Jingle Bells Christmas. 🙂
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Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
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GymnasticsProgressions.com
It’s here. Justin Laury’s Gymnastics Progressions website has launched just in time for Christmas. 🙂
Great gymnastics drills. Very good editing. You could buy a $7.99 Monthly Subscription.
They also sell coaching tutorial videos. For example, $9.99 gets you …
The Developing Beginning Gymnastics 4-part Series! The series includes General Upper Body Strength, General Lower Body Strength, Basic Core & Beginning Body Shaping and Flexibility. …
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Here are some of the contributors from Euro Star.
If you can’t convince your club owner to buy you a membership, LIKE their Faceboook page, at least. We want to encourage more coaches to share their best drills.
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backyard Bag Jump
“tilt twisting”
A body is somersaulting in space, forward or backward.
Anything that makes the body asymmetrical, causes the body to tilt to the left or right.
For example, this guy lifts his left arm, drops his right arm. He tilts as shown in green.
Why? Newton’s 3rd law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite (concurrent) reaction. The body moves in the opposite direction to the arms.
Many gymnasts don’t realize they are tilted. But it’s important to coaches for one BIG reason. The gymnast should un-tilt before coming back to earth. They want to finish the salto symmetrical in most cases.
For example, if the gymnast above wanted to land and stick that twisting skill, he’d move his arms back to where they started. He would un-tilt.
That’s all a coach needs to know about tilt, in my opinion. Too much biomechanical analysis can be worse than not enough. 🙂
If you want to know more, Google Fred Yeadon. One of the top twisting experts. Here’s one of his many articles – Physics World – The physics of twisting somersaults.
The resource I’ve used all my life was written by Hardy Fink.
Technique – An insight into the Biomechanics of Twisting
Tokyo Olympic stadium cut back
Japan chose a scaled-down design Tuesday for the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, five months after scrapping the initial design and construction plan for being too costly. …
New: 153 billion yen ($1.23 billion)
Old: 252 billion yen ($2.08 billion)
The original stadium proposal would have been the most expensive stadium ever built.
what Susie wants for Christmas
Did you guess?
That’s from JagGym – Dear Santa
related – When Will My Susie Start Kipping? 🙂 (VIDEO)
diver Meaghan Benfeito
Remember the name. This is one of the few divers in the world very competitive with the Chinese superstars.
Two-time Canadian Olympian Meaghan Benfeito of Montreal reclaimed her national title, winning gold in the women’s 10-metre tower on Saturday at the Winter Nationals diving competition in Saskatoon. She earned 389.75 points. …
She switched one of her difficult dives for Saskatoon. And is now very happy with the change. 🙂
… “As soon as I learned the new dive, I said to my coach, why didn’t you make me learn the new dive way earlier?” …
Meaghan Benfeito (born March 2, 1989) is a Canadian diver. She competes in the 10m synchronized event with Roseline Filion. Benfeito and Filion won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the 10 m platform synchro event.
Thanks Tom.
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If you travel with a roller, check this out.
The Morph Collapsible Foam Roller. Collapse. Stash. Go.
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cover boy Arthur Nory
Brazilian athletes will be getting a LOT of coverage in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics.
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Thanks Ricard.
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