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Men’s Euros Apparatus Finals

If you missed all that on the weekend, Amanda Turner has her usual succinct summary and results.

Russia’s Denis Ablyazin and Great Britain’s Nile Wilson (Jr) each captured three event titles as the 2014 European Championships ended in Sofia. …

Britain’s Max Whitlock defeated Olympic champion Krisztian Berki on pommel horse with an outstanding routine that earned 16.166 (7.3 Difficulty).


Ablyazin, Wilson Dominate European Finals

Men’s Gymnastics Perspective – Euros Senior Team Final Thoughts

Click PLAY or watch Max Whitlock’s PH on YouTube.

Not very stretched. But excellent control.

Judges gave him credit for full spindle in one circle.

related – FIG – Ablyazin, Russians lead the way as Europeans end

Power Tumbling documentary

Features Canadian coach & competitor Denis Vachon. Good luck to all the Tumblers at CDN Nationals this week.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

POWER TUMBLING was produced by Humber Broadcast Television Videography student Taylor Amaya with the help of his peers Holly Kenmire, Jessica Tessier, Stefanie Simone and Cian O’Sullivan.

“Winning Gymnastics” archive

Here’s a page to bookmark. Dr. Gerald S. George’s eNewsletter archive. Just a few of the topics covered already:

Mastery of Body Shape
Body-Extension Twist
On-Ground Twisting
Somersault Rotation
A Closer Look at the Stalder
The Tangent Release Principle
Giant Swing Efficiency
Developing Handstand Tension
Shape Up Your Handstand
10 Concepts of Impact
Leg Impact and Landing
Late Sighting
Early Sighting
3 Phases of a Handspring Vault
Hurdle Trajectory
Pre-flight Trajectory
Pst-flight Trajectory
Trajectory-Rotation Relationship
Lift
Rotation
Travel

Part 4 – Gymnastics Technique – Factors Affecting Success
Sureness of Execution
Psychological Readiness–The Ultimate Domain

Part 3 – Gymnastics Technique – Factors Affecting Success
Learning vs. Performance
Skill Sequencing
Compensatory Skills–the Achilles Heel

Part 2 – Gymnastics Technique – Factors Affecting Success
Mastery of Basic Skills (continued from Part 1)
Persistent Use of Repetitions
Use of Appropriate Skill Progressions
Gymnastics Technique – Factors Affecting Success
A Long and Winding Road
All Systems GO
Mastery of Basic Skills
It All Starts in Your Mind’s Eye
The Ideal Model Concept
The Secret to McKayla Maroney’s Vaulting Success
The Staircase Effect
Concepts of Uneven Bars
Dancing with the Bars
Concepts of Vaulting
Fundamental Vaulting Concepts
Minimizing the Board Setting
Concepts of Balance Beam
In-Line Space
Mastering Skills at Ground Level
Concepts of Floor Exercise
Flight
Three Dimensional Space
Concepts of Gymnastics Training
The Gymnast’s Physical Readiness
The Mechanics of Rotation and Twisting
Three types of rotary movement

See MORE on the Archive.

winning gymnastics

Thanks again to Championships Gymnastics, the book, for advertising on this site.

CDN Nationals Seniors

Grace Chiu is posting podium training photos to Facebook.

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We’ve got a big and (hopefully healthy) field of MAG competitors, as well.

new FIG elements from Europeans

The All Around posted a document on Facebook listing new elements submitted for addition to the WAG Code following European Championships 2014.

SuperGymmie put together a video showing some of those elements. (One has been edited to show what it must have looked like.)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Are these skills approved? Or only submitted?

Thanks Avril.

quick links

MAG scores 2014 | WAG UTRS 2013 and TAA 2014

Canadian Championships #cangym2014 | Facebook | Twitter | preview | official RESULTS | RESULTS | Photos | LIVE video stream

Temple men’s gymnastics hangs on

That’s the headline on philly.com:

If pledges turn into checks, Fred Turoff will have a 39th season as Temple’s men’s gymnastics coach.

His team won’t be a varsity program after it was cut by the athletic department. As a club team, it won’t be allowed to practice while the varsity women are using the equipment, he said. And Turoff has to clear out of his office, which is practically a gymnastics hall of fame. …

Read more …

Temple

via GymCastic

Denis Ablyazin 4 golds at Euros

Team, Floor, Rings, Vault

Congratulations.

Coach Valery Alfosov and Ablyazin himself were happily surprised with the medal haul.

Denis

RRG – Denis Ablyazin : Again, into battle

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related – Mama, don’t cry! Olympic medallist Denis Ablyazin’s mum speaks out about her son …