One ‘tell‘ for me is whether or not statements include Black Lives Matter #BlackLivesMatter.
If not, they are usually avoiding the biggest controversy to not offend somebody or other. Weak support.
Check too if there’s an actual apology for past injustice at the University. A promise of action in future. If not, it’s likely just weasel words. Nothing will change.
GymCastic was impressed that K.J. Kindler and Mark Williams marched for George Floyd.
Cal Women’s Gymnastics supported the Black Lives Matter run June 8th. A good sign.
Other sports have done more. Especially football. A racist coach was put on leave at Iowa. His base pay $800,000 / year.
Nine Georgia Tech teams, including football and men's and women's basketball, will take the day off from mandatory activities on Election Day as a way to encourage their student-athletes to vote. Other schools considering it.https://t.co/SQk8PduSqr CC @OtotheBeirne@GymCastic
— Gymnastics Coaching 🤸🏾♂️ (@GymCoaching) June 10, 2020
More than 60 Missouri football players registered to vote Wednesday as part of the team's call to action … Players and coaches kneeled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to honor Floyd …https://t.co/pjioJegD5s
— Gymnastics Coaching 🤸🏾♂️ (@GymCoaching) June 10, 2020
Just once I tried to build my own version of a Rings bungee belt. It lasted about 3 weeks before falling apart.
A professional version is available. Safer on the shoulders. Easy to do more repetitions of swings. It works for dismounts. And, of course, less spotting is needed.
Tower Spot System includes TS anchors, TS adult and child harnesses, TS resistance bands (5 for each side, 10 total).
Today Kiana Winston is a social worker, encouraging us to “advocate and work towards ending the deeply rooted racism, social injustices, and police brutality in this country.”
Originally from Texas Dreams, Kiana graduated College team in 2018.
Click over to Facebook to read her very positive memories at Alabama. Roll Tide.
Phillippe Delasalle from Canada was often credited for introducing the “Flair” after he showed it in international competition in Russia 1975. Soviets called it Delasalle for decades following.
Kurt Thomas unveiled his “Thomas Flair” variation (Flair Czechkehre Flair) in 1976.
Hardy Fink:
Naming of an element usually requires performance at a World Championship or Olympic Games. Both Philippe and Kurt performed it on the day of optional competition in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Canada did not have a full team so it competed early on that day. For that reason, Philippe performed it many hours before Kurt.
All of the Eastern bloc and many other countries referred to it as the Delesalle for many years. But the name Thomas flair eventually won the “name recognition” war and that is how it was entered in the Code of Points several years later.
Most agree it was Ted Marcy and others from Hinsdale High School in Chicago who invented the Flair.
Donny Gardiner who was on the Hinsdale team back then recalls “the guys” playing around with different ideas to transfer from circles into pendulum swings. It was a ‘scissor break’ that evolved into the Flair over time.
(Donny recalls that Marcy was the first they knew of to reach vertical on scissors, as well.)
Todd Gardiner, Donny’s brother, recalls that Ted did the ‘Marcy flair‘in High School competition which consisted of just the split into scissor break. By college (1972) Ted was probably training full flairs, but Todd’s not sure when (exactly) he first competed them. One competitor from those years cannot recall Marcy ever competing a full flair.
However, at theMidwest Open in either ’74 or ’75 Ted competed against Hoffman & Slezak from Hinsdale, among other greats, and fell very early in the routine. As Midwest didn’t allow for a remount, Ted smiled, saluted, then got back up and threw a fun routine including an exaggerated full Marcy Flair and other wild stuff. The crowd went nuts.
Joel Ulloa who ended up competing for Cal State Fullerton was working on Flair in the ’70s too. You might recall the IG magazine photo sequence of the ‘Ulloa Break’.
So who invented the Flair?
I’m guessing the first full Flair was most likely done first at Hinsdale by 1972 or 1973. In training. At the time Ted Marcy was the best of the guys playing around with it. Hoffman and Slezak may have competed a full Flair even earlier in local competitions.
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