The next episode of The Hard Way To Success looks great. It features Dutch gymnast Julia Bombach.
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Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
introducing el-grip handstand
In many MAG gyms I see Men’s coaches torturing young guys, trying to force their shoulders to be flexible for dorsal grip requirement on Horizontal Bar.
FIG certainly should have dropped the dorsal requirement long ago.
John Carroll at Surrey Gymnastics showed me a smarter, safer way to start.
He uses parallettes, having the guys rotate them as far as they can — but not all the way to el-grip handstand.
John is B.C. Men’s Technical Coordinator and judged Worlds 2013 for Canada.
Zoe and the Beam
Goodheart Books:
Our first book tells the delightful story of an 8 year old gymnast Zoe (that name is not totally by coincidence!) who learns about having a peaceful balanced mind by walking eyes closed on a practice beam on the floor.
Worlds 2013 montage
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gene doping in acrobatic sport?
I’m quite worried about this looming issue.
The idea is simple: to alter our genetic makeup, the very building blocks of who we are, in order to make us stronger or faster. The practicalities are highly complex. …
Back in 2003, Wada (World Anti-Doping Agency) banned gene doping. …
handstand – room for improvement
Courtney McCool – 2004 Bars
I’ll grab any excuse to link to the beautiful form and presentation of McCool.
There’s a dramatic story to this routine, as well.
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That was one of the favourite memories of coach and author Julie Cross as linked by Arabian Punch Front:
• Author Interview: Julie Cross Part 1
• Author Interview: Julie Cross Part 2
Download Julie’s novel Letters to Nowhere from Amazon. ($.99 Kindle edition)
>Her family may be shattered, but her dreams aren’t…
A Mature YA contemporary set in the tough world of Elite Gymnastics.
British men in 2014
British Gymnastics:
We caught up with Head National Coach, Eddie Van Hoof”
“In the immediate future we are looking to prepare all the team for the British Championships in March. It’s quite an exciting prospect again for everyone being in Liverpool and on the podium. It really sets the tone to then go into the European Championships in Sofia in May, where both our junior and senior teams are defending their titles. The real focus now is on giving everyone the challenge to come back with gold.”
“This then immediately leads into the Commonwealth Games in July in Glasgow, which I know splits the team into the home nations but we are hoping for real success in terms of profile and media interest. The gymnasts continue their main preparation as we move into the World Championships in China in October which is obviously by rights the first qualifier for Rio 2016. Only the top 24 teams from the 2014 Worlds will then qualify for the 2015 World Championships …
best 2013 / 2014 snowboard
WARNING — There are some serious falls included in this otherwise awesome montage.
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(via Kylie Stone)
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