Category: Gymnastics

update on Valeri and Brazil

Cedrick Willian on Gym Blog Brazil posted an important update on Valeri.

The original is in Portuguese. Here are some points I gleaned from Google Translate:

– short term goal is Tokyo 2020. Long term is important, as well.

– National Team training camp was Jan 7-17th

– no more weighing gymnasts

– nutritional orientation

– buffet at camp offered juice and dessert (yes, dessert!)

– doctors, physiotherapists, nutritionists, physical trainers and biomechanist involved

– first day medical assessment and specific skills test

– other days training: morning 08:30 to 12:30, afternoon 15:30 to 18:30.

– Saturday morning only and Sunday off

– all apparatus each day. Ballet and choreography rotations

– Brazil travels to WOGA Jan 28th – Feb 10th

– Jr and Sr team members will compete WOGA Classic in February

– the feeling is that the doors are open for everyone who aspires to National Team

The beginning of the democratization of Brazilian women’s artistic gymnastics

Valeri Liukin

Liu Xuan’s piked Jaeger to mixed

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Rings Cross Support variations

Supporting your own body weight on low Rings is challenging for beginners due to the moving Base of Support.

Start boys and girls on low Rings as soon as possible. It’s ideal general strength training for support skills.

You can buy low Rings and adjustable straps for about $40. The best bang for your buck of any equipment purchase.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks Bermuda Gymnastics Association.

Paris McGee can dance

The former Ohio State gymnast emulated some of the top WAG routines in 2016.

Click PLAY or watch Simone’s Floor on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Laurie’s on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Gabby’s on Instagram.

Watch a 2018 interview during Paris’ final season following ACL surgery.

related – Men’s Gymnastics Better With Music, And This Guy Proves It (2006)

Taylor Lawson – Arabian

Watch it on Tumblr.

https://www.tumblr.com/irishdaniel/182322017748/taylor-lawson-of-stanford-nails-her-arabian-on

USAG membership is up

Despite bad publicity, CEO turnover and the U.S. Olympic Committee’s threat to decertify it, USA Gymnastics membership has risen

USA Gymnastics increased its athlete membership more than 8% from 2016 to 2018, according to data that the group has not posted publicly. … …

WSJ – Gymnastics Scandal’s Surprise Aftermath: More Gymnasts

H Bar / Trampoline stunt

I’m intrigued with this combination of apparatus.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

emotional abuse in Gymnastics

In this post a former British national squad gymnast reflects on her former coach.

The under-reported risk for competitive gymnasts is psychological abuse.

Anonymous:

Looking back over my time with Coach is something I find difficult. I know not all my memories are bad but those are the ones that most easily come to mind. …

But, at this point the good days for me far outweighed the not so good days and I enjoyed being there, I enjoyed working with Coach, in fact I would go as far as to say I loved her. …

… after a while no matter what I did it just wasn’t good enough, my name was now added to the blacklist. It became a matter of survival, be the one who least upset Coach during a session, praying Coach would take her wrath out on anyone but me. …

It was only Coach’s talent that would get me to the Olympics, not my own and if I moved to another coach my Olympic dream would be over. In retrospect, I can see how naïve I was to believe this, yet this haunted me throughout my career and I gave up on myself once I left coach, believing my dreams and goals were shattered.

Warriors in Leotards

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