Many gymnasts tell how their parents first took them to dance.
TOO BORING. 🙂
Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
competition Vault mats are dangerous
A couple of weeks ago at the EDGE Symposium I asked Todd Gardner – USA National Staff Vault coach – if there was anything that could be done to reduce the number of serious injuries on competition Vault mats.
We came up with no brilliant solutions.
My one idea is to replace our current hard 20cm mats with a landing surface more like what they use in Double Mini-tramp competition. It’s much more forgiving.
At about 1 minute into this news interview with Rebeca Andrade you can watch her recent ACL injury. She under-twists a landing on competition mats. 😕
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Why is it that we never hear Dr. Michel LÉGLISE and the FIG Medical Commission weigh in on issues like this. What is it they do? Exactly?
(via Let’s Talk Gym)
HAYASAKA Naoto – Floor
Top qualifier at FISU Games with 15.550.
He uses the offset round-off as so many of the Kenzo wannabes are doing these days.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via THE ALL AROUND)
Swan Lake – Great Chinese State Circus
Acrobatic Gymnastics meets ballet.
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
Hernandez, Foberg, Smith
Unofficial Jr AA verification from the last National Team camp.
men in pink
Men’s judges at the FISU Games.
FISU Games on YouTube
Some Universiade prelims have been posted. This clip is mostly MAG.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (1hr 8min)
Maria Paseka – Amanar
American success story – Chris Young
The USA is the greatest nation in the world. But gets plenty of criticism too. It’s a big target.
Good things don’t tend to get as much press as bad stories. Here’s a good story. 🙂
1999 USA World Championships Team Member Chris Young credits his first coach, Bob Kohut, with shaping his gymnastics career. And his life.
It’s been 15 years since Chris Young retired from competitive gymnastics. Nevertheless, the inspiring story of how he overcame long odds to become a world-class gymnast never gets old.
Young, who was born and raised in Winston-Salem, was introduced to the sport by Big Brother/Big Sisters volunteer Ron Brown. Initially, the sport seemed to be an odd fit for a black youngster who didn’t grow up in the suburbs. …
Former world-class gymnast Chris Young continues to pay it forward
Click PLAY or watch a fluff piece on YouTube.
Today Chris is a coach and co-owner of Flip Force Gymnastics.
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From July 4th through August 31st Gymneo is offering a 30% discount. That takes the 219€ / year ($243) membership to 153€ ($170).
There are more French language videos than English. But the English section is catching up as each of the French originals is translated.
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