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Category: spotting
spotting Pommel Mushroom
Yep.
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That’s Frank Szabo who recently relocated from Vancouver to take over the Men’s Program at Manjak’s Gymnastics in Toronto.
one way to spot Yurchenko
wild Tkachev drill
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spotting cast handstand from straddle kip
Vitali Laurentide spotting Bars
I suppose I’d better link to this as it’s gone viral. Gym Magic Gymnastics coach at Ontario Championships.
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Most coaches can recall similar rolling spots over the years. 🙂
great catch, coach
How difficult is it to SPOT a gymnast who accidentally releases at the bottom of a long swing?
Very difficult.
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(via Jennifer Pinches)
Taylor Lindsay-Noel audiocast
Canadian gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel was paralyzed in 2008 training a toe-on double front dismount from Bars. No pit. No spot.
She’s very eloquent. Very active online.
And now she’s launched a podcast called Tea Time with Tay.
In her first podcast Taylor details the day of her life-changing accident.
Here’s her website.
Tom Ammirati – quintuple
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(via Cirque du Soleil Casting)
gymnastics – the less spotting, the better
The advantages of spotting are highly over-rated.
From Dr. Bill Sands, research on emergency rescue spotting:
… the act of rescue spotting is at the very least extraordinarily difficult. The fact that coaches can perform a rescue spot at all is astonishing (and I have seen some spectacular saves, even been the recipient of a few from my coach a million years ago).
However, I believe that the coach, athlete, parent, and legal communities must come to understand the inherent limitations that constrain rescue spotting. Not only is not spotting a fail-safe, sometimes hand spotting of an unplanned fall effectively is IMPOSSIBLE. The impossibility of some hand spotting should be communicated to coaches, athletes, and parents so that all understand the physical and biological constraints on hand spotting and no one expects more from the spotter than the spotter can deliver.
My philosophy is: The Less Spotting, The Better.
Very few spotters are as good as Don Eckert, technical director of Woodward West Gymnastics Camp, here coaching at Stars Gymnastics in Colorado Springs:
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Interesting trivia in North American English terminology:
Hartley Price: Coined the Term “Spotting.” In 1930 Price, recently graduated from Springfield College, was hired to coach at the University of Illinois. He was an excellent recruiter and gathered together some of best gymnasts in the country. He founded the University of Illinois Gymkana which put on shows to raise money and found ways for his gymnasts to earn money to pay their tuition.
“Doc” wasn’t much of a coach. His theory was, “Put the best gymnasts in the country together in the same gymnasium and they’ll coach each other.” That they did, winning five NCAA team titles in eighteen years.
He tried to emphasized safety by painting a large white circles (4′ in diameter) on the gymnasium’s walls. He called these “spots.” When his gymnasts saw the spot, they were supposed to think safety and look for those who could assist them through one element or another. Such assistance became known as “spotting.”
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