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Category: Gymnastics
Fwd Sole Circles are EASY 😀
Fred Richard interview
Though he’s the NCAA champion in his rookie season, I feel many don’t yet know Fred Richard:
- over half a million followers on Tik Tok
- over 100k on Instagram
- wants Michigan to win NCAAs in the next couple of years
- wants to make Worlds 2023 and win medals
- H Bar is his best apparatus right now
- disappointed with USA ranking 5th at Worlds 2022. They should move up in 2023.
- has NIL deals and many opportunities
.. China for the World University Games. This is kind of my warm up for the U.S. Championships but also for me to compare myself against the Chinese who are one of the most competitive countries in men’s gymnastics. So I would like to go there and learn from the Chinese, but also show them who I am.
Then come back and about two weeks later we have U.S. Championships, where I definitely think I can win the competition. …
Inside Gymnastics – FIERCE AND FEARLESS – FRED RICHARD WANTS TO BE TEAM USA’S NEXT STAR
Safer Gymnastics in New Zealand
In 2021 Gymnastics New Zealand was given recommendations from a review.
Here’s where they are at in 2023 at implementing and monitoring that plan.
It’s easy to read. Well presented. But still a work in progress.
Kaylia Nemour 15.350 Bars
This is by far the best routine I’ve seen her HIT so far.
And it’s my favourite routine of 2023. Fewer skills all connected means fewer opportunities for E-score deduction.
Kaylia is a French-Algerian artistic gymnast currently representing Algeria in international competition. Recall that France wouldn’t clear her to compete in major FIG meets until July 2023 — too late to qualify to Worlds 2023.
Cairo Apparatus Finals 2
Beam
Floor
Vault
P Bars
H Bar
Cairo Apparatus Finals 1
Vault
Asia was injured on the landing of her second vault.
Bars
Floor
Pommels
Rings
Yuri Korolev dead at 60
Heart attack.
What a loss.
Montreal 1985 was my first World Championships. For 10 days I videotaped MAG for FIG. Mostly Floor Exercise.
For us Li Ning and Tong Fei were the sensations. But the Soviet team was deep, deep:
Vladimir Artemov
Yuri Korolev
Valentin Mogilny
Yury Balabanov
Aleksei Tikhonkikh
Aleksandr Tumilovich
Korolev won the AA in Montreal as well as at Worlds 1981 Moscow.
A class champion. What a loss.
With a total of 34 individual medals at World Championships, World Cups, and European Championships competitions, Korolyov has more such medals than any other non-Olympian with Valentin Mogilny (17) being the next highest in this sort of medal count.
talking to your young athletes about SPOTTING
Amanda Loudin:
“Talk to your kids about good touch and bad touch and make sure they feel comfortable coming to you if something doesn’t feel right,” she said. “Regularly check in with your kids: Ask them what was good and what was bad about practice and if anything made them feel uncomfortable.” …
… “The highest risk areas are those that allow for one-on-one adult-child interaction, often at the elite level. Those activities that involve body positioning, such as swimming or gymnastics, exacerbate the risk because touching is a part of the training.” …
A word I like to use with kids is creepy. If anything feels creepy to them, it could be a red flag.
The less spotting in your program, the better.
And be cautious HOW you spot skills. For example, spotting on the sides of the body is safer than a sandwich spot front and back.
Gymnastics sleepovers?
When I was a kid, we had Gym sleepovers at my club. Other clubs. And frequently billeted with the families of other gymnasts when away at training camps.
Not to mention the frequent sleepovers I hosted with my own friends.
But in 2023 there are not many unsupervised sleepovers. Good policy.
In recent online and media debates about sleepovers, parents have cited big concerns about letting their children sleep at a friend’s house:
- How much adult supervision will they have?
- Are there guns in the home?
- Is the family COVID vaccinated?
- Are alcohol and drugs sufficiently secure?
- Will other parents take my child’s allergies/health condition seriously?
- Will the kids have access to the internet?
- What other siblings, friends, and adults will be in the home, and do I know them?
- How do I know my child will be safe from abuse?
- Who even are these people?
… There are alternatives to the traditional sleepover where young kids can get some of the freedom and novelty without as much risk:
- Allowing sleepovers with trusted family members or family friends.
- A “sleep-under” (or half-over or late-over): Allowing your child to play late at a friend’s house but come home for bedtime.
- Let them go on daytime outings with friends and their families where you can be present and get to know everyone better.
- Go camping with other families, which gives the kids a sleepover experience but all parents are present for supervision.
source – Lifehacker – Are Sleepovers Finally Over?
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