Dr. Jeni McNeal (in mountain bike helmet) at the Big Blue Adventure Race Lake Tahoe.
larger original – flickr
Jeni went over the handle bars recently. No doubt all that gymnastics landing training helped her soften the landing.
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extreme handstand stunts
Quite a few tricks I’ve never seen before.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Tim, age-21, from Derby in England trains “Parkour/Free running, bboying, Calithenics, Puma Style”.
(via FlipCatch)
If you like this video, check out handbalancing freak (video).
Alegria: Extreme Vision Documentary
Nicely edited staff documentary from 2007.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (10min)
Documentary Part 2 – YouTube
disclosure – I love Cirque du Soleil
Halloween prank – Ke Hexin
My Halloween costume is now finished.
Today, I am “16†year old Chinese gymnast and Olympic gold medalist He Kexin and I have the id to prove it.
larger size – flickr – amendz
The Olympic Bars Champion can laugh now. She’s been officially declared of legal age by the International Gymnastics Federation.
Gymnastics Superstar Tour – High Bar
This bit of illegal camera phone video is so … mangled that I found it interesting right to the end of the 3min.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Terrible music, though.
🙂
IZOD Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The Gymnastics Library – CD PLUS
The free November calendar is available in PDF format linked from GymnasticsTrainingTips.com
Linked from that same page, Rik Feeney has a NEW offer: The Gymnastics Library – CD PLUS ($297). It’s a digital compilation of the following books:
• 101 Ways to Increase Class Enrollment & Bottom Line Profit ($37.00)
• How to Hire Great Coaches and Instructors ($37.00)
• Employee Guidelines (editable employee manual) ($47.00)
• Welcome to the Team (editable guidelines document) (47.00)
• Fabulous Brochures and Newsletters ($27.00)
• Gymnastics Business Forms ($37.00)
• GymText (editable information) (47.00)
• Create Exciting Lesson Plans ($27.00)
There’s much, much more.
Check it out: GymnasticsTrainingTips.com
Could be a good investment for your club.
gymnast Takehiro Kashima retires
One of the great ones is hanging up the grips at age-28.
The veteran Kashima has been one of Japan’s most graceful and successful gymnasts in recent history, with nine world and Olympic medals. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, he helped secure Japan’s victory. In August, he helped Japan win the silver behind China at the Olympics in Beijing. …
Elegant and a great swinger, he’s best remembered as the 2004 Olympic Pommel Champion. But Kashima won the World Championships on Horizontal Bar in 2003, as well.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
He plans to become a coach after his final competition, to be held Nov. 15-16 …
International Gymnast
Gymnastics Canada – CANGYM
Attention Recreation Program Directors.
I’m impressed with the 2nd Edition of the CANGYM recreation program developed by Gymnastics Alberta. It’s a significant improvement on the original.
The CANGYM National Badge Program is Gymnastics Canada’s National Skill Development and Evaluation program for Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. This program is intended for use with participants of varying abilities aged 6 and older, including beginner level participants through to entry level competitive gymnasts. …
The CANGYM Program binder is bilingual and comes complete with 5 distinct badge description sections outlining the skills in each level, and also includes original Participant Evaluation Forms and Progress Reports, along with Certificates of Participation and Completion that can be given to the participants. In addition, the CANGYM program includes a selection of Sample Coach’s comments and Routines which coaches can utilize near the end of the term. …
It’s a big binder with supporting documentation available on disk. There is no on-line support, however.
CANGYM is expensive at $110 from Gymnastics Canada. But a club needs purchase only 1 copy. Everything is photocopy ready. In fact, I would say it’s a bargain. I’m not aware of any other badge system as good.
The artwork has been completely redone. I like the new look:
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The program is not perfect for every club, but it’s a great “starting point” for building your own program.
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The most controversial part is the CANGYM badge program. Many clubs use it. Others clubs divide each badge level into two parts. Some clubs even produce their own badges rather than use those supplied with CANGYM ($2.50ea).
Overall, I highly recommend the binder as a resource for every recreation program.
details – Gymnastics Canada
gymnastics strength – hollow to arch
Instructional video for hollow and tight arch position strength. Subscribe to more gymnastics training videos at Gymnastics on Demand.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnast.com.
http://gymnast.com/flashplayer/FlashPlayer.swf?v=http://www.gymnast.com/media/gymnast//upload/Videos/TTs/MidSection/800-01.flv&eb=1&ap=1&av=sportnet.gy.videos&pv=video&szv=320×240&apv=doubleclick
how Nastia won the Olympics
This may yet be taken down. Watch it now.
Click PLAY or watch all 4 apparatus on YouTube.
What are her B-score deductions on that vault?
She scored 9.525.
A slightly higher resolution version here.
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