Category: Gymnastics

Blind Change progressions

Here’s the standard way to teach one of the most wrongly-named skills in English.

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The main alternative methodology — for me — is to do the Giant first, then a reverse pirouette from handstand.

For many years at Altadore most boys learned it using one handguard, one safety strap.

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Szombathely World Challenge Cup

This weekend.

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USA Men’s trials – day 1

1. Sam Mikulak-87.350 (hit 6/6)
2. Akash Modi-83.600
3. Shane Wiskus-83.000
4. Yul Moldauer-82.650
5. Colin Van Wicklen-82.550
6. Allan Bower-82.300
7. Trevor Howard-81.050 (top score Rings & Vault)
8. Donnell Whittenburg-80.450

Selection Committee: Mike Serra, JD Reive, Jon Horton, Russ Fystrom and Brett McClure.

related – USAG is advertising for two positions:

 

Canadian teams to Worlds

Both Ana and Jackson recovered from injury in time to qualify for Stuttgart.

Ellie Black
Brooklyn Moors
Victoria Woo
Shallon Olsen
Ana Padurariu
Bela Onyshko (alternate)

Rene Cournoyer
William Emard
Cory Paterson
Jackson Payne
Sam Zakutney
Justin Karstadt

women coaching Men’s Gymnastics

Vanessa Toulouse has been recognized in Quebec for her success coaching MAG.

As a judge I’ve always found that boys coached by a woman usually have better form and line than those coached by men.

A pioneering coach in the men’s gym

straight body cast handstand

Gymneo puts together the world’s best coaching tutorials. For cast handstand they offer an hour of quality video.

Gymneo is a subscription service which happens to be on sale as I post.

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Tyndall Brothers social media

Do you know the Tyndall brothers – Jesse, Mitch and Wyatt?

The Canadian trio from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan brought their talents to Big Ten men’s gymnastics. Last season Jesse was a freshman at Ohio State, Mitch a red shirt freshman at Nebraska and Wyatt a senior at Penn State.

Here’s what they do in the off-season.

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Follow their Facebook page.

Margzetta Frazier – original tumbling line

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