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Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
#gymnastproblems – Wrist rips
Explaining those strange marks on your wrists.
Post by Jessica A Savona.
Manjak’s Summer Camp
Open now just over a year, Manjak’s in Toronto, Canada is offering their first ever WAG Summer training camp. Only 1 week this first summer, I guarantee it will be excellent.
Great gymnastics training. Great FUN.
July 7-11th. Three sessions a day for 5 days.
details (PDF)
AMA says Cheer is a Sport
Lucky us.
The American Medical Association is putting its weight behind designating cheerleading as a sport.
The nation’s largest doctors’ group adopted that as policy Monday at its annual meeting in Chicago. AMA members say cheerleading is as rigorous as many other activities that high schools and the NCAA consider sports. Adding it to the list would mean more safety measures for cheerleaders and proper training for their coaches.
The policy echoes one adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics two years ago. …
In related news, the AMA finally confirmed that water is wet. 🙂
At next year’s AMA meeting they will reconsider whether or not American Football is a sport. 🙂
extreme bionics?
How soon before we have the first ethical debate on whether an athlete with bionic limbs is at an advantage over athletes without them?
Update. Geoffrey Taucer sends this link for Cybathlon. The first world championships for robot-assisted parathletes. Switzerland 2016.
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Here’s the state of the art.
Hugh Herr is building the next generation of bionic limbs, robotic prosthetics inspired by nature’s own designs. Herr lost both legs in a climbing accident 30 years ago; now, as the head of the MIT Media Lab’s Biomechatronics group, he shows his incredible technology in a talk that’s both technical and deeply personal — with the help of ballroom dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis, who lost her left leg in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and performs again for the first time on the TED stage.
Watch that 19min long video presentation on TED.
related – FDA Approves Segway Inventor’s Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm
coach Chellsie Memmel
Chellsie on transitioning to Coaching:
… Switching sides going from being the athlete to the coach has been a huge transition for me. …
Being an athlete, you are in complete control of yourself and your movements. As the coach, you aren’t. And that can be frustrating sometimes, especially when, as the coach, I know I was as able to do that particular element (my own way). I know how to physically make something happen and what needs to happen mentally for me to do that particular skill. A coach can give their gymnasts all the tools and training techniques and practice, but the gymnast is still the one that has to physically do it. That has been hard for me…not having control over the gymnastics aspect.
Another big difference is figuring out each child’s personality and how they learn. …
Leg Straightening / Tightening
Swing Big:
Make sure that you’re gymnasts are sitting up straight and that their knees are completely locked out. …
European Championships montage
New Zealand Commonwealth Teams
For Glasgow 2014:
Men’s Artistic Team:
David Bishop
Matthew Palmer
Mikhail (Misha) Koudinov
Kristofer Done
Reid McGowan
Women’s Artistic Team:
Courtney McGregor
Charlotte Sullivan
Mackenzie Slee
Brittany Robertson
Anna Tempero
The entire women’s team trains at one club, the Christchurch School of Gymnastics.
Women’s Rhythmic Team:
Kelly Macdonald
Amelia Coleman
Post by NZ Olympic Team.
Eddie Penev interview
Eddie Penev is an American Team member who was born in Bulgaria. He could compete for either nation. GymCastic caught up with him after his 2 Gold medals (FX and Vault) at the last World Cup.
• Eddie suggests that FIG better standardize Floors and Spring Boards. There are too many differences between the “approved” equipment manufacturers
• of the Floor’s Eddie has competed on, he like the Japanese (Senoh) Floor best.
Listen to GymCastic episode 98: Eddie Penev the Bulgarian-American Bullet
Eddie’s Floor is great. (VIDEO)
But he’s working upgrades. He’d like to replace double double layout with this triple double.
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An easier way to make the USA A-team would be a consistent 14.500 Pommel routine.
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