10 / 10 for creativity.
I hope these young ladies can get back into their Gyms soon.
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Category: physical preparation
SRGC Old Town Stretch 2020
Heath Thorpe – Press through to Manna
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In reverse, Manna push to Handstand.
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Ray Wells Jr JUMP Challenge
EMMANUEL “RAYRAY” WELLS JR. is a sprinter at Washington State.
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Tumbl Trak Portable Parallettes
Worst. Home. Workout.
You’ve seen a lot of home workout tutorials over recent weeks.
JP’s is the worst yet. 😀
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VERY advanced push-up variation
Only for the best of the best. 😀
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Gymnastics training camp ONLINE
Two clubs in COVID-19 lockdown practiced together online with more than 60 gymnasts.
Polarettes in Whitehorse and my home club Altadore in Calgary worked out at home simultaneously.
Great idea.
Bryony Page – single leg squat challenge
Have you got legs like the Olympic Silver Medallist in Trampolining from Rio?
Bryony is additionally part of the #26OlympiansChallenge.
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when MEN competed ‘Inbars’
IMHO – Inbars should be valued same as Stalder, Endo.
It’s not a skill we should be encouraging.
Growing up in western Canada we never called piked Endo or piked Stalder ‘Inbars‘.
Most often we called them stooped Stalder, stooped Endo.
Sometimes Stalder piked, Endo piked.
The WAG Code currently calls them Clear Pike Circles. That’s better than Inbars, in my opinion.
These swings are a problem for WAG in 2020 for several reasons:
- risk of lower back injury due to force of compression at the bottom
- deduction for flexed feet getting into and out of the swing
- deduction for lack of hip flexion
- difficulty in getting back to handstand
They aren’t a problem for MAG and haven’t been since the men’s Code devalued to same as regular Stalder / Endo. We no longer see them in MAG competition.
But there was fugly era when MANY male gymnasts competed them for difficulty. Very few men had the genetic limb length and physical ability to do them well. It was painful to watch.
I coached only one who trained them, Davide Bardana. He’s also the best I can recall.
Kyle Shewfelt, years later at the same club, competed them as cleanly as any male gymnast of the day.
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