Category: biomechanics

progressions for “late” drop on Bars

The goal is to keep the centre of mass as far away from the Bar (axis of rotation) on the down swing as possible.

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Handspring ➙ Salto vaults with Flyspring Technique

This is one of the best Handspring forward salto half vaults I’ve ever seen

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Not the most common technique, Haleigh uses what my mentor Boris called “Flyspring” technique. First contact on the table with hips piked. She OPENS her hips while in contact to increase reaction force.

This technique works best for very fast, very powerful gymnasts. They tend to take off closer to the back of the Board and contact the front of the Table. GOAL = get the hands on the table as quickly as possible.

EDGE Replay app for Gymnastics

Chow’s Gymnastics and a few other Clubs are piloting this software already.

  • Slow-motion replay & manual video scrubbing
  • Draw directly on clips & review later
  • customer tagging, sorting, and the ability to favorite clips
  • Synced camera angles (1-view setup also available)

Details on the new app here.

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Olympic Slopestyle

I have no idea what these amazing athletes are doing.

How do they even keep track of so many multiple rotations?

And who wants to land backwards at full speed?

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video analysis in Figure Skating

Seems to me Omega is ahead of Fujitsu in technology.

Jocelyn Moore – Vault

One of the best vaults of the season, so far.

A good example of how video analysis rewarding height, distance and early completion of the twist would be more accurate than human judges.

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FB CURVES 3D GYM Twisting

Real life, real time it can be challenging to analyze complex twisting skills.

In FB CURVES you can slow them down and watch from different angles.

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Watanabe: computers may eventually replace judges

I feel progress has been slow.

I can’t foresee it happening any time soon.

Watanabe, who retained his position as FIG President at last month’s Congress, stresses that the technology is currently assisting judges but did not rule out the idea of it eventually becoming sole arbiter.

“At this stage, it is a judging support system,” Watanabe told insidethegames.

“It may be a substitute for humans in the future. …

Exclusive: FIG President Watanabe says computers may eventually replace judges