Category: pommel horse

liquid chalk for Gymnastics?

UPDATE

I got some feedback on this radical idea.  Male gymnasts tried it at one club but quickly abandoned the idea.  It didn’t work as well for H Bar.

Dr. Bill Sands sent a Safety Data Sheet on Isopropyl Alcohol (50-100%).

Risks include the fact that Isopropyl Alcohol is flammable. And some are allergic to topical alcohol. 

All in all, I don’t think I’d try liquid chalk. 

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Steve Arkell linked to this video, a rock climber making her own liquid chalk.

Alcohol is a component, a disinfectant.

I checked with a rock climbing coach who agreed it couldn’t hurt to use chalk with alcohol on reopening after COVID-19.  On climbing walls. And in sports like Gymnastics.

He suggested we could use 100% alcohol in the formula.

When kids are in the Gym we should remind them not to touch their face, as well.

Leave a comment if you have an opinion.

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cleaning Beams and Bars

For sanitizing Beams and apparatus including Bars in the era of COVID-19, Katrina Brandt recommends a spray on disinfectant.

 

John Prine was a gymnast. R.I.P.

Many of my generation were big fans of John Prime.

The singer songwriter died April 7, 2020 of complications caused by COVID-19.

Age-73.

Prine competed for Proviso East High School in the Chicago suburbs. Chicago was well known for excellent Pommels in that era.

“… it was gymnastics that got me through high school!”  

John Prine

Via NCAA MEN’S GYMNASTICS ALUMNI.

 

training Pommel at home

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kate_pykhtova – Flairs

A Russian Aerobic gymnast.

Many women have tried to learn them. These are easily the best I’ve seen, so far, on Floor.

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Melbourne World Cup FINALS day 1

Vault
G Jade Carey USA 14.866
S Coline Devillard FRA 14.249
B Shoko Miyata 14.149

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Bars
G Diana Varinska UKR 13.733
S Georgia Godwin AUS 13.633
B Daria Spiridonova RUS 13.533

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https://twitter.com/Pamchenkova/status/1231149122859732992

Floor
G Ryu Sunghyun KOR 14.933
S Kirill Prokopev RUS 14.6
B Milad Karimi KAZ 14.2

Pommels
G Stephen Nedoroscik USA 15.4
S Saeedreza Keikha IRI 15.033
B Kohei Kameyama JPN 14.833

Stephen scores internationally the kind of number he’s been getting domestically. A breakthrough.

He’ll petition to National Team.

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Rings
G Eleftherios Petrounias GRE 15.066
S Mahdi Ahmad Kohani IRI 14.5
B Ali Zahran EGY 14.266

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Read Blythe’s LIVE blog for full results and details.