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Gary Hunt top score in Denmark.
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sponsor a Muslim gymnast
Breaking. Alan Owen is trying to launch a charity where people can sponsor gymnasts in developing nations for about $35 a month.
Nations include Peru, Nicaragua, Chile and Honduras.
I’m hoping it will include Islamic nations, as well.
Opportunities for girls to do gymnastics in Muslim nations are limited. Surprisingly, there are at least two sports centers in Kabul, Afghanistan offering the sport and activity for girls.
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That program is sponsored by the Alzahra Cultural and Sport Association. They could use help.
related – Malaysian gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Had was a star at the SEA Games. Predictably some Muslims criticized her for wearing a leotard.
Personally, I feel female gymnasts should be allowed to wear bike shorts over their leotards, if they prefer. Does FIG already allow leotards with built-in shorts?
quadruple turn?
Aliya Mustafina’s quadruple turn was downgraded to triple in the European Games Final.
Would you have given it?
That was linked by wogymnastika.
Japanese teams for Worlds
MAG
Kohei Uchimura
Yusuke Tanaka
Ryohei Kato
Kazuma Kaya
Tomomasa Hasegawa
Kenzo Shirai
WAG
Aiko Sugihara
Natsumi Sasada
Asuka Teramoto
Sakura Yumoto
Yuki Uchiyama
Sae Miyakawa
(via gymfanjapan and Nico on GymFever2012)
Lieke Wevers – Beam
Gold at European Games. Layout gainer dismount is a D-part.
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related – Bea Gheorghisor – Euro Games: The Event Finals
European Games format
For the first time in the same competition, our six disciplines, four Olympic (MAG, WAG, RG, TRA) and two non-Olympic disciplines (AER, ACRO) are gathered.
All finales will take place according to the principle of an alternation between two disciplines. Men’s artistic gymnastics with women’s artistic gymnastics, rhythmic (Olympic) with acrobatic (non-Olympic), trampoline (Olympic) with Aerobic (non-Olympic). …
… artistic, with an all-around final with 18 gymnasts instead of 24 and the apparatus finals with 6 instead of 8 gymnasts. …
The main booster of the European Games format is Georges Guelzec, President of the European Union of Gymnastics. He’s running to succeed Bruno Grandi as the next FIG President.
related – Arabian Punch Front – Stars of the First European Games
Jake Dalton – tap swing
Great drill by a great gymnast. Jake was demonstrating for coach Dave Juszczyk.
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Don’t expect your beginners to swing like Jake. Older, taller gymnasts with long limbs have a biomechanical advantage. It’s easier to snap a longer whip than a shorter one.
Be patient with your shortest, youngest kids. Swing technique takes time.
European Games Apparatus Finals
VAULT
Giulia Steingruber (SUI) (15.566, 14.433) 14.999
Seda Tutkhalyan (RUS) (14.833, 14.533) 14.683
Lisa Top (NED) (14.133, 13.900) 14.016
BARS
Aliya Mustafina (RUS) 15.400
Sophie Scheder (GER) 15.200
Andreea Iridon (ROU) 12.800
The medalists are the first 3 competitors on this video. Iridon collected a Bronze with a fall. 😦
BEAM
Lieke Wevers (NED) 14.200
Andreea Iridon (ROU) 14.000
Giulia Steingruber (SUI) 13.700
FLOOR
Giulia Steingruber (SUI) 14.266
Aliya Mustafina (RUS) 14.200
Lieke Wevers (NED) 13.800
Some controversy on who deserved the Gold on Floor Exercise.
FLOOR
Rayderley Miguel Zapata Santana (ESP) 15.333
Fabian Hambuechen (GER) 15.100
David Belyavskiy (RUS) 15.000
POMMEL
Saso Bertoncelj (SLO) 14.966
Oleg Stepko (AZE) 14.600
Brinn Bevan (GBR) 14.200
RINGS
Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 15.633
Nikita Ignatyev (RUS) 15.333
Ibrahim Colak (TUR) 15.133
VAULT
Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) (15.400, 15.133) 15.266
Casimir Schmidt (NED) (15.033, 15.200) 15.116
Oleg Stepko (AZE) (14.933, 15.000) 14.966
PARALLEL BARS
Oleg Stepko (AZE) 15.733
David Belyavskiy (RUS) 15.700
Marius Daniel Berbecar (ROU) 15.600
(Verniaiev 14.633)
HORIZONTAL BAR
Fabian Hambuechen (GER) 15.533
Vlasios Maras (GRE) 15.366
Nikita Ignatyev (RUS) 15.166
results via GYMMIN’ MIEL!
official – 1st European Games: competition report artistic gymnastics event finals:
9 countries divided the 10 event final titles with Azerbaijan clinching its first gold for host nation in gymnastics!
Click PLAY or watch Oleg Stepko’s P Bars on YouTube.
Oleg will be a national hero with that Gold medal. World Champion Verniaiev took an extra swing.
Mustafina – Bars
Kids in Action Gymnastics
I dropped in to see coach Leonard Isaacs at his new club in Lake Barrington outside Chicago.
Owner Gary Griffin brought Leonard in to KIAGA – a gorgeous, clean 23,000 square foot facility only 3 years old.
Leonard Isaacs and Bill Sands were the first Elite American coaches I ever followed. They coached together in Chicago a … few years ago. 🙂
Both are still two of the gurus that influence me most as a coach.
Leonard is an advisor and consultant to Tumbl Trak, coming up with new innovations to make Gymnastics training safer. This time he showed me a series of non-spotting progressions for teaching high to low “Bail” handstand on Bars. That video will be released soon.
Here’s a background article on Kids in Action – KIAGA’s Coach Gary.
related – Leonard Isaacs – saving handstand
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