Author: Rick Mc

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

R.I.P coach Eugene Galperin

Brad Peters:

It is with great sadness to say that we have lost the greatest gymnastics coach, technician , mentor of our time.

He made a huge impact on all of us in this sport, world wide.

From the Soviet Union, Canada, Korea, USA and other countries his techniques and training methods created Olympic Gold medalist Kyle Shewfelt and Olympic Team members Brad Peters, Lorne Bobkin and a long long list of highly successful coaches who studied his methods.

He was so passionate and was also a wonderful human being who cared about the well being of his athletes first above everything.

I will miss him.

He will be missed.

Thank you Eugene for everything you gave to us.

Click PLAY or watch a 2016 tribute on YouTube.

strength hold on … Pommels?

Olympic Rings Champ Eleftherios Petrounias.

The rest of the montage is great too.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

College Gymnastics … looms

Fingers crossed.

Spencer tried to piece together what’s happening starting this week:

WHAT EVEN IS THIS SEASON?

With almost no direction from NCAA, every team is doing their own thing.

Good luck with that.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Oleg Verniaiev provisionally suspended

We don’t know why.

Gymnovosti has been following the story.

Ty-La Morris at Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics

Some good news.

Reuters did a major feature and photo essay on young Ty-La Morris.

Raw talent met opportunity two years ago when Ty-La, who is now 13, began classes at the Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation, which offers free and discounted classes for children in Detroit and in New York – and is now fighting to serve hundreds of students amid the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Reuters

MyKayla Skinner is funny

UPDATE – After I posted this, MyKayla announced she had gotten COVID from her husband. And also has pneumonia. Get well soon.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Paul Ruggeri gets the vaccine

Paul’s a nursing student sometimes assigned to COVID wards.

Following the first dose, he had some soreness next day. And some other side effects. Slept most of the day.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

on ‘robotic’ dance

Fact is robots are catching up to Simone when it comes to acrobatics.

And some robots can dance. 😀

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.