It looks like she would have been OK landing hands and knees on that excellent mat, but coach does react well.
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Category: spotting
apparatus to simulate diving on dry land
How does it work?
- Athlete wears a body harness that attaches to the middle of the mechanism
- The athlete is secured tightly around the waist and close to the bar
- The athlete completes the number of flips required for the dive
- The athlete then holds at the vertical position and the spotter stops the wheel
Divers’ secret weapon
Click the image to see it at work with coach Joel Rodriguez at the New South Wales Institute of Sport in Australia.
Thanks Tom.
spotting Free Hip
Watch coach Franki when a gymnasts slips on the ascending swing.
#WomenCanSpotBars 🙂
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spotting Men on Horizontal Bar
Extremely difficult. A bad idea in most cases, I’d say. You are just as likely to cause an injury as prevent one.
Almost all male gymnasts try to land flat when they miss, absorbing the impact over as much surface area as possible
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safe, ethical spotting
In Canada we’ve long told coaches when spotting not to touch any part of the body covered by a bikini bathing suit. (Hips are an occasional exception.)
One gymnast messaged me to speak of her personal experience.
The Gym was her second home. As a little girl it was common for the coach to spot touching the buttocks of kids in her group.
By age 16 she became very uncomfortable with her coach spotting this way. She told him repeatedly to cut it out. He seemed unable to spot using any other technique.
Finally a less experience female coach was able to spot without grabbing the buttocks.
Here’s her message:
“… It is difficult to write about things that have become so normal and were never perceived as “wrong” by me. Coaches spot small girls on their bottoms from the very beginning, and this goes on as they get older. Almost maybe unaware of their own physical change and the innocence that goes paired with a coach following the way he spotted you from the very beginning. But the coach is the adult and especially at a higher level strong power relations can be involved.
Then suddenly you move to a new gym with new coaches and your eyes are opened. opening change… Something you thought to be impossible is suddenly is so easy. … the realization of the past kicks in. …
This is one of the many unintended consequences of spotting. The less spotting the better.
spotting double double off Bars
Heart this on Tumblr.
spotting boxes for Bars
Al Fong perfected the science of using spotting boxes for teaching Bars. It’s a portable channel pit that can be changed around depending on the level of gymnasts and target skill.
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Tumbl Trak is now selling Al’s system. Cost for the package is $2275.
Carolann Heduit – Bars
Great potential for the Junior from France.
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It’s my feeling coaches should either spot or get away from the apparatus. One or the other.
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single spotting flyaways
LOTs of work for the spotter.
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Spot too many and some kids get dependent.
The real coaching challenge is removing the spot. Having kids get through the first several hundred alone without hitting the Bar.
Men’s Best Scores of 2017
Uncle Tim updated his UTRS (Uncle Tim Ranking System).
The top scoring H Bar routine is 15.0 for Xiao Ruoteng. Here’s his most recent set.
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6.2 + 8.333 = 14.533
4 Tkachevs? That’s too many. FIG MTC has been successful in decreasing the number of ugly Rybalko skills, but the rules should encourage a variety of different releases.
Also … is coach actually going to try to slow him down if he misses one of those Tkachevs? That’s a tough spot.
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