I popped in for the first day of the annual Washington State Gymnastics Clinic to show the new Tumbl Trak Laser Beam.
Emerald City Gymnastics is a terrific host. Two large gymnasiums. Plenty of classroom space.
learning the new Compulsories
On Friday, All Around State champions from level 7,8,9,10, about 40 girls, worked with 5 coaches: John Carney from Missouri, Justin Howell from Cal Berkley, Ivan Alexov from the Mac Club in Portland and the Head Women’s Team Coach from Bulgaria, Connie Maloney from USAG and Nola Ayers a Judge and famous High School Gymnastics Coach in Washington State.
This weekend, Thursday 25th – Sunday 28th July, Ireland will welcome two time Olympian Hannah Whelan and London 2012 Olympian Rebecca Tunney to a WAG Summer Camp in Galway.
Joining the Olympians will be their City of Liverpool coach Claire Louise Duffy, Senior team mate and British Silver All Around Champion Charlie Fellows and junior, Olivia Williams. Also attending will be esteemed choreographer Daniela Nanova, a former Bulgarian Artistic and Rhythmic gymnast. …
I really enjoyed episode 41 of the GymCastic audiocast.
Especially the wide ranging interview with one of the highest potential Juniors in the world, Laurie Hernandez, and her straight talking coach Maggie Haney.
Lauren “Laurie”/ “Baby Shakira” Hernandez turns 16 right before the 2016 Olympic Games. She completely stole the show at the 2012 Secret Classic in Chicago and she’ll be back this weekend.
In our interview she told us her epic wipeout stories, opinion of cutsie routines, which area of The Ranch should be filmed for a TV show [Gymnastike! That question was for you!] and cultivating her signature style.
Her coach, Maggie Haney talks about the pressure of coaching a gymnast who’s routines stop traffic, her difficulty vs execution strategy, the advice Marta Karolyi gave her, teaching her athletes how to lose as well as win, dealing with burnout when she was done racking up perfect 10s at North Carolina State University, giving birth just days before returning to the gym to coach and the appropriate amount of time to keep a floor routine.
Scherbo did exactly this. I recall him, at age-17, putting the Spring board UP on to the legs of the old vault horse. Far closer than any other international competitor.
It’s counter-intuitive, but fact is that weak, slow beginners need move the Spring board back. Or lower the horse.
Warren Long taught me more than all the many professors I had. His cheerful demeanor in the face of difficulties, his intense curiosity about everything, his great physical skills, his warmth and friendship set a standard that I’ve tried to meet in the years following college. This picture is from the compulsory round of the 1975 NCAAs. — with Warren Long at Indiana State University.
Warren competed for Cal. And was later named to the Canadian 1980 and 1984 Olympic Teams. He was a Vault finalist in Los Angeles.
Today Warren is still in the gym coaching. His son is a gymnast, too.
That was shared with a private Facebook group called NCAA MEN’S GYMNASTICS ALUMNI.
1996: Simona Amanar (ROM): double-twisting Yurchenko, Tsukahara to a layout Arabian front off
1992: Henrietta Onodi (HUN): full-twisting Yurchenko, handspring piked front with a half twist, Lavinia Milosovici (ROM): full-twisting Yurchenko, handspring tucked front with a half twist
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