Author: Rick Mc

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

Simone’s triple double

All hail the greatest gymnast ever.

Two tumbling passes that have never been competed by any woman and only rarely done by men.

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https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/1152251438334193664?s=04

MyKayla Skinner interview

The best insight I’ve heard into how MyKayla thinks about the sport.

One of the most superb acrobats in Artistic Gymnastics ever, I believe MyKayla has a real shot at the Olympics. She’s super tough. Durable. And has been incredibly consistent in College.

Click through to The Routine Podcast to hear it.

training ‘curvilinear actions’

In Canada a concept was developed by Good Osborne and Boris Verkhovsky which they called curvilinear actions.

As gymnasts get more and more comfortable with progressions like the ones here they improve on all skills with similar body actions.

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Worlds 2019 draw has been posted

MAG & WAG 93 federations – Stuttgart 4-13 October.

Mary Wright noted that Valeri Liukin (Brazil), Neil Resnick (New Zealand with mixed group 19) and Tom Forster (USA) will all have competitors in subdivision 12.

FIG

 

FIG’s 1st Parkour coach education course

With the adoption of the new discipline of Parkour by the FIG Congress in December 2018, it became necessary to develop coach education programmes also for this discipline. …

Starting from zero, the group was able to develop the programme and the manual – in three languages – for the Parkour Age Group Development and Competition Programme before the end of May and lead the first introduction camp/seminar for this programme in mid-June in Mexico. …

A first event for Parkour among June FIG coach education activities