Category: Gymnastics

grip breaks on Rings

Most of the time, the gymnast “rips off” … hopefully into the pit.

Click PLAY or see what happened to Devy on Instagram. (2016)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCjw5GoGhR-/

Artur Dalaloyan training at home

Thanks — once again — to Luba who translates foreign news stories for us.

Click through to gymnovosti to watch Artur conditioning.

super high regrasp on Bhavsar

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

 

Mykayla Skinner wears tape grips

UNDER her Bailey Velcro grips.

Expensive, slow and complicated. But it seems to work for her.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – I recommend Bailey single buckle grips for most gymnasts.

Tak 1/1 to handstand

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Beam routine at home

For a Legends of Lockdown online competition, Josh Kronfeld reenacted a Beam routine.

… and the crowd went wild.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

NCAA gymnasts are under compensated

On GymCastic #419 Jessica interviewed sports economist Dr. David Berri from Southern Utah University, the Flippin’ Birds.

It’s been by far the best insight into the business of American College Sports I’ve ever encountered.

Gymnasts are under compensated for their contribution. Top College coaches overpaid for what they bring to the University. 

I highly recommend you listen to that episode. The interview is late in the podcast.

Berri has spent the last two decades researching sports and economics, while publishing works on a variety of topics including the evaluation of players and coaches, competitive balance, the drafting of players, labor disputes, the NCAA, and gender issues in sports.

Dr. Berri was the lead author of “The Wages of Wins and Stumbling on Wins” and recently published “Sports Economics“, a textbook from Macmillan Publishers.

In the past, he has written on the subject of sports economics for a number of popular media outlets, including the New York Times, the Atlantic.com, Time.com, and Vice Sports. Currently, Dr. Berri is writing for Forbes.com.

FIG Olympics qualification decisions

Yesterday FIG announced what they plan to do in light of the 2020 Olympics being delayed to 2021.

Spencer’s posted the most thoughtful reaction I’ve seen so far:

FIG GONNA FIG: THE 2021 OLYMPICS DECISIONS

  • 2017-2020 code of points will remain in force until the end of 2021.

 

  • Athletes who turn senior in 2021 WILL be eligible to qualify for and compete in the Olympics.

Spencer is OK with that decision. Kyle Shewfelt, for example, disagrees.

For example, 2019 Junior World all-around champion Viktoria Listunova is now eligible.

  • Weirdly, FIG is going to use the Baku World Cup 2020 preliminary rankings for points, since the Final was cancelled.

 

  • Copenhagen Worlds 2021 will be held as scheduled.