Author: Rick Mc

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

Kovacs with an extra salto

Timo Niemelä from Finland.

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He’s been training it since at least 2011. Despite suffering a type of chronic fatigue syndrome.

Thanks Carolien.

Men’s Worlds day 1 photos

Sports2Visuals is posting great great photos to Facebook to Facebook VERY quickly.

Dan Purvis

Here are some of Grace Chiu’s pics.

Gymnastics training snack breaks

Around the world most male gymnasts do not take one. Most female gymnasts do.

Average time of a snack break seems to be 10 minutes, based on one informal survey.

I recall arriving as the new Head Coach of one major Gymnastics Club. My first action was to cancel all snack breaks for all groups. (It wasn’t a very popular move with some parents.)

The girls would be allowed to grab a snack as needed, instead.

Snack breaks aren’t needed during a 4hr training, clearly. Many Gyms do not schedule them.

It’s a waste of valuable training time, in my opinion.

Leave a comment if you disagree.

healthysnacks for gymnast

Theatre of KÀ

If you’ve seen this Cirque show in Vegas, you know that the stage is the star.

Amazing technology.

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(When did Cirque get Morgan Freeman to do voice overs? 🙂 )

HERO of day 1 – Eleftherios Petrounias

Leading RINGS preliminaries, so far.

LIKE and SHARE this video on Facebook. His father recently passed away. 😦

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Men’s World Championships day 1

Half the gymnasts have competed. Four long, exciting sessions at #Glasgow2015.

Switzerland impressed me most. They were psyched. Hit a LOT of routines.

1. JPN 358.884
2. CHN 357.027
3. GBR 354.417
4. RUS 352.692
5. SUI 350.127
6. BRA 349.057
7. KOR 346.166
8. GER 345.717

Korea had the loudest, most enthusiastic fans.

Most of the other teams would take a do-over, if they got the chance.

For Japan and China prelims don’t matter much. They are focused on the 3-up, 3-count Final.

But prelims do decide the AA and apparatus finalists. That does matter.

related – preview of MAG day 2