Category: Gymnastics

Anaya Smith – Vault

Winterland by Rae Meadows

A novel about a Soviet gymnast. Rae Meadows is an adult recreational gymnast.

Soviet Union, 1973: There is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen for the famed USSR gymnastics program. When eight-year-old Anya is selected, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. …

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Moy progressions

Shun Tomizawa is a Japanese coach who worked in Canada. And is currently in Germany.

He has many MAG tutorials on his YouTube channel. Here are a couple of samples.

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Fun fact. As a young coach, we took a team of Americans and Canadians to Netherlands for a friendly international competition. Moy won the AA representing France. He was already excellent at age-16.

Running Arms | Product Video

YES we know there have been Olympians who run with arms straight. Sprinters are pained to watch them. 😀

They’d have been even better vaulters with superior sprint technique.

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impossible Judging scores

Yurchenko 1/1 is out of 9.5 in NCAA.

When a judge deems that vault has no deductions — with this landing — that judge should be reprimanded and lose future assignments.

Lara Mori retired

Tokyo Olympian Lara Mori, age-24, was the 2018 Mediterranean Games champion in the all-around.

Oklahoma upsets #1 Stanford

Game on.

Oklahoma 418.900 – Stanford 413.800

In a year where Stanford could compete as their own nation — and be competitive — they got beat by Oklahoma.

Mark Williams credits his Pommels and H Bar line-ups.