Author: Rick Mc

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Had a blast training in Germany this week! Excited to see some upgrades come together. Triple twisting double finally on the real floor and in the routine! Huge thank you to all the coaches and PTs that went well out of their way to help me with anything I needed. Can't wait to come back one of these days! #danke #Stuttgart #turn #KTTHeilbronn #onemorecomp ??

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Eddie, Jon Horton and Marvin Kimble are slated to compete Toyota Cup.

Chinese gymnasts showed their strength as the Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships began Thursday in Odense (DEN), leading qualification in six of the eight categories in Men’s and Women’s Trampoline and Tumbling, both individually and in the team competition. …

2014 World champion Tu Xiao will not get a chance to defend his World title: The 27-year-old finished sixth overall but fourth among the Chinese men in the qualifying round, and only the top three per country advance to Sunday’s semi-finals. …

Reigning World champion Liu Lingling could only shake her head after delivering a near-perfect routine in qualifications only to fall flat on her stomach before saluting the judges and signalling the end of her exercise. The fall cost Liu 1.5 points and the lead in women’s qualification, where she finished third behind her teammates, 2010 World champion Li Dan and 2008 Olympic champion He Wenna. Still, all is not lost for the 21-year-old, who will get a redo in Saturday’s semifinal. …

First tickets issued for The World Games 2017

By dint of their performances in qualification, men’s tumblers from China, Russia, Great Britain, Denmark, the USA, Canada, Belarus and Ukraine have all qualified for The World Games 2017, which will be held in Wroclaw (POL). China, Great Britain, the USA, France, Russia, Belgium, Canada and South Africa have earned places in Women’s Tumbling. …

FIG – China jumps out in front as Trampoline Worlds begin in Denmark

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Gillette World Sport travels to Denmark to meet Anders Wesch, a 2x Danish National Tumbling Champion. Anders is training hard in the run up to the 2015 World Championships in his home town of Odense, Denmark, and talks us through the dedication and precision required to be a professional tumbler.

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It was John Carney that first showed me this drill. He called it the “Tower of Power”.

Free hips should be first taught on a strap bar. When you move to the competition rail, instead of spotting, let them learn it by themselves.

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The drill encourages kids to keep their Centre of Mass as far away from the Bar as possible on the DOWN swing. And gives them plenty of practice on the grip change long before they need it for Giants.

The 60-second spot features several athletes with their families in their home countries, including:

Simone Biles (USA, gymnastics)

David Boudia (USA, diving) …

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“I was always the very strong, powerful, muscly, bulky gymnast and I felt like people always wanted me to be thinner and lighter and leaner,” she tells PEOPLE. “And as a 12-year-old, the only way I really understood how to achieve that was to eat less and restrict myself. I remember kind of obsessing over it.” …

“I never went to a doctor, talked to a psychologist or was diagnosed as anorexic, but I was definitely obsessive and had very unhealthy habits,” she explains. …

“Back then, the judges liked the look of a very lean and skinny gymnast that was artistic and graceful, rather than powerful like myself,” she says …

People magazine

GK Elite Sportswear, L.P., the world’s leading supplier of gymnastics apparel, is pleased to announce that Simone Biles will join their list of official endorsed athletes. …

Our Olympic Champion is already a Fitness model for GK.

Ol’ timers like me often harken back to the days of artistic Artistic Gymnastics. Elegant stars like the great, late Valentin Mogilny.

Here’s another of that quality. Click PLAY or watch a Dmitriy Bilozerchev montage on YouTube.

(via Jeff Robinson & Region 6 Men’s Gymnastics)