian Gymnastics – My 2016 Highlights!
(via Irish Daniel)
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Thanks Mike.
Yep.
GymnasticsProgressions.com offers coaching tutorials. They launched about a year ago.
It’s for WAG coaches. Especially those focused on high potential young kids.
A Diamond member showed me some of the content. Good stuff.
Topics are arrayed fairly randomly. I’d prefer a table of contents.
There’s not much on biomechanics and sport science.
Members pay $7.99 / month. Diamond members $14.99 / month. Or you can buy tutorials individually.
If that’s too expensive for you, be sure to LIKE their Facebook page. They have some good free content there.
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Toni-Ann Williams (Jamaica)
Irina Sazonova (Iceland)
Ariana Orrego (Peru)
Ellis O’Reilly (Ireland)
Dipa Karmakar (India)
Houry Gebeshian (Armenia)
Marisa Dick (Trinidad and Tobago)
Farah Boufadene (Algeria)
Isabella Amado Medrano (Panama)Olympics of Records: The First Female Gymnasts Who Represented Their Country In Rio 2016
Of those only Dipa has trained exclusively in her home nation. #respect
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