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Teaching Blind Change and Giant 1/1 on the Bar is problematic.

Many things can go wrong. Worst is when the gymnast gets stuck on 1-arm … and falls on the Rail. 😦

Like most coaches I’ve tried hundreds of different drills.

Here is my favourite series of drills, starting on Floor Bar.

1. kick handstand

2. kick handstand to reverse pirouette, step down on the other side

3. kick handstand to reverse pirouette, forward pirouette same hand

4. IF the gymnast gets a good reverse pirouette, finish the Giant 1/1
… if not, forward pirouette on the same hand as in 3

Step 3 is the most important. This is where they learn to support with and torque on one hand. This is where things go wrong. This is where they learn what to do when things go wrong. 🙂

Challenge the gymnasts to make 20 Giant 1/1s in series without missing. They’ll learn to CHEAT. Doing the reverse pirouette on the way up, and quickly finishing the 1/1.

That’s great. But the cheater Giant 1/1 does not finish in handstand. It finishes short of handstand.

5. Work the Giant 1/1 and Giant 1 ½. From pike jump if the goal is toe hand into the 1/1.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

My main coaching advice on the reverse pirouette is to always reach fast, and reach far. Beginners get in trouble when their hands are too close together. And might get stuck on 1-arm if they reach slowly or tentatively.

Thanks Michael and Courtney. 🙂

related:

• TumblTrak’s Quick Flex Bar-in-a-Bag

• Steve Arkel drill on Tramp

• Zari Goldmann Twisty Turny — It’s a progression — Blind changes

• Hideo Mizoguchi blind change drill

The traditional system training swing 1/2 turns until you reach handstand is slower. And some kids get stuck (forever) finishing short of handstand.

Leave a comment or link if you have your own favourite system for introducing Blind Change.

From the team behind THE INVISIBLE WAR, comes a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families.

Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they pursue their education while fighting for justice — despite harsh retaliation, harassment and pushback at every level.

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Mashable – Young women are the heroes of campus rape doc ‘The Hunting Ground’

A new fitness campaign from Reebok is odd, but inspiring.

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The new Delta logo evokes change.

… its biggest marketing campaign in over a decade. …

“Be More Human” is being referred to as Reebok’s rally cry to consumers, urging them to live up to their full potential. …

Forbes

(via Hardbody)

Click PLAY or watch a promo on YouTube.

NastiaFan recommended this routine. And he watches a LOT of routines.

Mary Beth starts the WAVE mid-routine. Now that’s brilliant NCAA choreography. 🙂

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repost from last January___

Dr. Bill Sands as put up some preliminary data from his proposed crowdsourced national injury database for gymnastics.

Only 103 injury reports, so far, but here’s a sample graphic showing the kind of visuals that can be produced.

See other graphs like this here.

The more injury reports submitted, the better. If you’ve got some injury stats from your club, please click over to gymnasticsinjurydata.com and contribute. It’s completely anonymous. This could be very valuable.

In the first of two competitions this weekend. LSU up next.

@OU_WGymnastics:

OKLAHOMA WINS! The #Sooners finish with a 197.650 and now own the nation’s top three team scores of 2015! #BOOMER”

http://instagram.com/p/ycngzMOx1C/

Gymnastics Canada on Facebook | official schedule | Quick Facts | results | all WAG results 1-page | videos | photos

Be aware that not many of the top Seniors peaked for this competition, MAG or WAG. Most did not compete AA. It was a good opportunity for up-and-coming contenders to make a splash.

$2.99

Android only, for now. Apple version in the works.

Filter all 500+ elements from the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Code Of Points by apparatus, difficulty value and element group.

It’s called Gymnastics Code of Points (WA) in the Google PLAY store.

Leave a comment if you’ve tried it.

Thanks Ben.

____ related:

• CodeOfPoints.com

• GymDrills.net Code of Points Browser (free registration required)

Update – Information is being posted on the Gymnastics Canada Facebook.

___original post:

Gymnastics Canada is notoriously poor at communicating their stories. One of the poorest of the top Gymnastics nations.

If you go to their home page right now, you’ll see no indication that one of the biggest competitions of the seasons is happening.

If you click through to NEWS, there’s no news about Elite Canada. 😦

Trois-Rivières, Quebec
JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There’s no competition today Thursday, only men’s physical ability testing.

MEN’S Thursday schedule

Olympic gymnast Ellie Black begins her 2015 season this weekend at Elite Canada in Trois-Rivieres, Que. …

With a World Cup event in Texas in early March, and an international team competition in Italy later in March, Black, a two-time Canadian all-around champion, will limit herself to competing on the balance beam this week. …

Herald

We’re hoping to see these two Olympians back together again. 🙂

WOMEN’S Thursday schedule

I’m getting the schedule from Gymnastics BC who posted the Technical document here.