Author: Rick Mc

Guest post by Xavier Diamond, co-owner of TUNEGYM:

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not so hard to choreograph a good routine. All you need is a sense of rhythm, a passion for gymnastics, an endless source of patience and boundless energy!

Got all that covered?

If you’re ready, here are some more tips on how to get started being a gymnastics coach.

1. Assess the skills of your gymnast

2. Get them involved in the process

3. During practice, patience and repetition is key

4. Never make your budding gymnast do anything she’s uncomfortable with

5. Always be encouraging and motivating during practices

read the entire article – 5 Best Tips How to Choreograph a Winning Gymnastics Routine (WORD)

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Love it or hate it, there’s no way to forget Mince’s Floor.

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I love it. 🙂

Lloimincia Hall capped a record night with a 10.0 on floor in the final performance of the night as No. 3 LSU disposed of seventh-ranked Alabama, 197.650-196.825, in front of 8,055 fans, the second-largest crowd in school history, Friday night in the Maravich Center.

LSU (3-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) posted the fifth-highest team score in school history with a 197.650 with a 49.575 on vault, 49.400 on bars, 49.125 on beam and 49.550 on floor.

PHILADELPHIA – January 28, 2014 (WPVI) — Coaches and students at Temple University got to state their case … to try to save their team. A closed door meeting was held to discuss the university’s decision to cut several varsity sports. …

Temple President Neil Theobald said this is not something he wanted to do, but they are simply so overextended.

“I certainly will consider everything that was said today. I did hear some new information that I hadn’t heard before,” Theobald admitted. “And we will come back to the board with our consideration of everything that was said today and see we’re open to all ideas.”

Temple Univ. athletes plead to save their sports

I was at a South Africa training camp this weekend with Jesse Kitzen-Abelson, MAG Coach at Pinetown Gymnastics. Jesse was a two-year co-captain for Temple, graduating 2011.

Would Jesse be a coach today if the Temple program had not existed?

Get Me Psyched blog had a widely shared post last week:

Tags: children, children in sports, healthy-living, mental toughness, parents in sports, positive coaching, pushy parents, sports

… The coach stood there and stared at me. And then it hit me. And I left like an idiot. I was pushing and pushing my daughter to do something that I actually thought was scary and insane. I wouldn’t get up on the high dive, but I was screaming at my daughter and in the meantime I was ruining my relationship with her because I wanted to be special. I wanted to be supermom. I didn’t realize nor care that my daughter just wanted to have fun. She had no intention of competing in diving.

I looked at the coach, smiled, and said “Well played coach, well played.”

Well Played Coach, Well Played.

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Congratulations to one of the good guys.

Utah gymnastics coach Greg Marsden earned his milestone 1,000th win on Saturday, with his fourth-ranked Utes taking down the No. 19 Arizona State Sun Devils at Wells Fargo Arena. …

For the first time since the opener, the Utes didn’t have to count a fall on the balance beam, allowing them to earn their best score of the season.

“That made me happier than anything else,” he said. …

He was hired in 1976 to establish a team so the Utes could meet Title IX requirements. Under his guidance, the program became one of the most successful women’s sports in the country, winning 10 national titles and becoming the only team to qualify for all 32 NCAA championships.

Utes score season high as Marsden earns milestone win

Here’s the VIDEO.

(via Utah Gymnastics)

Catherine Lyons.

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(via GymCastics)

This is crazy.

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Kennedy Baker has retired from Elite. But this is the kind of skill that WOWS in NCAA. 🙂

(via Kim Zmeskal Burdette)

Final Score: Florida 197.875, Oklahoma 197.225

A really strong meet from both teams overall.

There weren’t really any problems except for the one fall for Oklahoma on beam. All things taken into account, this was a stronger meet for Florida than last week’s I think. There were places of high scoring throughout as we would expect, but nothing that went too too crazy this time. On floor, the score was a 49.575 for a performance that was probably mostly equivalent to last week’s. …

As for Kytra’s 10, I doubt we’ll hear much argument because it was better than last week’s 10. Sloan’s routine was probably about the same as last week’s. …

Balance Beam Situation LIVE blog

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Florida’s now drawing big crowds. They left happy after this one.

Freshman Silvia Colussi-Pelaez did Bars & Beam exhibition routines. She’ll be in the Bars line-up for most of her career as a Gator, I predict. It takes some time to switch from FIG to College routines.

(via Brigid)

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In a stroke of good fortune, Maddy Curley and Brooke Buffington have received the financial backing they need to create the “next great gymnastics movie” Chalk It Up. …

MCSMaria – Chalk It Up Movie Is A Go

Aug 16-28 in China.

FIG:

Just like at the Olympic Games, Men’s and Women’s Artistic, Trampoline and Rhythmic Gymnastics are included in the sports programme in Nanjing.

Artistic Gymnastics at the Youth Olympic Games features All-around competitions as well as Event Finals on the six apparatus for the men and four apparatus for the women, respectively. The YOG do not include a Team competition. Trampoline is on display with individual competitions for men and women and Rhythmic Gymnastics includes an individual All-around as well as a Group competition.

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What are the age requirements for gymnasts qualifying for the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games?

Women’s Rhythmic and Artistic Gymnastics participants must be 15 years old, (born between January 1 and December 31, 1999) and Men’s Artistic and Trampoline participants need to be 16 – 17 years old (born between January 1, 1997 and December 31 1998.)

What is the quota for each Gymnastics discipline at the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games and how is it divided for each continent?

A total of 84 places – 42 for men and 42 for women — have been allocated to Artistic Gymnastics. Europe has 19 places each for men and women; Asia has 10 places for the men and 9 for the women (including one host country place in each for China). Four places each have been allocated to Africa; America has eight places for the men and nine for the women; and one place each has been allocated to Oceania.

Individual Rhythmic Gymnastics has a quota of 18 places, divvied up into seven for Europe, four for Asia (including one host country place), three each for Africa and America and one for Oceania. Each continent may qualify one Rhythmic group, with Asia having an additional host country place for China, bringing the total up to six places.

Twelve places for men and women respectively have been allocated to Trampoline Gymnastics. Europe has a quota of four places each, Asia three each (including one men’s and or one women’s host country place for China), Africa and America have two places each for men and women, respectively, and Oceania may qualify one man and one woman.

Fast facts with 200 days to go before the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games

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