Author: Rick Mc

From the fantastic Joe Langley YouTube channel. Possibly the very best source of free coaching videos on the internet. At one time it cost $120/yr to subscribe to those.

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Watch the trailer for the twelfth episode of The Hard Way To Success with Luke Carson.

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The Gymnastics federations of Zimbabwe and of Mozambique both hosted an FIG Follow-up and Monitoring Camp for the FIG Age Group Development and Competition Programme in Artistic Gymnastics on February 28 to March 2, 2014. These were the 37th and 38th Age Group training sessions that has now had the attendance of 816 different coaches from 77 countries

Thanks go to the very active President Edmundo Ribeira who attended the camp directly after arriving from Paris and left immediately afterwards to attend the FIG Gymnastics for All Symposium in the USA. Lucinda Martins did most of the advance organizational work.

Both of these three-day camps focused primarily on practical work in the gymnasium with coaches and their gymnasts on the various technical and physical tests, the compulsory exercises and the modified optional rules. …

FIG – Zimbabwe and Mozambique simultaneously host FIG Age Group Camps

A few photos from the MOZ Camp hosted at the Faculdade de Educação Física e Desporto, Maputo.

The kids are natural athletes. Coaches are keen. But a lack of training equipment has stalled development of the sport since some years ago when East German coaches first arrived.

Leave a comment if you have any suggestions on how to get gymnastics equipment to Africa.

LEIGH HENNESSY ROBSON:

Uploaded to the YouTube account of Samuel Castro is a video called “Trampoline Best Legends.” It’s been making the rounds on social media networks. There are many outstanding performances on the video, including clips of trampoline gymnasts at Cirque and on the winter slopes. I don’t know where he got all the clips and I’m not sure who all the performers are or where they are performing. However, I did bear witness to a few of the performances in person.

Galimbatoviski is the most talented gymnast you probably never heard of. At minute 2:25 is a clip of him performing an historic record-breaking routine, the first competition routine with 5 triples in a row, and the first with a rudi-out triffis. He performed two of them: rudi-out triff tuck, 1/2 in rudi-out triff tuck, triff pike, 1/2 in triff tuck, triff tuck – solid, on an ancient 1/4? bed. …

I did not witness Canada’s Jason Burnett perform his world-record DD routine of 17.7 in a 2007 World Cup, but his routine is included in this compilation of Trampoline greats at 5:30.

Trampoline Pundit – Best Trampoline Legends Video

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related – 1964 (December) A Year of Trampoline Champions & the Nissen News

I’ve not logged into the painfully antiquated Troester NCAA rankings all season. Road to Nationals (linked from the top of our home page) is far superior.

And sometimes more accurate.

Before we put a child up high, we need teach them every possible way to land and fall from that height.

Some of the most important “skills” we teach young children are: safe climbing, safe landing, safe falling.

Visions Gymnastics, RSA

I find some coaches, in a rush, neglect getting new kids technically and psychologically ready prior to the first time they accidentally fall.

Bea Gheorghisor posted a Gymnix wrap-up on Couch Gymnast:

The event finals at Gymnix were competed in both the Junior Cup and Challenge.

In the Junior Cup Canada and Russia took home the most hardware. …

2014 Gymnix: Event Finals (RESULTS & VIDEO)

RRG – Russian girls win six medals on final day of International Gymnix Junior Cup