Author: Rick Mc

Coach Denis Vachon, one of the best twisters in the world himself, feels David might be the best Power Tumbling twister he’s ever worked with. 🙂

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Dagmar Nissen Munn:

Sometime in 1963-64, Wayne Miller, a young talented trampolinist from Louisiana, with the outstanding coaching of Jeff Hennessy, was the first person to successfully perform a triple twisting double backward somersault on the trampoline. Since he was the first, it became known as “The Miller.”

Wayne’s coach Jeff Hennessy did film it with a 16-mm camera and sent the footage to Jess Robinson for his column in the Modern Gymnast magazine. The sequence of frames from the original film were published in the 1964 July/August issue. …

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(via Trampoline Pundit)

Whistler Bounce Acrobatic Academy has been open for 2yrs, expanding to two adjacent gyms over that time. It’s a Trampoline club geared to ski and Action Sports.

Click PLAY or watch Deaner – Ski & Bounce on Vimeo. It’s got some pretty cool footage of Bounce. As well as big air on the slopes.

Deaner – Ski & Bounce from Stane Productions on Vimeo.

Normally I’d urge parents to keep their kids OUT of Trampoline gyms like this. But BOUNCE is better than most. More thoughtfully set-up. Better padded.

Dave Ross built them a custom Rebound Super Tramp. That’s one insane piece of equipment.

It’s worth checking out if you get up to Whistler B.C., site of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

It’s a mistake to have athletes do these with bad form.

We must incline the “board” (could be a mat) until they can do those with good technique.

Doug Davis agrees. In fact, he feels we should start leg raises with young kids lying on the floor.

If they are not strong enough for those, Doug would put them on an incline, but with the feet higher than the head. Gravity assists rather than providing resistance.

Tumbl Trak’s James Parent and I dropped in for a practice at Whistler Gymnastics‘ new facility in the Vancouver, B.C. resort town.

It’s fully equipped for WAG, Circus Arts and Trampoline.

A few steps next door is the Whistler Athletes’ Centre, a hostel where athletes & coaches can stay at low cost.

Thanks Karin, Tami and everyone at Whistler for your warm hospitality. 🙂

Over 2 million people visit Whistler annually for skiing, mountain biking, hiking and all things outdoors. If you are one of them, drop in to see this terrific gym in the mountains.

But better, younger.

One of the stories to watch at the Winter Olympics.

Mikaela Shiffrin is the reigning World Cup and world champion in slalom. …

Disciplines slalom, giant slalom

Club Burke Mountain Academy

Born March 13, 1995 (age 18)

Vail, Colorado, U.S.

Mom Eileen:

… “Because she skis so efficiently, everyone perceives Mikaela as this perfectly prepped, organized little machine,” Eileen said. … “If they only knew that we don’t know what we’re doing half the time.

“People think we’ve had this master plan to produce a world champion. We have no plan.”

Mikaela Shiffrin’s Swift, if Unplanned, Ascent to World Champion

Everyone’s heard of Mark Davis.

• 1st in the world to compete a Triple Fly-away High Bar
• 3rd in the world to compete Quad Fly-Away off swinging rings

… He started his career in the sport as a gymnast earning a full scholarship to southern Illinois University. In 1973 he studied men’s gymnastics in Japan on an exchange program.

He has coached at numerous gyms across the country including; California State University, Northridge 1973-78; Asst. Coach under Dan Connelley. SCATS Gymnastics 1980-88, where he assisted coach Don Peters an Olympic coach. At SCATS he helped coach Olympians Mitch Gaylord and Charles Lakes. Mark also coached for Kelli Hill, Hill’s Gym 2007-08. …

Today he’s USAG Boys Team Head Coach at Nittany Gym.

His comedy Ring routine starts at 1min 50sec. on this 1977 Santa Monica Gym Fest montage. 🙂

related – Muscle Beach Swinging Rings video

Thank David Reilly for the update.

CDN World’s Judge John Carroll linked to this very disappointing Floor Exercise routine from Teruyoshi Uchimura. 🙂

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Coach Katarina Nordbeck responded by linking to this hilarious act out of Sweden.

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Competitors at that competition included:

Cardigan Duffypoff, Latvia
Henry Racketson, Scotland
Svetlana Dostoyevsky, Soviet
Diet Maja Rüttelfock, DDR
Grapo Flop Gunder, South America
Fleming Speed ??Country, Luxembourg
Vanja Jumper, Romania
Knut Kragballe, Denmark
Fritiof Konkas, India

Elisa Emanuelli:

For the Italians, 2013 started with the return of Enrico Casella as Direttore Tecnico Nazionale (National Team Coach/Coordinator). In an interview, he stated that:

“Italy must do well on the occasions that matter, and must be able to compete on a global level.”

I would say that in 2013 Italy was able to do just that. … in total they won 17 international medals.

After the disappointment of the 2012 Olympics, many thought that Vanessa Ferrari might retire …

At 23, Ferrari, proved all the naysayers wrong. Of the 17 international medals won by Italy in 2013, Vanessa won 7 of those. She won 2 golds, AA and FX, at the Mediterranean Games; 2 silvers on floor, one from Worlds the other the La Roche sur Yon world cup; and 3 bronzes, 2 in AA at the Stuttgart and Glasgow World Cups and 1 on BB at the Mediterranean Games. The podium finishes at the end of the year World Cups means that Ferrari now has won a medal in every major international competition except for the Olympics.

read more – GYMNEWSTICS – 2013 Year in Review: Italy

Italy in 2014?

Giulia Holzer posted on Couch Gymnast:

… National coach Enrico Casella has decided on some specific “goals” the Italian girls have to reach . These are:

Vault:
– Learn a Kasamatsu vault
– Learn a Yurchenko 1 1/2 or 2

Bars:
– Every gymnast has to use grips
– Learn more releases

Beam:
– Learn 3 elements series with rebounding.
– Learn a “difficult” skill ( back tuck 1/1, layout or back
handspring 1/1)

Floor:
– Learn three difficult passes ( double layout, front double, triple
twist, full twisting double back, double Arabian, 2 1/2 twist to front 1/1)
– Create an artistic performance.

The Italy Update

Thanks Craig.