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Thursday – WAG Juniors @ 1 p.m, WAG Seniors @ 7 pm
Friday – MAG Juniors @ 1pm, MAG Seniors @ 7 pm
Saturday – WAG Juniors @ 1pm, WAG Seniors @ 7.30pm
Sunday – MAG Seniors @ 1.30pm, MAG Juniors @ 7.30pm

According to USA Gymnastics, Universal Sports, NBC Sports Network and NBC will carry coverage of the competition live this week from Indianapolis. All segments of the competition will be live at PGChamps.com/live with the senior session also available live on Universal Sports or NBC.

Full Twist

Back in the days of narrow rails. Yeesh.

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Competed Monday night Aug 10th.

By day, Miles Avery helps kids flip, tumble and balance at OSEGA Gymnastics in Swannanoa, but on Monday night viewers nationwide will watch him compete on the NBC show “American Ninja Warrior.” …

In June, the owner of OSEGA Gymnastics and a four-time U.S. Olympic gymnastics coach proved age was just a number when he was one of 30 contestants to advance in the competition to the City Final.

At 56, Avery is considered one of the oldest contestants to ever appear on the program. …

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Watch a TV interview filmed at his gym. (VIDEO)

Geoff Britten was best of the 15 who will move on to Las Vegas finale. Miles did not make the cut.

Interesting and difficult.

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8 weeks prior to Worlds. Nile Wilson does a terrific job with this edit.

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(via gymnastikfabriken)

Baz Collie. Physical preparation for Pommels at the 2015 EUG training camp in Tirrenia, Italy. 25 gymnasts from 12 nations. 26 coaches from 13 nations.

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Keep watching for swing handstand conditioning from 1 pommel. And more.

Why we miss Olympic compulsories.

Easier skills done with maximum amplitude. One example from Compulsory Horizontal Bar.

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Casey485 likes Kim Zmeskal competing the same skill.

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Alex Seifert has been a star with Cirque’s La Nouba in Florida for many years now. One of the tallest, most elegant tumblers.

Click PLAY or watch some stage training on YouTube.

Follow him on instagram – asseif.

Kyle posted his DVD on YouTube so more coaches will get to see it. Thanks!

Basic Concept of Spotting – 1:02
Safety Tips – 4:08
Running Tumbling Spotter Progression Skills – 18:26

1 – Handstand chapter – 5:57
2 – Forward Roll Chapter – 7:23
3 – Backward Roll Chapter – 8:46
4 – Front Walkover – 10:12
5 – Back Walkover – 11:37
6 – Cartwheel – 12:47
7 – Standing Back Handspring – 14:08
8 – Standing Back Tuck – 16:26

9 – Running Aerial – 19:35
10 – Running Front Tuck – 21:27
11 – Round-off Back Handspring – 23:27
12 – Round-off Back Handspring Back Tuck – 25:55

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I once saw – in person – Nellie compete a World Cup. In many ways she was even more impressive than Nadia, her great rival.

Who will succeed her as WTC Chair?

Kim, 58, was happy to reminisce about her own time in the sport. “As a gymnast it is a fantastic feeling to be able to do something that people consider impossible,” she says. “Now I think: ‘My gosh, I was able to perform those double saltos and all those rotations in the air’.” …

Kim – who has been involved in some capacity with every Olympics since 1976 – admits she never ceases to be astounded by the evolution of the sport with ever more creative and gravity-defying moves being introduced. …

Grandi claimed the gymnastics he saw at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning were “too much of its acrobatic part and not too much artistry” adding: “Gymnastics is artistic gymnastics, the definition I don’t want to lose.”

It is a subject Kim feels strongly about, but equally is keen to tread carefully on. “The artistry is a very difficult topic to discuss because it is very subjective,” she says. “As a technical committee we are trying to bring everyone as close as possible to our guidelines and give them examples to follow and understand how we think the artistry should be presented.” …

Gymnastics: the legend of Nellie Kim

via GymCastic