Flip Smart Matting System

With new additions to the system, use the Carolina Gym Supply Flip Smart Matting System for any number of tumbling and somersaulting, drills, bar drills (fly aways and giants), and even vault timer drills!

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The one I need most is the Flyaway setup.

introducing pirouettes

Here’s an excellent drill for beginners as they learn to move their centre of mass over the support arm (base of support) before starting to learn pirouettes and reverse pirouettes.

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using Gainer to teach 1/1-out

Tony Retrosi.

The Gainer simulates the second salto.

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Pirouette Trainer mat

Mancino developed this product with Chris Zimmerman of Ricochets Gymnastics in Hatboro, PA.

Quarter twist drills require the gymnast to commit to the weight transfer on the pivot hand. I’d use this mat every day.  If I didn’t have one, I’d improvise with something else.

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Tkachev on the Quick Flex Bar

Shaposh and Tkachev are two of the best uses for the soft trampoline rail.

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It’s adjustable for any width of tumbling trampoline.

details – Quick Flex Bar

British Columbia Gymnastics history

One anecdote from the great Willy Weiler who was with the Canadian Military:

In the spring of 1963, after arriving as champion of the Pan Am Games in Sao Paulo, I was transferred to Chilliwack, BC.

The base had no equipment for me to train on for the upcoming 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. I traveled 3 times a week to UBC to train …

So that I could do more practicing at the base, I purchased a horizontal bar and built the uprights for it. My previous experience in Rastatt, Germany of digging a 4 foot trench outside the gym and padding it with sawdust came in handy. …

That comes from a document celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Gymnastics B.C.

History buffs can download a copy for themselves:

British Columbia Gymnastics history (pdf)

Kohei to focus on Horizontal Bar

NHK has learned that two-time Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Uchimura Kohei is aiming to qualify for the Tokyo Games in just one event — the horizontal bar. …

… the 31-year-old ace has struggled with ankle and shoulder injuries since the Rio Games. …

NHK

double Kovacs – caught

This was in 2019.

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