Category: physical preparation

“Dislocation Artist”

That sounds bad.

Laurie Hernandez hosts a visit to see Cirque Zumanity performer Araz Hamzayev in training.

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Manna training set-up

This looks great.

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cover girl Laurie Hernandez

An Anatomy Physiology text.

Professor Keith Russell many times brought in male gymnasts to “demonstrate” in Anatomy class.

(via theGymter.net)

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in St. Louis

After NCAA Nationals while walking in Forest Park, close to the site of the 1904 Olympics, I happened upon this statue of one of the historical founders of Gymnastics.

On either side are statues of a male and female athlete.

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (11 August 1778 – 15 October 1852) was a German gymnastics educator and nationalist. His admirers know him as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning “father of gymnastics” Jahn. …

The first Turnplatz, or open-air gymnasium, was opened by Jahn in Berlin in 1811, and the Turnverein (gymnastics association) movement spread rapidly. …

A man of populistic nature, rugged, eccentric and outspoken, Jahn often came into conflict with the authorities. …

Jahn promoted the use of parallel bars, rings and high bar in international competition. In honor and memory of him, some gymnastic clubs, called Turnvereine (German: Turnvereine), took up his name …

handstand above the clouds

Stefanie Millinger has a lot of confidence in her balance.

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New Zealand’s Alethea Boon at Commonwealths

Alethea Boon competed as a gymnast in Commonwealths 1998 and 2002.

Later joined CrossFit.

Now 34-years-old, she’s competing Women’s 58kg Weightlifting this year.

7-year-old Air Flair

What!?

This stuff is near impossible. #respect

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via NCAA MEN’S GYMNASTICS ALUMNI