Category: Gymnastics

Luisa Portocarrero – 1993 Beam

Luisa represented Guatemala at the 1992 Olympics. Her Beam coach was CA Orchard in Canada.

Following her elite career, she competed for UCLA contributing to the team’s first National title in 1997.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1235700573330010113

 

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

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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

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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.