Biles returned to work in Texas on Nov. 2 under a new coach, Laurent Landi …
… she said. “I’m more excited than I thought I would be and I already have all of my skills from the Olympics and I haven’t been doing gym for a year-and-a-half, so that’s kind of exciting.” …
Category: Gymnastics
incline cartwheels for beginners
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Good idea. Uphill to encourage a good lunge and strong leg action. Downhill to help the newbie land in a more vertical position.
Bermuda Gymnastics Association 2017
Over the past year I’ve been assisting Head Coach Adriana Forde and her staff in Bermuda. With a population of only 65,000, the sport is quite advanced. They have MAG up to USA JO L8 and WAG up to L10.
Click PLAY or get a glimpse on YouTube. Bars is highest priority for WAG right now.
No MAG jump to prone after landing
when your Kas is a stagger hand Handspring
The second vault should not get credit as Kasamatsu. He doesn’t show a 90 degree twist on, 90 degree twist back. Deduction -2.0 from the average.
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Artem Dolgopyat interview
Artem Dolgopyat (Hebrew: ארטיום דולגופיאט; born June 16, 1997) is an Israeli artistic gymnast. At the 2017 World Championships, he won the silver medal on floor exercise.
… the second Israeli gymnast to win a medal in gymnastics world championships (after Alex Shatilov) and the first to win a silver medal.
Born in Ukraine, his family moved to Israel when he was age-12.
Click PLAY or watch his Worlds qualifying FX on YouTube. Zapata mount.
Gymnovosti:
He became an overnight sensation in Israel …
“For years I’ve been spending at least 4 hours a day on the buses. I had to wake up at 6 am in order to arrive in time to practices, classes and physical therapy. It was very hard to stay stuck in traffic so many hours a day. On my last birthday, my dad gave me his old car as a gift, this made my life so much easier.”
He is currently in the army, serving in the rank of a junior sergeant. As an athlete, he receives a special permission to serve only half a day and can train the rest of the day and it’s very hard for him to combine training and the service:
“I come to the gym half-dead after a day at the army base. Athlete-soldiers have to work in the army for 6 hours a week but my commander allows me to leave after five hours”.
… For his medal at Worlds he received a special prize from the government – NIS 84,000 ($24,000) and his coach also got a prize – half this sum. He also got a raise and now receives NIS 8,500 a month ($2500) …
DOLGOPYAT: THE DAY OF THE FLOOR FINAL I COULDN’T STEP ON MY FOOT
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Vault – sticking a double pike
Kazakhstan’s Milad Karimi interviewed
How is Gymnastics in Kazakhstan these days?
Not good according to a very personal, outspoken interview with the World’s 2017 FX finalist:
Other guys and I were always told the same thing: if there will be medals, we’ll create good training conditions for you. Great, I gave results in 2017, why hasn’t anything changed? For example, we have really bad conditions in Almaty. When it snows, it becomes impossible to train in our gym in the Kazakh Academy of Sports and Tourism – we can get seriously injured because it’s too cold in the gym. So it means that in winter we don’t have a place to train properly, we’re only doing conditioning because it’s not comfortable to train fully clothed in our only gym. …
A: I’m getting paid a bit more than 200,000 tenge a month now [around $600].
Q: What salary did you have before, if it’s not a secret.
A: In 2015, I was paid 15,000 tenge [$45], in 2016 – 30,000 tenge [$90], from January till May 2017 – 110,000 tenge [$333] and from June till September 140,000 tenge [$424]. …
MILAD KARIMI: KAZAKHSTAN’S NATIONAL TEAM DOESN’T HAVE PROPER TRAINING CONDITIONS
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Gymnova P Bar rail breaks
Alexei Nemov’s memoir “Fair Play”
Luba Baladzhaeva:
The book (2009) is absolutely fascinating and also includes chapters by his coach and his wife. However, it’s never been translated into English and likely won’t ever be. I am currently reading the book and posting the highlights in English on twitter. All the tweets are then assembled into a story on Storify.
His first coach kept notes and wrote that at the beginning Nemov was physically weak, lacked endurance, poorly behaved and was prone to sudden mood changes …
He talks about food and hunger a lot. He still remembers (and holds a grudge) how Voropayev stole his breakfast …
He bought his first car in 1995. At the time coaches didn’t like when gymnasts left the Round Lake territory even on the days off, so Arkayev often confiscated his car keys …
Between 1995 and 1997 there was a huge drug problem at Round Lake. Mostly weed, but some heavier drugs as well …
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