Author: Rick Mc

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

GBR Men training as coaches

Members of the senior and junior men’s artistic squad have begun their coaching journey, in a bid to inspire the next generation of budding gymnasts.

Gymnasts have recently undertaken the latest practical and theory sessions of their UKCC Level 1 Men’s Artistic Coaching Award at Lilleshall National Sports Centre …

The course has been broken down into bitesize chunks to fit around the gymnasts training camps when at Lilleshall. The seniors began their course last November, the juniors started theirs in January, and final assessments are due to take place in August. …

On Monday evening, senior gymnasts including Adam Tobin, Dom Cunningham, Donell Osbourne, Jamie Lewis, Joe Cemlyn-Jones, Joe Fraser, Joshua Nathan, Nile Wilson and Pavel Karnejenko continued the theory part of the course.

Then on Tuesday and Wednesday evening, following training, junior gymnasts Jake Johnson, Korben Fellows, Matthew Boardman, Raekwon Baptiste, Sam Mostowfi and Sam Ghinn took part in the practical part of the course. …

British Gymnastics

It’s not uncommon for nations to fast-track National Team members as coaches and judges.

Simone Biles – 60 points AA

1. Simone Biles – 60.000
2. Riley McCusker – 57.900
3. Grace McCallum – 57.700
4. Kara Eaker – 56.800
5. Leanne Wong – 56.650
6. Morgan Hurd – 56.500
7. Aleah Finnegan – 55.500
8. Faith Torrez – 55.250

Full results.

U.S. team to Pan Am Games

The 2019 Pan American Games begins July 24 in Lima, Peru.

Pending approval by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the members of the team are Kara Eaker of Grain Valley, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express; Aleah Finnegan of Lee’s Summit, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express; Morgan Hurd of Middletown, Del./First State Gymnastics; Riley McCusker of Brielle, N.J./MG Elite; Leanne Wong of Overland Park, Kansas/Great American Gymnastics Express; and Shilese Jones of Westerville, Ohio/Future Gymnastics Academy, non-traveling alternate.

USAG

On girls growing up …

Wingmom is Meg Hurst and Kate Maxwell.

They posted some advice for Moms to teach their daughters.

Click through to see the list.

Kuznetsova – backward layout punch forward walkover

Yevgeniya Kuznetsova was a Russian Olympian in 1996.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. (second video)

Nile Wilson #BottleCapChallenge

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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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