Whittenburg & Mikulak Top 2 at Day 1 of U.S. Men’s Gymnastics Championships
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related – Whittenburg Holds Slight Lead After Competitive First Day In Hartford
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Mate’Bros – train H Bar in the dark
Elena EREMINA wins Jr Europeans
https://twitter.com/russiangymnast/status/738808309789134848
Click PLAY or watch her FX on YouTube. 13.700 (Difficulty : 5.200 ; Execution : 8.500).
#GymCdnChamps Finals preview
Lauren Hopkins:
2012 Olympian Ellie Black, the 20-year-old from Halifax who has lead her Canadian team so strongly all quad, will compete in tonight’s all-around final at the 2016 Canadian Championships, hoping to earn her fourth national title in a row. …
The competition will be tough this year, however, with 17-year-old Isabela Onyshko right on her heels. Onyshko has been on fire all year, upgrading and consistently hitting routines to win the senior titles at Elite Canada and Gymnix early on before also snagging the silver medal at the Stuttgart World Cup. …
Finals go Friday night.
Ellie is not close to 100%. She was super happy to finish the prelims meet so successfully.
Rose-Laying Woo is back to about 90% healthy. She’s had a sore back for months. Doctor says she should be completely pain free in about a month.
All eyes will be Shallon Olsen, the favourite on Vault. She’s been competing DTY for years. Hoping to upgrade in this Final.
Laurie Hernandez profile
There’s an excellent piece in the NY Times:
Young Gymnast Needs to Navigate Deep U.S. Pool to Reach Rio
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Ellie Black – Beam
6.20 difficulty | 14.700 final score
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Impressive considering Ellie had not put in all the routines she’d wanted in advance of Nationals due to a minor ankle injury.
Nova Scotia men win Open
Kenzo – Yurchenko 3 1/2
I wouldn’t want to be Kenzo’s knees.
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Gabby Perea interview
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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Gymnastics and the vestibular system
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)
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