Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Handstand Pirouette progressions

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Trinity 2x Honda Winner

I can’t argue awarding Trinity Thomas this trophy two years in a row. Ahead of two Olympic champions in 2023.

Looks at the numbers. Trinity’s without question on the All-star All-time team.

social media harming mental health

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It’s hard to watch.

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CAN Sports Minister confirms “Investigation”

Finally.

I’m amazed it’s taken so long to get this confirmation of an investigation, if not an Inquiry.

Elite sport is the best place to start. No doubt resulting regulations will be applied to all competitive sport.

judging E-score on your phone

The Elevien app looks quite good. Simple. Similar to judging diving.

Click through to watch VIDEOS of how it worked.

Andrew Tombs (Vice President of FIG MAG Technical Committee and Executive Director of Sport, British Gymnastics), Tom Thingvold (Vice President of the European Gymnastics Federation) and Nikolaos Provias (Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee Member, European Gymnastics Federation) used Elevien app to test our real-time judging feature on a high-scale competition. …

VIDEO: Elevien real-time scoring tested at the European Gymnastics Championship 2023

I’m wondering whether we’ll soon have a Gymnastics Judging AI program telling us the final score. 😀

1/1 twisting Dive Roll

These excellent skills have disappeared from Men’s Gymnastics.

Too bad.

The Storror Parkour group from the U.K. use them a lot in their videos.

(I never mastered the thing, myself.)

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Lia-Monica Fontaine tumbling

Lia-Monica Fontaine trains at WimGym. She was Canadian Novice Champion in 2022.

Remember the name.

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Hashimoto Daiki wins All Japan. Again.

The Olympic Champion competed despite suffering a lower-back stress fracture and twisted right ankle.

He didn’t need to compete as he’d already qualified for the World Championships in Antwerp from 30 September to 8 October.

Recall Kohei won this meet 10 times in a row from 2008 to 2017.

Bars – Porcupine Pad

Andrew Vetter really likes the NEW Porcupine Bar Pad from Tumbl Trak.

It gives gives feedback to gymnasts, helping them learn where how close to the Bar they actually are. It was developed by Brett Wargo.

I’d need 2 or 3 so it could be used for Straddle Giants, as well.

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