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Gabby Perea competed in her first two international meets back in March and won the Gymnix meet in Montreal as well as bars for juniors in Jesolo. Gabby talks about her experience competing for the USA. She has grown a bit over the last year and it is helping her vaulting which she may upgrade this weekend at Secret Classic in preparation for the P&G Championships.
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I find that most coaches don’t know much about the vestibular system even though it’s critical to success in acrobatics sports.
Here’s the second video in Tumbl Trak’s special needs series on training the vestibular system.
… vestibular system … the sensory system that provides the leading contribution about the sense of balance and spatial orientation for the purpose of coordinating movement with balance. …
The brain uses information from the vestibular system in the head and from proprioception throughout the body to understand the body’s dynamics and kinematics (including its position and acceleration) from moment to moment. …
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(via Rec Gymnastics)
If you missed Senior prelims, Bea Gheorghisor posted a good wrap-up – 2016 Euros: Senior Qualifications
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related – British Gymnastics wrap-up
#GymCdnChamps – day 1
1. Quinn Skrupa MB
2. Emma Spence ON (fantastic vault)
3. Jenna Sartoretto ON
4. Juliettes Chapman ON
5. Avery Rosales ON
6. Rachel Grenke AB
full results
You can click through for scores. But this the youngest division has HUGE bonus points which make the actual numbers difficult to compare.
Following the competition I spoke with Canadian National Team Director Dave Brubaker. He was pleased with the quality and depth of young gymnasts across the country. The National Aspire training camps are helping. Plans are to expand that program and better detail the camp curriculum.
Quinn is a teammate of Isabela Onyshko in Brandon, population 46,061. Actually it’s 46,060 as Isabela lives out of town in Minnedosa, population 2,474. 🙂
1. William Émard QC 77.750
2. Anthony Tawfik ON 77.200
3. Jesse Tyndall SK 76.750
4. Chris Kaji BC 75.800
5. Alex Watters NS 75.250
6. Elel Baker ON 75.100
full AA results
Actually, the ranking for this division is combined AA results with physical ability testing. Compare the Combined ranking.
William is still #1.
Canada is in rebuilding mode. Looking at this group for 2020 and 2024. Plus the young seniors, some of whom are right now in NCAA.
#GymCdnChamp 2016
1 Félix Dolci 83.150 Laval-Excellence
2 Yannis Chronopoulos 80.650 Futures Gymnastics Centre
3 Olivier Menezes-Thibault 77.850 Laval-Excellence
4 Evgeny Siminuic 75.750 Futures Gymnastics Centre
5 David Sandro 75.700 Gold Medal Gymnastics Club
6 Félix Blaquières 75.400 Centre Père Sablon
full results
1 Moira Evans 73.800 Champions Gymnastics
2 Bryn Topham 72.750 Calgary Gymnastics Centre
3 Gabrielle Deslauriers 72.375 ASTgym
4 Lora Harter 72.025 Omega Gymnastics
5 Imogen Paterson 71.875 Vancouver Phoenix
5 Abigail Diamond 71.875 Calgary Gymnastics Centre
full results
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AA from Qualification:
1 Gillian Fonteyne 36.100 Calgary Gymnastics Centre
2 Dahlia Solorzano-Caruso 35.900 Galaxy
3 Hope Moxam 35.675 Futures Gymnastics Centre
4 Alix Pierce 35.650 Marian Gymnastics Club
5 Katarina Lozic 35.375 Manjak’s Gymnastics
6 Xuan Patenaude 35.350 Gymnix
full AA results
AA Final goes Friday. Good luck ladies. 🙂
6.4 + 8.6 = 15.0 – 1st in qualification.
Jumps out of double layout dismount.
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She led Beam in Qualifications. 14.733 = Difficulty : 6.000 ; Execution : 8.733
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