Category: Gymnastics

hand position on Round-off

A study from 2015 — “Elbow joint variability for different hand positions of the round off in gymnastics” — concluded that what I’ve heard called the classic T position is best and safest for the elbows when doing Round-offs.

I’d agree.

Of course you can quickly find examples of top gymnasts using far different hand positions, especially in MAG. But the classic T is what I teach beginners.

Via Shift Movement Science.

Maile O’Keefe’s amazing Vault

Of hundreds of Yurchenko 1/1s I’ve seen this season, Maile’s is best.

OPEN before landing. WAY before vertical. This is like the top trampolinists.

JORI JACKARD – Bars

Excellent Giant 1/1.

Asian Championships 2023 Singapore

Asian Artistic Championships WAG and MAG will go June 10-18, 2023 in Singapore.  It’s a qualifier to Worlds 2023 in Belgium (Sept 30-Oct 8th).  

Full list of participating nations to be announced April 6th.  

Gymnastics: Singapore will host the Asian Artistic C’ships in June

related – official press release

Luke Whitehouse – Triple Back

Jr Worlds preview – Antalya (TUR)

Despite the earthquake hundreds of miles away, FIG kept the 2nd annual Junior WAG & MAG World Championships in Antalya, Türkiye as scheduled.

29 March-2 April, 2023

Olympic Champion Kyle Shewfelt recently called again for minimum age for Senior women to be raised to 18 — same as for MAG.

If that were to happen, Jr Worlds would be of even greater importance. And safeguards would need to be put in place to reduce instances of over-training of young children.

The first FIG Junior World Championships, held in Györ (HUN) in 2019, heralded future champions, including Tokyo 2020 Olympic Balance Beam champion Guan Chenchen (CHN), two-time World Uneven Bars champion Wei Xiaoyuan (CHN), 2022 World team champion Skye Blakely (USA), Olympic medallists Jennifer Gadirova (GBR) and Kitazono Takeru (JPN), and World medallists Kayla Di Cello (USA), Doi Ryosuke (JPN), and Illia Kovtun (UKR).

Meet the gymnasts who will compete at the Artistic Gymnastics Junior Worlds!

Note that we only have nominative registrations at this point. FINAL teams will no doubt have many changes.