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Team Nagornyy vs Team Belyavskiy.
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Category: falling & landing
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.
Chris Silcox montage
Chris is a stuntman and actor living in L.A.
He doubled Tom Holland for Spider-Man Homecoming and Far From Home.
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Parkour competition online
FIG has been running a virtual Parkour competition.
No need to travel to compete.
Parkour athletes are most expert at falling and landing safely.
Here are some video highlights.
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More videos.
Defying Gravity – part 4/6
You need YouTube Premium to watch the episodes 3-6.
My favourite episode of the first four.
I love seeing Grace and Jade in the Gym. Best interviews I’ve seen, so far.
Vault is the featured apparatus. They did not hold back on the terrible truth that competition landings on this event are very, very dangerous. Ellie Black and others were interviewed on injuries.
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I don’t understand why FIG has never tried to improve vault landing mats.
Sandeep Kumar Pal is paralyzed
“C4-5 fracture-dislocation with quadriplegia,” is how the doctors first described his injury. …
… A month after he had won his medal at the Khelo India games, he had joined the national camp in New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Stadium. …
“I must have done it over a thousand times in my life. Even on the day I got injured, I performed it (Double Back on FX) three times cleanly,” he recalls. The fourth time though, he lost control. “My mind went blank at the top of the jump. …
How one fall turned gymnast Sandeep Kumar Pal’s life upside down
After months of rehab, he’s still regaining movement.
(via Rocker Gymnastics)
