Author: Rick Mc

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

introducing backwards Giants

Though I use a number of important progressions for this skill, this is my favourite.

The gymnast can jump as high as they like. The goal is the front support position, not handstand. There is every incentive to shorten the body on the upswing.

A spotter is needed as they do sometimes swing too high to reach front support on their own.

This video is from Bermuda Gymnastics Association a couple of years ago. The gymnast is now Level 7 competing Giants very comfortably.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

working DANCE in the back yard

This chap from the U.K. seems to be channelling that era of bizarre Romanian choreography.  😀

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Full Out 2 – the movie

Full Out 2 – You Got This!

Now available for rental or purchase on Vimeo. 

It might be available elsewhere depending on where you live.

Spencer posted a funny GIF review.

The movie includes Chelsea Werner, a gymnast and model with Down syndrome.

Can the OU women’s gymnastics team win the National Championship without their star athlete Brenna Dowell who leaves the team to try out for the Olympics?

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on Vimeo.

OU’s Allie Stern competes on the vault during a women’s gymnastics competition between the University of Oklahoma and Alabama at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman Okla., Friday, March 15, 2019. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman

meanwhile … at Round Lake

Valentina Rodionenko:

“Round Lake is our home, we’re not going out. What does it matter where we stay – in self-isolation [at home] or at the training center?  …”

Artur Dalaloyan:

“There weren’t any major changes.

The only thing was the increased number of prophylactic measures – to rub hands with alcohol more often. Everywhere – at the entrance to the dorms, at the canteen entrance, at the gym entrance – they put special devices that you can use to disinfect your hands and anything you want, even feet.

At the entrance to Round Lake, they put medics who are checking the body temperature of anyone who enters with contactless thermometers that are now used everywhere …”

Q: Is the training center locked down. Or you can leave it and come back?

A: “You can leave. You just need to put your name down in a journal and when you come back – check your body temperature and tell about how you are feeling. …”

https://twitter.com/LubaBaladzhaeva/status/1242484549172506624

 

Uptown Abs conditioning circuit

Recall this from a few years ago?

MIGHT be time to schedule a few sets / week at home.

Coach Andrew Vetter.

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U.S. Elite Coaches Association letter to Congress

Dear Members of Congress

We are children’s fitness facility coaches, vendors, owners in your districts and states, who directly work with the children in each of your jurisdictions.

In the face of the rapid spread of COVID-19, we are very concerned that our youth sport business industry may not survive this pandemic or the resulting economic downturn. Lawmakers are rightly focused on sending immediate aid and support to our most vulnerable businesses and workers. We are a vulnerable group so vitally important within our community – we hope and pray we are included in the conversation.

We represent the over 200,000 employees of approximately 4,000 children’s fitness facilities …

… we are now fighting for our survival. …

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