Author: Rick Mc

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

Suni ~ Sportswoman of the Year

… Sunisa Lee was named the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Individual Sportswoman of the Year at its Annual Salute to Women in Sports event on October 12 in New York.
 
… The winner was determined by a public vote and finalists were selected based on their athletic performances between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022. …

understanding FIG Parkour

FIG added their version of obstacle course competition as a discipline in 2017.

And called it Parkour. The same named used by the World Freerunning and Parkour Federation.

I would have been happier if FIG had used a different name.

That said, it’s been successful, despite the pandemic.

This well edited video explains the FIG rules.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Ukrainian team to Worlds

Valeriia Osipova won gold in the all-around at the Ukrainian Championships last week. …

Osipova, Kasianenko, Kozlovska, Diana Savelieva and Yelyzaveta Hubareva are on the nominative roster for Worlds and all five took part in the Ukrainian Championships in Kyiv.

The competition ended a day earlier due to Russian missile strikes on Kyiv. …

– on the last day of the competition, they spent eight hours in a bomb shelter, according to another Ukrainian gymnast Daniela Batrona. The day after, the gymnasts spent five hours in the shelter and had to deal with blackouts as the electricity infrastructure across Ukraine had been damaged by the strikes. …

Ukrainians need visas to enter the UK and the UK Consulate in Kyiv is closed due to the war, so they will need to travel to Poland to get their visas. Since all air travel in Ukraine has been suspended, they will have to go to Warsaw by train with two train changes. They will spend the next 12 days in Poland before flying to Liverpool. …

Straddle Tkachev

Gymnasts should split as much as possible.

G.S. George in his book Championship Gymnastics explains why.

Stylistically, I like a late, fast split.