Category: Gymnastics

qualities of a Master Coach

1. Connects with kids.

2. Makes the curriculum work for the kids, not the kids for the curriculum.

5. Focuses on learning goals instead of performance goals and instills this in his/her athletes too.

Jag Gym

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Ultimate Flip Fest Handstand Obstacle Course

Can you match Dave Durante?

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Actually, I don’t like these contests. They encourage bad technique in handstand. I don’t want my kids walking in handstand. Ever.

Walking backwards and sidewards are somewhat not-as-bad.

hair like Aly

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My hair stayed in the best this competition than it ever has before ? I wet the top and underneath my hair and spray lots of hair spray before putting in up. I use lots of bobi pins after putting two hair elastics in a pony and twisting my hair into a bun. Then after adding bobi pins around my bun (careful not to put them in too tight, you'll get a hair headache, especially after having it up for so many hours during a competition). Then add more hair elastics around the bun to make sure that your hair stays in…. I always keep extra hair elastics in my bag to add in if needed. Then when I take my hair out it's so knotted because I have so much hair so I do a conditioning treatment to keep my hair healthy. I have it up in a tight bun majority of the time. When I'm not at the gym it's usually always down to relax my hair and head. ??

A photo posted by @alyraisman on Mar 21, 2016 at 6:05pm PDT

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NCAA Regional Teams Selected

All regionals will be conducted Saturday, April 2, with start times of either 4 or 6 p.m. local time.

NCAA – 2016 NCAA women’s gymnastics championship regional selections

If you are close to one of these sites you really should make the trip. 🙂 Utah, Georgia and Alabama will be crazy loud.

The top two teams at each Regional are seeded highest. Expected to get through. But there are a number of potential upsets ** looming. Stanford, for example, tends to peak for the “playoffs“.

Ann Arbor Regional [University of Michigan]
Auburn
Michigan
Stanford **
Eastern Michigan
Penn State
New Hampshire

Athens Regional [University of Georgia]
LSU
Georgia
Oregon State **
Arizona
George Washington
Michigan State

Michigan State – Gymnastics Headed to NCAA Athens Regional

Regionals

Iowa City Regional [University of Iowa]
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Arkansas **
Iowa
Kent State
Central Michigan

Minneapolis Regional [University of Minnesota]
Florida
Denver
Minnesota **
Missouri
Ohio State
BYU

Salt Lake City Regional [University of Utah]
Utah
UCLA
Washington **
Southern Utah **
Illinois
Utah State

Tuscaloosa Regional [University of Alabama]
Alabama
California
Boise State
Kentucky
West Virginia
Bowling Green

I’m really excited by this one because we’re guaranteed to have a nationals qualifier that we wouldn’t necessarily have expected heading into the season, with Cal, Boise State, and Kentucky (based on what we saw at SECs) in it for that second spot. All three of these teams could get into the high 196s, and Boise State spent much of the early part of the season outscoring Cal. …

Balance Beam Situation

To see the AA and Apparatus specialists invited click over to Gymternet.

1910 Pommel Horse for sale

At west end salvage in Des Moines.

The oldest description of gymnastics on an artificial horse is over 600 years old. It was written by a Renatus Vegetius, who, in his four volume “Overview of the Roman Army”, describes soldiers using a wooden horse for practice. …

In the early 19th century, when Jahn, regarded as the father of gymnastics, was alive, there were three different kinds of horses on the Hasenheide in Berlin …

History of Pommel horse

(via NCAA MEN’S GYMNASTICS ALUMNI)

Jesolo Apparatus Finals

Sr Vault
1 MyKayla Skinner USA 6.3 + 8.900 = 15.200
2 Laurie Hernandez USA 5.8 + 9.050 = 14.850
3 Emily Schild USA 5.8 + 8.600 = 14.400

Sr Bars
1 Ashton Locklear USA 6.5 + 8.750 = 15.250
2 Gabby Douglas USA 6.1 + 8.800 = 14.900
3 Loan His FRA 6.1 + 8.150 = 14.250

Sr Beam
1 Laurie Hernandez USA 6.4 + 8.850 = 15.250
2 Ragan Smith USA 6.3 + 8.900 = 15.200
3 Aly Raisman USA 6.2 + 8.550 = 14.750

BEAM

Carlotta Ferlito said she was very tired before the day due to so much recent competition. After a good routine, she had a terrible fall on Beam dismount. Happily, she was released from hospital and returned home with her parents.

Sr Floor
1 Aly Raisman USA 6.3 + 8.750 = 15.050
2 Ragan Smith USA 6.2 + 8.450 = 14.650
3 Gabby Douglas USA 6.1 + 8.400 = 14.500

Jr Vault
1 Jordan Chiles USA 15.575
2 Martina Maggio ITA 14.050
3 Jade Chrobok CAN 13.875

Jr Bars
1 Gabby Perea USA 6.0 + 8.650 = 14.650
2T Emma Malabuyo USA 5.5 + 8.850 = 14.350
2T Jordan Chiles USA 5.7 + 8.650 = 14.350

Jr Beam
1 Emma Malabuyo USA 6.2 + 8.400 = 14.600
2 Martina Maggio ITA 5.7 + 7.900 = 13.600
3 Helene Schäfer GER 5.3 + 8.200 = 13.500

Jr Floor
1 Trinity Thomas USA 5.8 + 8.350 = 14.150
2 Emma Malabuyo USA 5.5 + 8.100 = 13.600
3 Martina Maggio ITA 5.1 + 8.400 = 13.500

full results

Read the Couch Gymnast report. And Lauren’s LIVE blog.

related – USA sweeps individual event titles at 2016 Jesolo Trophy

Canadian Men’s team named

Tony Smith of Calgary named his seven-man team, including one reserve, for the Olympic qualifier.

Joining Ikeda, Morgan, Payne and Zakutney on the Rio-bound team are Anderson Loran of Saskatoon, Rene Cournoyer of Repentigy, Que., and Hugh Smith of Halifax.

“This is a very different team going to Rio than I was expecting,” said Smith. “It’s been a real ordeal with all the injuries we’ve had, but these guys have stepped up and have improved as a team in many ways.”

“We tend to look on the bright side, but still it’s going to be a difficult challenge to get that Olympic berth.”

Among others, injuries have knocked out five-time world championship veteran Kevin Lytwyn of Stoney Creek, Ont., and most recently Mathieu Csukassy of Montreal who tore a patella tendon on Friday in the team competition.

Zakutney, the 2015 Elite Canada junior all-around champion, was slated to compete at the Pacific Rim Championships in April, but now finds himself gearing up for the Olympic qualifier in what will be the biggest competition of his career.

“I’m very excited,” said Zakutney. “I wasn’t focusing on the Olympic qualification event at all since I had already been picked for the Pacific Rim event, but now I feel more motivated than ever. I just want to get back to the training gym and work even harder.”

The Olympic qualification meet for artistic gymnastics will take place April 16-18.?

Gymnastics Canada

Ken Ikeda
Ken Ikeda

Rene had a fluke fall from Rings when a grip broke – keeping him out of UCIC – but is expected to be ready for Rio.

UCIC BIG SHOW Apparatus Finals

The International Friendly in Calgary, Canada.

Floor
1. Eddie Penev USA 6.70 – 15.475
2. Paul Ruggeri USA 6.70 – 15.375
3. Jile Mu CHN 6.60 – 15.100

Pommels
1. Marvin Kimble USA 6.70 – 14.075
2. Huanzhang Jin CHN 5.60 – 13.350
3. Jackson Payne CAN 6.70 – 13.125

Rings
1. CJ Maestas USA 6.70 – 15.475
2. Scott Morgan CAN 6.50 – 14.975
3. Marvin Kimble USA 6.30 – 14.900

Click PLAY or watch Scott Morgan on YouTube.

Vault
1. Eddie Penev USA 5.80 – 15.125 (one vault)
2. Peng Wang CHN 6.00 – 15.050
3T Jile Mu CHN 5.20 – 14.500
3T Kiwan Watts USA 5.20 – 14.500

P Bars
1. Marvin Kimble USA 6.00 – 15.175
2. Ken Ikeda CAN 6.00 – 15.075
3. Paul Ruggeri USA – 6.30 14.975

Click PLAY or Marvin’s gold medal set on YouTube. His routine includes the very difficult Richards.

H Bar
1. Marvin Kimble USA 6.60 – 14.575
2. Paul Ruggeri USA 6.30 – 14.100
3. Sam Zakutney CAN 5.70 – 13.850
full results

A bit of a disaster. Only 2/6 finalists stayed on H Bar.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDKVJrmnOg1/

Bretschneider wins in Stuttgart

Andreas Bretschneider am Reck1. Andreas Bretschneider 87.132
2. Danell Leyva 86.631
3. Nikolai Kuksenkov 86.432

Germany’s Andreas Bretschneider won the men’s all-around title at the DTB World Cup on Sunday, giving the host nation a double win after Sophie Scheder’s triumph on Saturday.

Bretschneider topped American Danell Leyva and Russia’s Nikolai Kuksenkov in a fall-filled competition that saw the lead change hands many times. The packed crowd at the Porsche Arena was firmly behind Bretschneider and Olympic star Marcel Nguyen.

AMANDA TURNER

Both AA winners take home 16,000 Swiss francs (14,600 euros).

Kensley Behel was there. Read her LIVE blog.