Category: Gymnastics

improving active hip flexion

Beginners are often better at passive flexibility (e.g. pike sit) than active flexibility which is needed for skills.

The conditioning program should include active flexibility training.

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Thanks Bermuda Gymnastics Association.

2019 Nissen Emery Award Finalists

I’ve got to be cheering Justin Karstadt.

#YulWho? 😀

Pommel Flair training devices

Most Men’s coaches have built or tried these devices at one point or another. They are useful for conditioning. OK for introducing the concept of Flairs. But not many will advance from this device to Mushroom.

You can buy the G-Force kit for 300 €. It’s marketed mainly to breakdancers.

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Heidi Moneymaker – Floor

One of Miss Val’s favourite UCLA Floor Routines*.

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Heidi Moneymaker today is a top stunt woman.

Alice Kinsella 2017

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Patti Rope – 1976 Bars

Patti was coached by her parents, Don and Benita Rope. In 1972 they founded Cambridge Kips Gymnastics Club.

In February of 1976, with the Olympics approaching, the Romanian team, including Nadia Comenici, stayed in Cambridge to train with the Kips for a week at Glenview Park S.S. The culmination of the week was a two-day Canada-Romania meet, hosted by the Kips at the Kitchener Auditorium. It was at that meet that Nadia received the first perfect 10, a benchmark for what was to come at the Olympics not long afterward.

At Montreal two Russian gymnasts approached Patti asking if she could help them get their ears pierced. They all piled into the Rope van and went downtown. The two Russians? Nelli Kim, and a young girl by the name of Elvira Saadi, destined one day to become coach of the Kips and of Canadian champion Yvonne Tousek.

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via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

Rope finished 27th at Montreal, the highest-ever placing at an Olympics by a Canadian female gymnast at the time …

Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame

Gymnastics foam pit rescue

Do your Emergency Services know how to deal with a gymnast injured in a foam pit?

Thanks Avril.