Category: Gymnastics

FIG AA World Cup Series cancelled

The series was made up of four events – in Milwaukee (USA), Stuttgart (GER), Birmingham (GBR) and Tokyo (JPN) – originally intended to take place between March and April 2020. …

The World Cup in Tokyo on 4 May, which serves as a test event for the Games in Artistic Gymnastics, remains unaffected for the moment. …

According to the rules, the unused places go to the highest-ranked countries in the team ranking results of the qualifications at the 2019 World Championships.
The following countries, therefore, obtain an additional non-nominative berth for Tokyo 2020:

  • Men’s Artistic Gymnastics: Russia, China and Japan.
  • Women’s Artistic Gymnastics: USA, China and Russia.

To date, 82 places out of 98 in Men’s Artistic and 84 out of 98 in Women’s Artistic have already been allocated.

The remaining places at stake will be allocated through the Apparatus World Cup Series (the final stage of which is scheduled for 10–13 March in Doha, (QAT)) and the continental championships.

Press Release

interview with Paul Juda

A year ago, Paul Juda found himself a surprise member of the U.S. men’s gymnastics senior national team. …

Juda feels as though he has made the most of the time he’s had with Olympic postponement.

“Another year, being so young is honestly super helpful,” said Juda. “I think where I am right now, I’m in much better position than I was last year to make to potentially make the Olympic team.”

Olympic Channel

Click PLAY or see his flairs on YouTube.

Washington Men’s coach Giancarlo Mora steps down

It is with great surprise that Head Coach Giancarlo Mora has respectfully decided to resign as Head Coach of the Washington Men’s Gymnastics Team.

The Washington Men’s Gymnastics Foundation is extremely grateful for Giancarlo’s commitment and contributions to the team. …

We wish him success in his future endeavors and are thankful for his 5+ years of coaching, recruiting, promoting and making this team his number one priority!

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FB Curves – next level?

The FB Curves apps for MAG and WAG are fantastic.

Animations astonishingly close to real.

Click PLAY or watch an example on YouTube.

What’s next?

I like the look of this recent upload. An even more realistic animation.

biomechanics of SWING

Matthew Sparks, circus and Gymnastics coach, has been posting coaching videos on his personal YouTube channel.

Click PLAY or watch one on YouTube.

Florida, LSU, Utah

  1. Florida, 197.506
  2. LSU, 197.144
  3. Utah, 197.090
  4. Oklahoma, 196.845
  5. Arkansas, 196.775
  6. Alabama, 196.581
  7. Denver, 196.544
  8. Michigan, 196.538
  9. Iowa, 196.531
  10. UCLA, 196.450

In pretty much every respect, Iowa’s performance on Saturday was a big deal.

The 196.800 total score ranks tied for 4th on Iowa’s all-time score list (the team record is 197.150), and Iowa notched a victory over the supposedly better Minnesota team as it continues a surprising assault on conference supremacy.

The original posted meet score of 196.825 would have tied Iowa with Michigan for first in the Big Ten this week.

BBS – WEEK 5 RANKINGS

Arizona State’s gigantic 197.150 in falling to Utah on Saturday isn’t breaking team records the way Iowa’s results have been because, a couple decades ago, ASU was a 198y team.

But this performance should be treated with similar significance. The vault and bars rotations on Friday were the best I’ve seen an Arizona State team look on those events.

Aliya now Jr RUS Head Coach

… the biggest news came from Valentina Rodionenko today.

She told TASS that Mustafina is currently the acting head coach of the junior national team and replaced her former coach Evgeny Grebyonkin in that role.

Grebyonkin was the head coach of the senior national team in 2013-2019. In 2020 he and Olga Bulgakova switched roles, he started working as the head coach of the junior team, while she headed the senior team as her gymnasts turned senior. …

gymnovosti

 I want to say that I agreed to this job not because I dreamed of it and craved it but because I realized that I want the best for GYMNASTICS and hope that I can give it.

For me, to become a coach is not about getting a salary, it’s much more important for me to contribute to the development of gymnastics …

Aliya

Zuhlke 2 on Vault

This ain’t easy.

10.0 start.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.