Author: Rick Mc

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

timeline of new Vaults

Here are SOME of the early performances of new vaults. Don’t consider it definitive.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

unique Trampoline stunts

Kazuki Nakao aspires to be a circus acrobat one day.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CApmhQygH7D/

Courtney McGregor has retired

2016 Olympian and fan favourite Courtney McGregor from New Zealand has decided to hang up the grips.

With NCAA Gymnastics up in the air, Courtney won’t be returning to Boise State University. The uncertainty of the 2020 Olympics happening in 2021 is another factor.

Instead, Courtney will stay home in Christchurch and hopes to continue into Medicine.

Click PLAY or watch a career highlights montage on YouTube.

can you kill COVID-19 with ultraviolet light?

Some Gyms are considering ultraviolet light sanitizing wands for disinfecting Bars, Beams, etc.

At this point, I’d not recommend the technology. 

UV-C works well for purifying liquids. And it’s been used for making food safer for over 50 years.

UV-C light probably kills the new COVID-19 virus IF the light is strong enough, direct enough, and long enough. As I post, however, that’s not yet been scientifically proven.

It did work on MERS and SARS.

But light wands work best on flat, hard surfaces.

UV-C light is dangerous for humans, as well. UV light can cause cancer. Damage eyes. It’s difficult to protect yourself while waving a wand.

NY is testing whether using  powerful ultraviolet lamps can disinfect subways and buses.  In future there might be a way to turn on UV-C lights at night in the Gym to help sanitize.

Companies are working on new ways to disinfect hard surfaces with UV-C light waves.  Robots, for example.

Hospitals and airlines are using the technology.  Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

read more – Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation