Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
You can email a message to your athletes, parents or staff directly from the app.
It costs about $23. Here are the Apple options.
Category: Gymnastics
amputee acrobat Kate Foster
Kate, a
formercurrent gymnast and CrossFitter, was told by doctors that she probably would’ve died from the disease if she hadn’t been in such good physical shape. It was only a year before she returned to the CrossFit gym …
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… What’s your problem, again?
coach Gerrit Beltman to Canada
Gerrit, age-54, is moving to my city, the new Technical Director at Calgary Gymnastics Centre.
There’s a long back story regarding his unexpected, much criticized, dismissal as Women’s Head Coach of Belgium in 2008
(via GYMpower)
WAG gymnastics judges – GymSymbol.com
WAG judges have probably seen this program in the past.
It’s been offering Code of Points help for over 10 years. Especially good for memorizing FIG shorthand script.
Browse every skill in the Code.
Whenever you have a few spare minutes, review using the QUIZ feature.
Right now the app is only available on IOS.
It’s a one-time purchase (about U.S. $6.99) with no in-app-purchases and no subscription. It’s ad-free.
But the website gymsymbol.com links to additional free resources and videos.
4th of July Gymnastics Parades
In recent years I’ve been coaching a gymnastics parade on the 4th.
Sadly, I missed it this year.
All the best to the many gymnasts in parades yesterday. A special shout out to Pioneer Gymnastics. This pic was posted on their Facebook page.
gymnastics – the less spotting, the better
The advantages of spotting are highly over-rated.
From Dr. Bill Sands, research on emergency rescue spotting:
… the act of rescue spotting is at the very least extraordinarily difficult. The fact that coaches can perform a rescue spot at all is astonishing (and I have seen some spectacular saves, even been the recipient of a few from my coach a million years ago).
However, I believe that the coach, athlete, parent, and legal communities must come to understand the inherent limitations that constrain rescue spotting. Not only is not spotting a fail-safe, sometimes hand spotting of an unplanned fall effectively is IMPOSSIBLE. The impossibility of some hand spotting should be communicated to coaches, athletes, and parents so that all understand the physical and biological constraints on hand spotting and no one expects more from the spotter than the spotter can deliver.
My philosophy is: The Less Spotting, The Better.
Very few spotters are as good as Don Eckert, technical director of Woodward West Gymnastics Camp, here coaching at Stars Gymnastics in Colorado Springs:
Click PLAY or watch an emergency rescue spot on YouTube.
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Interesting trivia in North American English terminology:
Hartley Price: Coined the Term “Spotting.” In 1930 Price, recently graduated from Springfield College, was hired to coach at the University of Illinois. He was an excellent recruiter and gathered together some of best gymnasts in the country. He founded the University of Illinois Gymkana which put on shows to raise money and found ways for his gymnasts to earn money to pay their tuition.
“Doc” wasn’t much of a coach. His theory was, “Put the best gymnasts in the country together in the same gymnasium and they’ll coach each other.” That they did, winning five NCAA team titles in eighteen years.
He tried to emphasized safety by painting a large white circles (4′ in diameter) on the gymnasium’s walls. He called these “spots.” When his gymnasts saw the spot, they were supposed to think safety and look for those who could assist them through one element or another. Such assistance became known as “spotting.”
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