Author: Rick Mc

An NCCP Trampoline Level 3 coaching course is scheduled in August at Shasta Trampoline in New Westminster, B.C.

All registrations must be done online.

This course is very rarely offered course is happening this summer in British Colombia.

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July 20-23, 2009 at Delta Gymnastics in Vancouver, B.C. is hosting a Level 3 Technical in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.

The story is fake.

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Remember this scandal, quickly squashed?

The demi-God Russian leader Vladimir Putin and a former Olympic Rhythmic star?

A glamorous Olympic gymnast and MP linked last year to Vladimir Putin has given birth to a son.

Alina Kabaeva, 26, is refusing to name the father but one Moscow newspaper is speculating that far from anyone high in Kremlin politics, it could be on-loan Arsenal defender Philippe Senderos. …

Daily Mail – Russian Olympic gymnast and MP Alina Kabaeva gives birth after allegations of affair with Putin

UPDATE: ALL GYMNASTICS, ALL THE TIME points out that Kabaeva is, yet again, a Victim of a Rumor.

Why, oh why, do I believe what I read in newspaper websites?

A great choice.

… The Wilma Rudolf Courage Award is awarded to women who have shown extraordinary courage over the course of their sporting careers, and who have demonstrated strength and determination in overcoming adversity. The award was first given to Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1996. …

FIG

(via Inside Gymnastics on Facebook)

Did you miss the CBS coverage when it aired a couple of weeks after the College Gymnastics Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska?

Here it is.

Click PLAY or watch Part 1 on YouTube.

2009 NCAA Super Six Part 2
2009 NCAA Super Six Part 3
2009 NCAA Super Six Part 4
2009 NCAA Super Six Part 5
2009 NCAA Super Six Part 6
2009 NCAA Super Six Part 7
2009 NCAA Super Six Part 8
2009 NCAA Super Six Part 9

A fantastic win for Georgia, their 5th in series.

… There are a few cute bloopers at the end of Part 9.

The always effective Tammy Biggs gives advice on what to do for girls who under rotate forward aerial.

Click PLAY or watch a Gymnastics Minute

Click PLAY or watch the video on Tom Beach’s GymSmarts blog.

Follow GymSmarts on twitter at @gymsmarts
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The Gymnastics Minute is a new series of free introductory video tips produced by GymSmarts.

The Chalk Bucket Gymnastics Community has had a good thread going on Facebook with comments relating to one of Rik Feeney’s articles called Get A Grip On Your Rip (PDF).

Dale Russell recommended a product that I like too:

The English Bulldog Neoprene Wristband is designed to protect the wrist from rips and cuts caused by grips. The English Bulldog Neoprene Wristband is constructed of firm neoprene rubber to provide moderate support for the wrist without obstructing the hand. English Bulldog Neoprene Wristbands are available in three sizes (S, M, L).

CALL 1-800-877-5294.
US$9.00/pair

United Athletic

For wrist rips that do not heal, the best strategy is to put vasoline under a neoprene wrist band to reduce friction. On top can be grips alone. Or a cloth wrist band with grips.

It’s not foolproof. But wrist bleeding is reduced for most gymnasts.

Update: A similar product is available from US Glove. Thanks Greg.

This Canadian gymnastics coaching course is rarely offered.

We held the last one in my Province May 2008 in Calgary.

If you need it, email Cynthia at Gymnastics Alberta to add your name to the growing list of candidates. When we have enough names, we can schedule that course.

cbringas AT abgym.ab.ca

This same course is scheduled for end of June in Charlottetown, PEI, by the way.

On Facebook, Inside Gymnastics commented on another rule change by the International Gymnastics Federation.

… a raising of the age limit for artistic male gymnastics. Citing the International Olympic Committee’s Youth Olympic Games rules and following “heated debate,” the FIG voted to raise men’s age limits to 18 for senior competition (i.e. World/Olympic), starting January 1, 2013. (The beginning of the next Olympic cycle.) …

I do like the very long lead time on changes like this.

But – I’m confused – does this mean the Men’s age requirement is different than the Women’s age requirement?

If so, that would mean that male gymnasts need even more protection from over-training at a young age than female gymnasts.

Anyone in the sport can tell you that coaches push far less in Men’s gymnastics as there is far less rush to peak for the career.

This looks like yet another bad decision by FIG.

Yet one that will have very little effect in the real world as most Seniors competing internationally are of that age now.

But there are exceptions:

… Multiple past men’s World and Olympic stars have been under 18, notably Dmitri Bilozertchev, who won Worlds at just 16 in 1983 with what many consider the most dominant performance in history, and China’s Feng Jing, the youngest-ever men’s World champ in 2001. (Also 16, Feng was several months younger than the December-born Bilozertchev.) …

Feng Jing did not make the 2008 Olympic team. But he just won the Chinese National Championships.

The original FIG Council Official News blurb dated May 26, 2009.

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Two-time Olympian Morgan Hamm of Waukesha, Wis., and Megan C. Shemanske were married on Saturday, May 23, at the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center in Brookfield, Wis. Paul Hamm, 2004 Olympic all-around champion and Morgan’s twin, was the best man. …

Also in attendance were 2008 assistant Olympic coach Miles Avery, who coached both Hamms, and his wife, and gymnasts and coach Andre Kan from Swiss Turners Gymnastics Academy.

The couple will live in Chicago, where M. Hamm is interviewing to work in the stock market.

USAG

MorganHamm.com

(via Inside Gymnastics on Facebook)