Shaposh / Tkachev drill

Working with a gymnast new to Shaposh recently, I was wishing we had a Quick Flex Bar. This is by far the best way for kids to get started on all counter rotating releases.

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The hands are the only point of force application. Of course that hip action is needed to put more weight on the rail. The equal, opposite and simultaneous reaction force is what generates the counter rotation.

Mikulak – 7 Tkachevs

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(via FloGymnastics)

Alyona Shchennikova – Bars

Wow.

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10 level human pyramid

26th Concurs de Castells in Tarragona in the Catalonia region of Spain.

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Merci Bernard

World’s Montreal 2017 press conference

The world championships, which coincide with the city’s 375th anniversary celebrations, is to be held in a 10,000-seat “theatre” arrangement inside the 55,000-seat Olympic Stadium. …

Nadia Comaneci, Georges St-Pierre help sell world gymnastics championships

Spanish gymnast Irene Matienzo Pietzsch

Stars in a 2011 music video called “Tip Toeing” by The Monomes.

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I saw that linked from a gimnastas.net post listing many more music videos featuring gymnasts.

most decorated Russian individual gymnasts

Excluding the former Soviet Union. Aliya is only #2.

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