Category: Gymnastics

depth of USA Gymnastics

The USA will select their 2019 Worlds Team this weekend. That’s the toughest qualifying process anywhere.

MAKING Team USA is harder than competing at Worlds.

Caitlyn Hynes:

The United States is filled with over a thousand level ten gymnasts, along with anywhere from 30-80 gymnasts training at the elite level at any given moment, according to statistics from USA Gymnastics.  …

… gymnasts in the United States know that elite is not the be-all, end-all of their career … even if it’s not a coveted spot on the Olympic team.

The majority see the college scholarship as an end goal that is more tangible and realistic than the Olympics, a way to pay back their years of support and effort. …

theGymter.net 

Lisa Simpson training Beam

With coach Lugash.

Season 13 – Little Girl in the Big Ten

There are a lot of Gymnastics references in The Simpsons. Many of the writers had kids who did Gym.

Rhys hits a good one

The triple Russian machine.

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Utah Gymnastics documentary

You can watch Utah Gymnastics: Red Rocks Retrospective (51 min) online free.

Thanks Greg.

Paris Challenge Cup Results

Big crowd. Loud crowd.

Vault
1 Oksana Chusovitina Uzbekistan 14.300
2 Sara Peter Hungary 13.900
3 Franchesca Santi Chile 13.750

Bars
1 Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos France 14.650
2 Anastasia Agafonova Russia 14.600
3 Zsofia Kovacs Hungary 14.200

Beam
1 Anastasia Agafonova Russia 13.400
2 Anastasiia Bachynska Ukraine 13.300
3 Diana Varinska Ukraine 13.200

Floor
1 Diana Varinska Ukraine 13.450
2 Marine Boyer France 13.400
3 Aneta Holasova Czech Republic 13.100

Full results.

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related – BBS – PARIS WORLD CUP

Beam as a ‘performance’

Advice from Olivia Karas

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8W6ajYGu0Q

Shaposh progression and spotting

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Even better is the Tumbl Trak Quick Flex Bar.

Click PLAY or watch one spotting method on Facebook.

practicing Gymnastics shapes

If you can’t do the stationary positions correctly, there’s not much chance you’ll move into-and-out-of those positions well.

See many more Gymnastics shapes.

NEW Air Floor Pro

I’m using the old Air Floor Pro every day in Bermuda. We have two.

I like it BEST for Beam. Next BEST in the vertical position for Bars and Handstand work.

I personally don’t use the Pro much for Tumbling preferring the regular Air Floor. At the same stage of skill learning where you might want a Pro, kids in Bermuda use Rod Floor instead.

However, the newest version of the Air Floor Pro is both more durable and lighter. Both big improvements.

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