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meanwhile, at the Mall
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Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
USAG blunders this weekend
Where to start?
For an organization that already has little trust with membership, communication could not have been much worse at the (otherwise excellent) Men’s Winter Cup in Las Vegas.
Now Tuesday morning and I’m still not 100% sure what happened.
It seems the USA MPC had not documented their World Cup selection system in advance of Winter Cup.
Why, you might ask.
Yet USAG had to earlier put forward nominative entrees for the 4 AA World Cups either Sam or Yul were assigned to all four.
Not many — including Yul’s Mom — knew they were only nominative.
Now — after the Winter Cup — MPC is considering replacing Yul for some of his nominative assignments.
It’s a mess. More self-inflicted wounds for USA Gymnastics.
Click over to Gymnastics-Now for an update through Tuesday, February 25th.
training layout over the Vault table
Many of the best coaches in the world like this drill.
And many do backward layout for Yurchenko.
Personally I’ve never used it. I’m not as much worried about safety of the athlete as a the technical problem of encouraging too high preflight.
I prefer progressions that encourage gymnasts to touch the table as quickly as possible. Low preflight drills.
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Oklahoma, Florida, UCLA, Utah
NQS rankings.
1. Oklahoma Sooners
2. Florida Gators
3. UCLA Bruins
4. Utah Utes
5. LSU Tigers
6. Denver Pioneers
7. Michigan Wolverines
8. Cal Bears
9. Alabama Crimson Tide
10. Georgia Bulldogs
Denver’s Lynnzee Brown is out for the season.
OU’s Maggie Nichols has an ankle injury. Might not be back soon.
Read Spencer’s commentary.
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How some Canadian gymnasts became actors
Several Manjak’s Gymnastics athletes auditioned for roles in the new Family Channel Canada TV show called My Perfect Landing … and got the jobs.
More often gymnasts simply play stunt doubles for actors.
The TV series debuts in Canada on Sunday, March 1st at 11:30 am et/pt. It’s already playing in the UK.
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Grace Glenn – Beam
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Mykayla Skinner – Camp THEN and NOW
Mykayla is happy with the change to Indianapolis from the Ranch.
It’s going in the right direction.
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Nebraska’s new Gym is open
Congratulations.
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Urara Ashikawa – Beam
Ashikawa is the first gymnast to get a second world cup beam win in the 2018-2020 series! One more win and the series is hers.
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Utah 198.075 at UCLA 198.025
Though the judging was absurd, both teams had great performances.
Right now I’d predict UCLA, Utah, Florida and Oklahoma to be fighting it out at Nationals.
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Michigan’s Olivia Karas was impressed.
In addition, we’ve been waiting for this.
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