Author: Rick Mc

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

Flying Giant on P Bars

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Dos Santos compilation

American gymnasts.

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to IMPROVE performance, get better sleep

Christie Aschwanden wrote a book on recovery. She concluded that improving sleep is the best way to enhance recovery from training.

Nick Ruddock interviewed Nick Littlehales, a sport sleep coach. He literally wrote the book on sleep.

Learn more …

sportsleepcoach.com

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Yazaira Cabrera-Dávila interview

Yazaira Cabrera-Dávila, the women’s technical director for the Puerto Rico Gymnastics Federation (FPG), is also a judge.

Dvora Meyers posted a good interview:

DM: There was so much talk about the new Fujitsu judging system that was being tested in Stuttgart. Do you think gymnastics will ever fully move away from human judging or will we always need people to help determine rankings in the sport?

YCD: I like the idea of computers assisting with judging. There are components of the evaluation that would be more accurate with sensors; angles, height, precision of twisting; elbow, knee and foot extension.

I think that there should be a combination of both like they use in halfpipe snowboarding, for example.

On balance beam and floor exercise, the artistic presentation is something that I do not think a computer is able to evaluate, at least [not] right now.

Gymnastics Judges Are Fans Too

Michaela DePrince – ballet dancer

Michaela DePrince is a Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer.

With her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, Michaela authored the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina.

4 of the best Shewfelt / Amanars

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