Author: Rick Mc

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

R.I.P. Rusty Mitchell

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rusty Mitchell, who coached men’s gymnastics at The University of New Mexico from 1966-99, passed away over the weekend at the age of 80. …

Mitchell’s Lobos won 11 Western Athletic Conference championships out of a possible 18, and he produced 16 NCAA individual champions and 53 All-Americans. …

He was twice selected as Assistant Coach for the U.S. Olympic Men’s Gymnastic Team, Mexico City, (1968) & Munich, Germany, (1972).  …

GoLobos

We believe Rusty was the first to successfully compete Double Back on Floor in the Olympics. 1964 Tokyo.

gymnast T’Yonna Major murdered in mass shooting

This week Orlando Metro Gymnastics is hosting a fundraiser for the family of T’Yonna Major, the 9-year-old girl who was killed in the shooting spree in Pine Hills last week. …

‘An angel on our team’: Gymnastics coach of 9-year-old killed in Orlando shooting spree remembers her

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The rest of the world wonders why the USA cannot reduce the number of children killed by firearms.

using Air Barrels in the Gym

Over the past month I’ve been using a foam cylinder quite a bit with non-competitive classes. It’s FUN and SAFE — so long as the cylinder doesn’t roll the wrong way at the wrong time.

Click PLAY or watch some uses on YouTube.

Cottbus World Cup recap

Olympic gold medallists Artem Dolgopyat (ISR) and Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) and 2022 World champion Artur Davtyan (ARM) hoovered up the titles on men’s Floor Exercise, Still Rings, and Vault, each turning in world class performances to hold off strong competitors from Germany and Iran. …

Without a female World or Olympic champion in finals, notable newcomers, including 2022 World Championships competitor Manila Esposito (ITA) and Kokufugata Azuki (JPN) grabbed golds with reputation-making displays. …

Gymnasts from seven nations snag titles at Cottbus World Cup

Cottbus Apparatus Finals 2

Japan continues to excel on Beam.

Cottbus MAG Apparatus Finals 2

Gymnastics in Bermuda

By site editor Rick McCharles

I’m an appointed, non-voting volunteer on the Bermuda Federation Board. And editor of their website.

On my recent visit to the island paradise 🌴, I added social media:

Subscribe and follow if interested in what’s happening in Bermuda. Things are finally getting back to normal following the pandemic.

And be sure to visit one of the clubs if your travels bring you to the Bermuda Triangle. 😀

Click PLAY or see the Bermuda Gymnastics Association Club on YouTube.

Click PLAY or see the Quality Gymnastics Club on YouTube.

Beam ➙ physics, what physics? 😀

To stay on you MUST keep your centre of gravity over the base of support.

Not Ellie Lazzari, of course. 😀

Shek Wai-Hung – Vault