Category: safety

LOVE IT – Adjustable Trapeze Bar

  • attach to any bar or set of rings using the adjustable straps
  • obstacle courses, ninja runs, and strength training stations
  • suede-lined pads that help protect your bar
  • adjust length with steel carabiner between the layers of webbing

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My most important use of this product would be for Flyaway.

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That Flyaway drill would come after Swinging Rings.

Personally I like to have beginners do hundreds of Flyaways without spot before moving to the competition Bar. Doing progressions without spot builds confidence.

Click PLAY or watch Swinging Rings Flyaway on YouTube.

Finally moving to the Bar, I still wouldn’t spot.

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Somewhere in there I’d spend one day doing it on P Bars with both boys and girls.

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Doing an actual Flyaway on an actual Bar I’d delay as long as possible.

IF your gymnast hits feet on the Bar, there could be a setback. Don’t let it happen.

USAG #PrideMonth

Well done USA Gymnastics.

Equal opportunity for ALL.

Laurie Hernandez on Her and Partner Charlotte Drury’s Transition From Olympic Gymnastics to the Arts (Exclusive)

Happy Juneteenth

Juneteenth is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. 

More important than ever as some right wing American politicians are trying to erase slavery from the history books. Looking at you, Florida.

All gymnasts should have an equal opportunity to participate and compete.

Nagorny sanctioned by USA

The gymnast most active in supporting Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is Nikita Nagorny.

He’s top of the list to be sanctioned.

Training versus “Competition Ready”

Nick Ruddock goes over how new skills in the Gym — eventually are ready to put into the routine in competition.

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Colt Walker (literally) breaks the H Bar

Modern horizontal bars have a cable in the middle — so don’t snap entirely in half as they did in the past.

Souvenir?

Simone documentary before Olympics

Starting in July, Netflix and the IOC will air three new documentary series, including one on U.S. gymnast Simone Biles. The other two series will cover men’s basketball and sprinters.

“Simone Biles: Rising” will feature four 45-minute episodes following her journey after Tokyo. …

sportsbusinessjournal.com

WADA bungled Chinese swimming dope scandal

The World Anti-Doping Agency did not — I believe — follow their own procedures correctly.

In April 2024, the Doping Investigations Unit of German broadcaster ARD released a documentary revealing the details of 28 positive tests for the banned heart-booster returned by 23 Chinese swimmers.[52].

All were declared “no fault” cases after Chinada reported to WADA that a mass contamination event had accounted for the adverse findings. …

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#MentalHealthMatters – Miah Bruns

Miah trains at World Champions Centre [Spring, TX, USA].

She recommends training with a sport psychologist to help reach your goals.

Coach Thierry Pellerin sentenced to 5 years

Former (Canadian) Olympic hopeful Thierry Pellerin was sentenced to five years in prison for luring young boys who were under his responsibility to the gymnastics club where he was a coach, in addition to filming them in the locker room toilets.

Journal de Quebec

He will be in the sex offender register for the next 20 years and will not be able to be in a park, school grounds or other place where it is reasonable to expect the presence of children.