Suni Lee and Melora Hardin Eliminated in Semifinal Round Ahead of Season 30 Finale
Too bad. I thought Suni’s performance this week was one of her best.
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Category: Gymnastics
Maria Ceplinschi (ROU) – Floor
One of the NEXT generation Romanians. I’d love to see that nation qualify a full team to Paris.
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Craziest H Bar releases
Circus in Senegal
A heartwarming story.
Senegal’s only circus troupe, Sencirk, was founded by former child beggar Modou Touré, who now wants to help others in a similar position …
He ran away to Senegal’s capital, Dakar, where he lived on the streets for years before finding refuge at a shelter. One day, two Swedish circus performers came to teach the children acrobatics …
He trained in Sweden for three months and toured with professional circus troupes around the world, before setting up the Sencirk tent in Dakar.
“Circus is my therapy,” says Mr Touré, now 31. …
BBC – The circus helping Senegal’s former child beggars
BEST way to introduce Giants
I finally got back to a Gym where I’d coached 10 years — Taiso, Saskatoon.
Over the 3 weeks I had all beginners (and some trying to improve their backward Giants) do my favourite drill.
The beginner is focused on getting feet back on the spotting boxes as quickly as possible.
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Here’s coach Matthew Sparks using the same progression on the actual Bars rail. Her first Giant.
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Karis German – Bars
Karis is great on Bars.
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She once competed Stalder Tkachev LAYOUT.
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Roll Tide.
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How to Sheep
spotting Tsuk with a belt
Even if you have a pit, it’s not a bad idea to introduce the “flip” this way.
The first time I saw this done was in the 1970s. Crazy coach Dave Copeland asked me to be second spotter on the belt (a pair of blue jeans). It was at an outdoor summer camp. No pit. We RAN alongside the gymnast, spotting on the actual vault horse. Surprisingly, it worked well.
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Leah Clapper’s new Gymnastics game
Balance Palace
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Two Games are available to purchase now for $30 each.
Yeo Seo-jeong – Olympic Bronze Vault
Yeo Seo-jeong is the first South Korean female gymnast to win an Olympic medal.
But who was better? Father Yeo Hong-Chul, silver in 1996? Or daughter in 2021?
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