tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
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(via BBS 10s of Week 8)
Hamline is an NCAA Division III team that doesn’t get much Press.
But their coach, Doug Byrnes, is one of my favourite clinicians. Great guy. Excellent people skills.
A local paper posted a feature on his 20 year career.
In 1989 Hamline Gymnastics founder Mary Jane Olson asked Coach Byrnes if he wanted to work at Hamline. Byrnes declined. After Olson asked him four more times, Byrnes agreed to work Saturdays as a spotter for the team.
He’s never left. …
Seems USAG MPC bungled the selection process for upcoming World Cups.
Yul’s coach Mark Williams responds.
Click through to read the 5 tweets in that thread.
Here’s what they recommend in Canada.
Responsible NSOs (National Sports Organizations) recognize the importance of a sound team selection policy to ensure that the best athletes are indeed selected for optimal performance of the team, and also to avoid disputes leading up to a major competition.
The criteria must also be communicated to the athletes long before the start of the qualification period.
The entire training program of athletes will be based on meeting these criteria to secure their selection to the team, so it would be unreasonable to communicate these criteria only a few weeks or a few days before.
Of course, once a team selection policy approved and published, the NSO must ensure that it is implemented as intended.
read more … Team Selection
Though the gymternet mainly heard about the screw-ups at the annual U.S. Men’s selection meet during the Olympic year, Kensley was there — as usual — and found the competition much improved in many ways.
Click through to this Twitter thread to read her positive comments.
Greg Marsden asks that question on Twitter. And got PLENTY of feedback.
It was inspired by the scores last weekend of Utah at UCLA.
Spencer felt it was the most over-scored rotation of the year so far. A high bar.
Here are the judges. It seems there is no oversight for College officials.
Maya from Division II Bridgeport is PLANNING a routine with both double layout and full-in.
Click PLAY or watch her HUGE double layout on YouTube.
Right now Bridgeport is ranked ahead of many Division I teams.
Maya trained club at Chelsea Piers (NY).
Related – Bridgeport has a fundraiser underway: Team Travel, Locker Room Improvements, Team Apparel.
Via the Rebecca Scally interview on The Routine Podcast.
Ri, now age 35, has been one of the top vaulters in history.
World Champion 2014, 2015 and 2018.
The Olympic Gold medalist in Rio.
Where to start?
For an organization that already has little trust with membership, communication could not have been much worse at the (otherwise excellent) Men’s Winter Cup in Las Vegas.
Now Tuesday morning and I’m still not 100% sure what happened.
It seems the USA MPC had not documented their World Cup selection system in advance of Winter Cup.
Why, you might ask.
Yet USAG had to earlier put forward nominative entrees for the 4 AA World Cups either Sam or Yul were assigned to all four.
Not many — including Yul’s Mom — knew they were only nominative.
Now — after the Winter Cup — MPC is considering replacing Yul for some of his nominative assignments.
It’s a mess. More self-inflicted wounds for USA Gymnastics.
Click over to Gymnastics-Now for an update through Tuesday, February 25th.
Many of the best coaches in the world like this drill.
And many do backward layout for Yurchenko.
Personally I’ve never used it. I’m not as much worried about safety of the athlete as a the technical problem of encouraging too high preflight.
I prefer progressions that encourage gymnasts to touch the table as quickly as possible. Low preflight drills.
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