Paul Hamm free 30min lesson

Using FaceTime on an iPad, Paul will give feedback to your gymnasts LIVE.

Here’s how it works.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

If any of your gymnasts want to continue with the Olympic Champion assistant coach:

Coaching -1Hr. – $75.00

Routine Analysis – $30.00

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confirmed – Middle East Camps

I’ll be leading Coach / Athlete Camps in several nations in December, part of the roll out of the new FIG Age Group Programme:

Twenty-eight federations have committed to implement the programme and the FIG will attempt to assist them with training and monitoring camps within their own countries so that many more of their coaches and gymnasts can be involved….

In the coming years, this FIG Programme is expected to become among the largest of FIG’s developmental initiatives. …

Nations that adopt these routine regulations can compete internationally with one another.

Jaakko Tenhunen – hand balancer

Art and philosophy.

… a professional hand balancer originally from Finland but now based in Cardiff. …

Click PLAY or watch him on Vimeo.

from Gingenious Productions on Vimeo.

… see more of Jaakko’s work

Thank Gregor of All Things Gym for the link.

Stuttgart – Kristina Goryunova – Beam

GymPOWER is uploading routines from World Cup Stuttgart.

Here’s one. The highest score in prelims ahead of Aliya.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 14.850

related – Examiner – Aliya Mustafina returns to competition at Stuttgart World Cup

Elizabeth Price – Bars

Marta could easily have chosen Elizabeth Price for the London Olympics. She’d now be a Gold medalist.

But that’s not what happened.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTQyNjY0MjA5?related=1

Watch more video of 2012 Stuttgart World Cup on gymnastike.org

She’s probably the best active competing gymnast in the World right now, so many Olympians having taken a break.

… Elizabeth Price of Parkettes will represent the United States December 1st at the 2012 Stuttgart World Cup event, and again at the Glasgow World Cup on December 8th. …

Couch Gymnast:

… Aliya Mustafina, Vanessa Ferrari, Elizabeth Price, Janine Berger, Oksana Chusovitina, Rebecca Tunney …

Stuttgart World Cup: Everything you Need to Know and (Possibly) More

jumps out of tumbling

The 2016 Code of Points is far from finalized. Rumour is that we will be returning to 10 counting skills for WAG, to match MAG.

In the end, what will happen to the trend of jumping out of landings?

Mr. Hang on Gymnast #391 reluctantly concedes he’s starting to like them. Just as they are likely to be restricted over the next 4yrs.

I’ve always liked them — when done well. Gabby’s split jump is far better executed than her double tuck 🙂 … but note she still takes a landing deduction after the jump.

Amplitude and split should be specified. No bonus awarded.

The problem with the last Code was too many low, soft stag jumps. In fact, I’d be satisfied if the jump had to be full split with straight legs, over hip height.

There are three alternatives:

1) simple somersault out of a more complex somersault. Love it.

2. “stuck” landings like MAG

Top male gymnasts know how to land safely. The technique used by Kohei Uchimura in his best years — that’s the technique we want to encourage for WAG.

Click PLAY or watch a stuck landing montage on YouTube.

Unfortunately, WAG judging over the past 4yrs has been poor. Superb landings like those are often wrongly deducted. “Chest low” or some such thickheadedness.

Girls who stick sometimes gain no score advantage over those who don’t. How many times has Vanessa Ferrari been burned? Not getting real credit for her excellent landings.

3) lunge step back to presentation.

I still like the lunge step back for WAG. It’s the safest landing (absorbing impact force over time and distance) and is aesthetically pleasing for WAG.

I’m sure some readers will disagree. Feel free to rant in the comments.

LED – LIght Emitting Dudes

Light Emitting Dudes takes a team of freerunners, geared up from head to toe with LED lights, and sets them loose on the streets of Bangkok at night. …

Jason Paul, Shaun Wood, and Anan Anwar

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

Light Emitting Dudes – LED Freerunning from Frank Sauer.

Real life Tron.