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Category: history
Twist and Pulse – evolution of dance
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Twist and Pulse are an English street dance duo.
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Danell Leyva at OTC
Elena Davydova interview
Elena Davydova is Head Coach and Owner of Gemini Gymnastics in Ontario. She’s the 1980 Olympic Champion and currently sits on the FIG WTC.
Elena Davydova gave an interview to Oksana Tonkacheeva for the magazine of the Russian artistic gymnastics federation. …
Davydova is one of the few people in the artistic gymnastics world who attended the Olympic Games in three roles – a gymnast (for USSR in 1980), a coach (for Canada in 2012) and a judge (also for Canada, in 2016). …
The 1970s were the era of discovering new elements. We were practically attacking them even though there was no method of learning them. … I watched Aleksandr Tkachev training his releases (we both lived in Voronezh at the time and sometimes trained in the same gym), so I ran to my coach Gennadi Korshunov and told him: why don’t I try this? …
Q: How did you end up in Canada?
A: It’s a personal story. Or rather, a problem. The complications of a difficult birth seriously affected the health of my oldest son. The treatment that our doctors offered wasn’t helping. …
By the way, I want to say special thanks to Andrey Fyodorovich Rodionenko. During his years of working in Canada, the authority of a coach grew a lot. …
Q: How do you separate your emotions when both Canadians and Russians compete?
A: Oh, I’m nervous for everyone equally. …
Natalia Laschenova – 1989 Yurchenko 1/1
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Cuban Gymnast Erick Lopez interview
Erick Lopez is the athlete with the largest number of medals from the Pan American Games (18) …
It would be easy for someone with his track record to blow his own trumpet, but Erick Lopez has always been a humble and simple man …
I suffered the prejudices of being Black, Latin and Cuban, like previous generations at the World Championships. …
(via GymCastic)
Olympian still coaching Gymnastics at 83
Watch a touching and inspirational BBC interview with Gwynedd Lingard, who competed as a gymnast in the 1952 and 1960 Olympic Games, still coaches six classes a week at Penarth Gymnastics Club.
1988 Olympian Svetlana Baitova interviewed
An Olympic gold medalist speaks. It’s a fascinating read.
Q: Do you often dream about gymnastics?
A: I used to, but I rarely do now. I’ve never dreamed about my favorite bars, only about my hated vault. …
Q: how much money were you paid for your Olympic gold in 1988?
A: I received 8,000 rubles and an apartment. It was a decent amount for that time, you could buy the most coveted car of the time – Lada Sputnik. …
… On that national team, any single one of us could win the all-around. And the same was the case with the men’s team. I think that those were the strongest USSR teams in the history. This was true not just in Seoul but also in Barcelona in 1992. …
SVETLANA BAITOVA: VICTORY IS MORE DIFFICULT TO SURVIVE THAN DEFEAT
Click PLAY or watch her Vault on YouTube. The second is Yurchenko Double Twist.
Mary Lou Retton competed Tsuk 1/1, not Kas
#respect
Tsuk 1/1 is much more difficult than the Kasamatsu used by Ellie Black, Oksana and … almost everyone.
Mary Lou did half-on, full-off. (1.5 twists total)
Kasamatsu is quarter-on, three quarter-off (1.0 twists total)
Watch it on YouTube. (Right hand on the horse first, left twist on the salto.)
In addition, she trained Tsuk double full. Seriously.
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Almost nobody does the more difficult version of Tsuk twisting. René Cournoyer from Canada is one.
If still confused on Kasamatsu, click over to Uncle Tim’s post – What the H is a Kasamatsu?
