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Want to be a better coach?

Kelly Manjak posted both a link to his 5yr-old son doing gymnastics (cute) … and a link to this list from Aussie consultant Wayne Goldsmith:

1. Train harder;
2. Train smarter;
3. Train harder and smarter;
4. Improve your leadership skills;
5. Consistently out-prepare everyone in your competition;
6. Dream bigger;
7. Believe in yourself;
8. Back yourself;
9. Get up faster when you are knocked down or face adversity;
10. Get tougher mentally;

click through to see the rest – Sports Coaching Brain → 50 Ways to Enhance your Coaching Performance in High Performance Sport.

by site editor Rick McCharles

Shout out to the recently expanded Campia Gymnastics for hosting the past 2 days of our Men’s Gymnastics Canada Winter Games Training Camp.

Looks like we killed this one.

This hip bar mat is perfect. (I stuffed it in my gymbag before departing Campia.)

Campia Coaches stayed after workout Tuesday night to participate in the USAproject2012 LIVE presentation → Mary Lee Tracy – Tumbling complex for floor

If your club can’t afford the high price ($199 / night), you could check out the free video clips (over 200) posted on the USAproject2012 YouTube channel.

UPDATE: There’s some kind of promotion offering free access for July 6 and July 13th … but I’m not sure how you can get those. Leave a comment if you know how.

This funny photo is making the rounds …

Shaun White, two-time Olympic gold medalist in Snowboard, “The Flying Tomato“, considers cutting off his famous hair.

Click PLAY or watch elbow Circles using a Bucket on YouTube.

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Click PLAY or watch Common Mistake on YouTube.

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Click PLAY or watch Learn a Straight Body Circle on YouTube.

I like this approach → exaggerate the arch of the hips and trunk at this stage.

If you like these, consider asking your club to sign up for a Gymnastics on Demand subscription ($9.95/month), access to over 800 WAG and MAG coaching videos.

This is another of those insane Japanese reality TV shows.

Click PLAY to watch Naoki Iketani clear 21 levels in 2009 on YouTube.

Couch Gymnast posted a link to a women’s 2005 competition filmed in Athens featuring Svetlana Khorkina, Anna Pavolova and others.

It’s not on TV where I’m at. Too bad.

This episode I really wanted to see.

After being allowed back on the U.S. National Team, the girls head to France where everything is left on the mat in order to get one step closer to achieving their dream. With cockiness, jealousy, sabotage and self-doubt at an all-time high, as well as Ellen Beals constantly looming over the girls, the pressure is almost too much to bear. …

(via Just Jared)

Fueled by Subway and Nastia Liukin?

Rest in peace.

Suddenly at home, in his 59th year, on Tuesday, June 29, 2010.

Loving husband of Doina, and proud father of Diana and Larissa.

Nick and Doina founded the Hamilton Mountain Gymnastics Center in 1985 after moving to Canada from Romania. …

obituary

If you know NIck you can leave a note of condolence here.

This is Ariel on holidays in B.C.

… dedicated to the talented Ukrainian Artistic Gymnast Krystina!

Krystina is the All Around Silver Medallist of the 2010 Nadia Comaneci International Invitational. She is also the two-time Bronze medallist at the 2010 CIS and Baltic States Junior Championships in the All Around, and Floor Exercise! Krystina has also competed at the 2010 WOGA Classic and at the 2010 European Championship. …

official website

Formerly I said that Artistic gymnasts were the fittest female athletes.

No more. In 2010 the top CrossFit women are more “fit” than the best Artistic girls.

That’s quite new.

CrossFit is a strength and conditioning fitness methodology that promotes broad and general overall physical fitness. CrossFit combines weightlifting, sprinting, and gymnastics. CrossFit says that proficiency is required in each of ten fitness domains: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, balance, coordination, and accuracy. …

Gymnastics coach and judge Jeff MacRae took me to a regular CrossFit workout at his gym in Charlottetown, PEI.

Conveniently, CrossFit PEI is located right beside his gymnastics club.

Jeff’s only recently taken up the sport yet qualified to National Championships for the first time in 2010. (Inconveniently Crossfit Nationals conflicted with Artistic Gymnastics Nationals.)

Jeff is certified as a “gymnastics expert” in Crossfit. Indeed he’s scheduled to teach several “gymnastics” workshops across Atlantic Canada.

Crossfit is booming. If you’ve not yet checked it out yourself, stop by your local club. My preconceptions that it would be dangerous, participants using bad technique, turned out to be unfounded. Jeff cannot recall a serious injury at his program over the past 2yrs.