TUANH DAM posted an excellent retrospective on the head coach of UCLA who has won 6 NCAA team championships since 1997.
Gymnastics coach Valorie Kondos Field shapes more than just routines
Category: Gymnastics
Sam Oldham training in Tokyo
Sam suffered a terrible ankle injury on Vault at Commonwealth Games. But he’s back and in contention for the British Olympic Team.
Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.
new – MyUSAGym app
USAG has just announced a free app for Apple devices. In 2016, the app will have live scoring from all of USA Gymnastics premier events, as well as many invitationals and Junior Olympic championship events for men’s and women’s gymnastics. Also USAG news.
see it on the App Store
If you don’t want to use an Apple app, a website will provide scores.
25th Anniversary International Gymnix
This weekend in snowy Montreal. Could this be the best Gymnix competition ever? 🙂
International Gymnix Preview and Roster
‘Smart Rings’ at Jr Europeans
Great news. Artistic Gymnastics judging will finally include a truly objective component.
‘Smart Rings’ is a project by InnoSportLab with automatically measures the time for hold elements on Rings. As reported earlier the Smart Ring was tested at the 2015 European Championships in Montpellier. Later the system was successfully tested as an integrated part of a 4 way competition between BEL, NED, SUI and ROU.
In light of the positive tests, the UEG Men’s Technical Committee has decided to put the system in action, as an official part of the scoring at the upcoming European Championship for Juniors in Bern, SUI. The system will be managed by two appointed judges who will control the input based on agreed methodology.
The Men’s Technical Committee thanks the company InnoSportLab (NED), and the Apparatus supplier Janssen-Fritsen, for the close cooperation. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. The demo shown is not perfect, but it gives you an idea how it works.
Zou Kai is back
Though he’s not competed since 2014, the veteran is listed to compete the Doha World Cup.
With a total of five gold medals and one bronze, Zou currently holds the record for most Olympic gold medals won by any Chinese athlete in Olympic history, and is tied for the record of most medals won overall. …
Zou Kai, a Sichuan native, auctioned off one of his Olympic gold medals in 2008, donating all proceeds to fund relief efforts in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Thanks Ono.
NCAA Power Rankings Week 8
These are not any kind official rankings, but rather the stories, people, topics and/or events of interest from last week according to MCSMaria. 🙂
# 1 LSU at Florida – Florida’s home scoring benefits the visiting team, LSU
# 2 Oklahoma meet commentary by Kelly Garrison
# 3 OSU’s Maddie Gardiner
# 4 Epic Beam Saves
# 5 OSU’s Risa Perez
# 6 Denver’s Julia Ross
# 7 Push to the Post Season
NCAA Power Rankings Week 8
Click through for the details. 🙂
Here are those epic Beam saves.
Click PLAY or watch Nicki Shapiro on twitter.
Click PLAY or watch Risa Perez on Facebook.
Rings strength sequence
Simone Biles – Muscle Beach
California, baby. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on twitter.
crop tops for Gymnastics training
In some parts of the world – Australia, for example – separates are more popular than leotards for training.
But in North America they are the exception, not the norm. Crop tops are worn on very hot days in a few Gyms, for the most part.
Chalk Bucket has a thread on this topic right now. Comparing club policies.
Even odder for those in the general public not familiar with Gymnastics training is the tradition in Men’s Gymnastics of training shirtless.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 