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I haven’t found much consensus amongst top coaches. Many different kinds of hurdles result in successful vaults and tumbling lines.
When I was a young coach Boris Verkhovsky first told me that a switch leg hurdle should be slightly more powerful than a chassé. Indeed, most top gymnasts do switch legs during their hurdle.
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Keep tabs on the guys by reading Logan Bradley’s weekly power rankings.
Older, powerful female gymnasts are more at risk. ☹️
The Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation has been profiling black gymnasts on their blog.
Corrinne Wright to Simone Biles.
Depending on routine readiness and the individual athlete’s goal, gymnasts were allowed to do modified routines at the verification.
Good idea.
Here are some examples.
Click PLAY or watch Jade Carey’s Floor on YouTube. (Moors on a separate tumbling line.)
Click PLAY or watch Jordan Bowers’s Beam on YouTube. (Rest before dismount.)
(via FloGymnastics)
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Read an expanded version online: Finances, Sponsors, Litigation, National Team Training Center.
If USAG is to be saved, I’d call this a small step forward. The words are good if not yet backed up with enough action.
There are doubters. John Nichols points out Perry attended only a portion of one day of victim statements.
related – Jessica O’Beirne from GymCastic was invited to LSU for Elite verification. She’s been the most vocal critic of USAG through the Nassar scandal. I see this as real evidence of transparency. An even bigger step forward.
Read Spencer’s take.
Yul MOLDAUER and Allan BOWER will be very competitive in the AA at home, I’m predicting.
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