Author: Rick Mc

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

Yul Maldauer – P Bars double pike 1/2

In training.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIa8PIKA8Nq/

(via papaliukin)

TIME Magazine’s Olympic issue – Simone

… Just 4 ft. 8 in.–the shortest member of the 555-person U.S. delegation in Rio–Biles pulls off moves too challenging for even her elite rivals, soaring with a preternatural comfort in the air.

She’s “in a caliber with nobody else in the world, really,” says Nastia Liukin, the 2008 Olympic all-around gold medalist, who will cover the Games for NBC. “Nobody is even close to her.” …

Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights

Simone Time

Here’s an older Time cover with Gabby.

Gabby Time

Thanks Dave.

the costs of Level 10 Gymnastics

Interview with U.S. Gold owner and head coach Kathy Dwyer, Level 10 gymnast Virginia Bailey and family.

Click on the image to play the video.

price of level 10

The price of gold: Level 10 gymnastics

Shallon Olsen in Rio

Shallon did so much difficulty so young that many (including me) feared she wouldn’t last through to the 2016 Olympics.

In fact she’s had very few injuries over the years. 🙂

Click the image to watch a TV news spot on CTV.

Shallon

Excalibur has 2 Olympians

Both train at Excalibur Virginia Beach.

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olympic-qualifiers-ariana

Click PLAY or watch Ariana on YouTube. She’s the first Peruvian Olympic gymnast.

(via IG)

Acrozorbing? Zorbnastics?

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In 1994 Dwane van der Sluis and Andrew Akers conceived the idea for a type of sphere in Auckland, New Zealand, calling their invention the “Zorb”.