After 20 years as Australia’s National Coach of Women’s Artistic Gymnastics, Ms Peggy Liddick, will change course and not seek to renew her current contract with Gymnastics Australia, which finishes at the end of the year. …
“Now is the right time for me to step aside, both personally and professionally. It’s the start of the new Olympic cycle, my successor will have almost four years to prepare the Women’s Team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and I will do my utmost to assist in a smooth transition,” Ms Liddick said.
… the process to recruit a new national coach for women’s artistic gymnastics was underway and was scheduled to be concluded by the end of March next year.
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choreographer Dominic Zito
Dominic Zito has been choreographing gymnastics routines since he was 13. Since 2013, the 34-year-old has been the official choreographer for the U.S. women’s national team. …
Read the IG interview.
British gymnasts deliver Christmas presents
Max – alongside fellow elite gymnasts Brinn Bevan, Jay Thompson and Reiss Beckford – joined Tory MP Stephen Metcalfe to meet youngsters at Basildon Hospital’s children’s wards.
Gymnastics coach Scott Hann and Roy Short, chairman of the South Essex Gymnastics Club, also took part …
Utah’s 12 Days of Christmas
The Utes have short interview videos posted.
Click PLAY or watch Mykayla Skinner on Facebook.
As always Utah’s social media is second to none.
WATCH a team promo on Facebook.
“Never Give Up”
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook. 🙂
Year End Awards
Fabian Hambüchen was named sportsman of the year following a highly successful Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The 29-year-old, who retried at the end of the Rio Games, won his first Olympic gold medal on the horizontal bar having collected silver and bronze at the last two Olympics in London and Beijing. …
Zoltan Jordanov, coach of Giulia Steingruber, was awarded the ‘Swiss Olympic Lifetime Coach Award‘. As well as Coach of the Year. He’s retiring.
Max Whitlock did not win BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016. That went to Andy Murray.
Simone Biles was named Overseas Sports Personality of the Year.
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Gymneo coaching tutorials – forward handspring
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49 minutes:
Video 1: Overview of the training on the front handspring on floor
Video 2: Technical analysis
Video 3: Prerequisites
Video 4: Specific Physical Preparation
Video 5: Pedagogical analysis – 32 drills for teaching the front handspring
Video 6: Spotting
Gymneo, out of France, is the best coach education subscription service, in my opinion. I’ve been a member for over 4 years. (Before they added English language content.)
Cost is €199 or $211 / year.
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Precision Professionals
Chellsie Memmel, Molly Shawen, Dr. Alison Arnold, and Kristen Maloney have joined Precision as clinicians.
Nicole Langevin:
“Chellsie will be coming in as a judge for our newest service, My Gym Judge. She just finished a very successful series, “Judges’ Corner,” on FloGymnastics, so we are excited for her to have the opportunity to continue to reach more athletes, coaches, and parents.
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Toni-Ann – Beam mount series
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BOLL2M5gaDQ/
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