Author: Rick Mc

Good motivation. 🙂

A core conditioning program to music put together by James Thompson and Kasey Cottrill.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Swing Big)

… a fitness program that combines a wide variety of functional movements into a timed or scored workout.

We do pull-ups, squats, push-ups, weightlifting, gymnastics, running, rowing, and a host of other movements. Always varied, always changing …

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The only other athletes who can challenge female gymnasts in strength.

Ashley Koto, DPT, ATC:

In the sport of women’s artistic gymnastics, the most common injuries occur in the lower body. …

CHKD Sports Medicine Blog – Stick It: Getting Back to Proper Landings for Gymnastics

Former Rhythmic gymnast Elizabeth Vasileva from Bulgaria.

Amazing stuff.

Click PLAY or watch some floor training on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch some Beam training on YouTube.

related – Elizabeth Vasileva – Beam

The year Kyle Shewfelt won Floor at the Athens Olympics.

click for MUCH LARGER version

A “show” after the competition. Looks like FUN. 🙂

And this guy, Gabriel Beauchamp, is good.

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Charles Beauchamp has more videos including this one of Gabriel’s gymnastics story.

The gymnasts of Quebec are training towards 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles.

Special Olympics were founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver.

… Designed by coaches, The Colt is the exact shape of a Pommel Horse at half the length …

… 3 handle placement locations: center and both ends (regulation width apart).

… light enough to be easily moved (40 pounds without pommel handles) …

Manufacturer: DGS

Price: From $440.00 to $745.00

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If you move guys too quickly from mushroom to full-size horse, technique may suffer. This looks a great intermediate step.

And may even cause less wrist pain.

Lachlan Walker is one of the founders of Ring Fraternity, a site providing strength training tutorials.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

NOW. Start working on the feet. 🙂

With Cab Calloway.

Fayard and Harold Nicholas were a fantastic set of flash-dancers who performed as the Nicholas Brothers. Born seven years apart, the brothers performed for decades on stage and screen, later teaching dance to Michael and Janet Jackson, among many others.

In the performance below from Stormy Weather, many of their trademark moves are on display — jumping down stairs into splits, sliding up from splits without using hands …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Fred Astaire once called this performance “the greatest dance number ever filmed.” Mikhail Baryshnikov said, “Those guys are perfect examples of pure genius.” …

Fluff piece from 1992.

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Trent was the 1992 Olympic H Bar Champion. Lance made the 1988 and 1992 Olympic teams.

Click PLAY or watch Trent’s Gold Medal routine on YouTube.

Lance has a book I’ve never seen.

It’s Not Just Gymnastics; It’s Life by Lance Ringnald and Stacey Lake (2012)

Leave a comment if you’ve read it. Lance was a very likeable gymnast.

Thanks Emilio.