Another terrific and important DOVE commercial.
Reverse Selfie
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Category: safety
learning to fall safely
Pull the hands into the stomach.
Never reach back.
Some of the top Gyms assign an occassional Falling and Landing warm-up.
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Thanks John.
Fastfluff™ inflatable Vault mat
No mats to move, no time wasted.
Inflate to Drill, Deflate to Skill.
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Kohei – 2014 Floor
I’d argue Kohei Uchimura singled handedly reinvented how male gymnasts land.
Easily the best in the world in his prime, many emulated Kohei’s exaggerated technique.
I love it as he turned the science of safely reducing huge impact forces to zero into an art form.
At the same time WAG was foolishly deducting low chest position. Dangerous!
Of his many stuck routines over many years, Blythe chose this as one of her decade-defining routines.
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train landings train landings train landings
Landings are incredibly important in NCAA competition. Yet College girls are not very good at them. 😕
Almost any male gymnast is more skilled at bringing impact forces to zero than almost any female gymnast. Male gymnasts work seriously on landings.
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Click PLAY or watch U.S. guys working landings on instagram.
Yes. Part of the problem in WAG is judging expectations. We need to educate judges to the biomechanically, physiologically BEST and SAFEST techniques of landing.
more comfortable medical casts
I’ve not used either of these, but they look promising. Leave a comment if you’ve tried any alternatives to standard casts.
Click PLAY or watch FlexiOH™ on YouTube.
FlexiOH™ details.
Click PLAY or watch Cast21 on YouTube.
Cast21 details.
FIG should improve Vault landing mats
Does anyone have statistics on this?
I feel certain we are seeing more severe injuries on Vault landings, on average, than on any other apparatus.
I’d recommend FIG require a mat more like the safer one used by Trampoline sports on double-mini.
Leave a comment if you have an opinion.
Achilles injury in NCAA
Abstract
Achilles injury risk in women’s collegiate gymnastics is 10-fold higher than in all other collegiate sports. This study aims to identify risk factors for Achilles tendon ruptures in collegiate female gymnasts.Hypothesis:
Factors Associated With Achilles Tendon Rupture in Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics
Gymnasts with Achilles tendon ruptures will be more likely to report early gymnastics specialization, elite-level training before college, and performance of high-difficulty skills on floor and vault. …
talking about the ‘gymternet’
Fans are Fanatics.
We once had to rely on “mainstream media” to cover Gymnastics.
A few TV channels. International Gymnast magazine.
Sports Illustrated … every 4 years.
The situation for fans (and coaches) is much better today.
YOU and anyone online can post your own opinions the sport at no cost. And you might find an audience.
I recall when non-gymnast Spencer Barnes launched The Balance Beam Situation.
Instantly it was my #1 source of information on NCAA Gymnastics.
On the down side, every #hater, #troll and #bully can get online, as well.
Check an AP (mainstream media) article:
The ‘gymternet’: gymnastics’ devoted, sometimes toxic fans
gymnasts commiserate with Simone
Mental blocks are common in Gymnastics.
Simone’s could not have popped up at a worse time.
The one upside of all this publicity is preventing future injuries.
Every gymnast will remember the time the G.O.A.T. withdrew from the Olympics rather than risk getting lost in the air.
Gaar Adams , for example, trained at the Gym that produced the Hamm brothers:
… I tried to push myself past a “twisties” block at the end of one practice in September 2001.
Lost in the air, I fell on my neck and required spinal surgery, a halo brace and four months in a hospital bed.
A shade away from quadriplegia at the age of 13, my dreams of pursuing collegiate and elite gymnastics were over. …
The twisties: My gymnastics career may not have ended in hospital if I’d had a role model like Simone Biles
I’ve seen over a dozen similar stories recounted over recent days.
Victoria Moors, for example.
If it can happen to Simone, it can happen to anyone.
