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Category: falling & landing
2021 EU STICKS compilation
NOTE that backward salto landings typically result in chest position in a range between horizontal and 45%.
That’s mechanical, medically and physically a good way to absorb those huge impact forces.
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Allan Bower – Vault
train saltos UP to high, soft mats
Technique developed allows gymnasts to stretch fully — for safest possible landings — when the high mats are removed.
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Russian Team stick competition
on SAFER Landings
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Emily Bischoff:
… Teaching our athletes to land correctly is one thing coaches can control in terms of injury prevention, whether it be to lessen the load on tendons and ligaments to prevent overuse injuries, or to minimize the risk of fluke injuries …
… the force upon landing be dissipated throughout as much of the body as much as possible …
… feet around shoulder width apart, which widens the base of support over which force is exerted. Knees should be in flexion (bent), tracking over the toes …
Promoting Safety in Gymnastics: Landings
gymnasts back competing
Derrian Gobourne. We’re happy to be back.
I’m feeling rotten for all those athletes having to watch the fun. Some locked out of the Gym.
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Ellie Black – legs conditioning
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Kohei – 2014 Floor
I’d argue Kohei Uchimura singled handedly reinvented how male gymnasts land.
Easily the best in the world in his prime, many emulated Kohei’s exaggerated technique.
I love it as he turned the science of safely reducing huge impact forces to zero into an art form.
At the same time WAG was foolishly deducting low chest position. Dangerous!
Of his many stuck routines over many years, Blythe chose this as one of her decade-defining routines.
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NCAA WAG highest surgery incidence rate
Women’s gymnastics, men’s football, and men’s and women’s basketball are NCAA sports with an elevated risk of injury requiring of surgery.
The results from this study can guide the NCAA and providers regarding which sports should be the focus of future research, new injury prevention strategies, and healthcare personnel allocation during events.
The Physician and Sportsmedicine
Surgery rates among 25 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sports from 2005-14.
ACL tears most likely to stop return to sport.
We’ve got to do more to protect knees.
