Category: Gymnastics

#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. …

Black Will Fight For Fourth National All-Around Title

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:

coach Maggie Haney
coach Maggie Haney

Young Gymnast Needs to Navigate Deep U.S. Pool to Reach Rio

via @GymCastic

Ellie Black – Beam

6.20 difficulty | 14.700 final score

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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

At #GymCdnChamps 2016. Congratulations.

Team Nova Scotia comes up big on day 2 of the 2016 Global News Canadian Championships in Artistic and Trampoline Gymnastics

Kenzo – Yurchenko 3 1/2

I wouldn’t want to be Kenzo’s knees.

via Gymternet Clan

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.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Rec Gymnastics)

European Team Championships

If you missed Senior prelims, Bea Gheorghisor posted a good wrap-up – 2016 Euros: Senior Qualifications

Ellie Downie

Click PLAY or watch a UEG edit on YouTube.

related – British Gymnastics wrap-up

Quinn Skrupa leads High Performance Novice

#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. 🙂

William Émard wins Men’s Jr #GymCdnChamp

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.