I am bib number one today. That means I will be the first girl EVER to ski jump in an Olympic event. ALL SMILES 🙂
— Sarah Hendrickson (@schendrickson) February 11, 2014
Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
Elite Canada
Elite Canada Jr.
1 Woo, Rose-Kaying Gym-Richelieu 59,050
2 Olsen, Shallon Omega Gymnastics 57,650
3 Rousseau, Audrey Club Equilibrix 55,000
The junior competition was dominated by two gymnasts, Rose-Kaying Woo and Shallon Olsen, who won all five gold medals awarded in this competition.
Rose-Kaying Woo managed to take the all around title mostly due to her consistency. Her ‘easiest’ event was vault where she only had a starting value of 5.0 but managed to execute cleanly. Her biggest scoring event was beam, with 15.20 (6.7). Beware when looking through these scores though as a bonus system was used and the D scores are not in syncwith the FIG Junior Code of Points. Woo also won the event titles on bars and beam respectively. …
Click PLAY or watch Rose-Kaying Woo – prelim Bars on YouTube.
I’ve heard Rose-Kaying sometimes trains strap bar and regular bar on alternate turns, rolling down her grips each time to use straps.
Elite Canada Sr.
1 Moors, Victoria – Dynamo 56,250
2 Yu, Aleeza – Gemini 55,650
3 Black, Ellie – Halifax ALTA 55,250
Unlike the junior competition which was dominated by two gymnasts, in the senior’s meet each title went to a different gymnast:
Victoria Moors managed to take the all around. In the event finals she only competed on bars and beam placing 4th and 7th respectively. Overall, Victoria’s meet was riddled with mistakes, minor and major, but given that her main goal here was to test her new skills in a competition environment, she will be pleased with what she achieved. …
Couch Gymnast – 2014 Elite Canada
Aleeza Yu #EliteCanada Sr beam pic.twitter.com/wzpf3dFPqZ
— Grace Chiu (@GraceClick) February 9, 2014
Madison Kocian – Bars
WOGA Invitational.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Couch Gymnast:
• WOGA Classic: Sr. Results and Report
• WOGA Classic: Jr. Results and Report
Brazilian junior Rebeca Andrade dominated the all around in style, taking the title two points ahead of 2nd place Amy Tinkler.
(via GymCastic)
Acrobaddict – Joe Putignano
Publisher’s Weekly:
After reading former Olympic gymnastics hopeful Putignano’s sinister yet intoxicating memoir of addiction, recovery, and more addiction, you wind up feeling like one of his closest friends.
The first-time author, who now portrays Crystal Man in Cirque du Soleil’s traveling production of Totem, divulges what must be nearly every significant detail of his journey from the basement of his parents’ Massachusetts home, where as an 8-year-old he taught himself flips using old couch cushions; to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs …
(via FIG)
Ferrari – Comaneci Salto
beautiful and perfect sport
Maggie Nichols – Bars combo
Power Tumbling – triple triple
Kristof Willerton from the U.K.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
related – Kristof Willerton – crazy triples
(via FIG)
aerials
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Post by Meagan Fidyk.
Knee Injuries In Gymnastics
Dave Tilley and Joe Myhren posted a detailed article on how professionals can assess risk of serious knee injury. The post opens with some alarming statistics:
Traumatic knee injuries such as ACL tears are 4-6 times higher in female athletes compared to males for jumping and landing sports, with some study models suggesting even a 10 times greater risk at baseline
This risk may be increased 10 fold for the young female athlete of high school age, meaning some models would place certain high school aged gymnasts to be 14 – 20x more likely to suffer an injury at baseline
The estimated cost of medical management following traumatic knee injuries is between $17,000 – $25,000 per injury.These numbers can further increase with more complex injuries that require extensive medical interventions and rehabilitation.
Some traumatic knee injuries have been associated with potential long term loss of sports participation, lowered academic performance, long term disability, major functional deficits, and a significant risk of future meniscal injuries/ knee osteoarthritis.
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Best practice is to avoid serious knee injury. Teach great technique from a young age to lower risk later in life.
The article includes many graphics. A couple of examples:
If interested, click through.
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