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Gabby Douglas ups the BAR

Looks like we’ll see a new routine at Pacific Rims.

Click PLAY or watch her Podium training in Seattle on YouTube.

Compare that with her American Cup routine.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Skyler asks ‘What’s the difficulty score of the new routine?’

Kyla Ross – Amanar

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s from the USAG YouTube channel.

overload training

Wayne Goldsmith‘s best ever coaching advice:

Make Training More Challenging and More Demanding than the Competition you are preparing for.

Confidence, real confidence, confidence that provides real resilience and the capacity to perform under pain, pressure and fatigue, comes from knowing that your preparation was more challenging and more demanding than the competition could ever be. …

read more on Sport Coaching Brain – One Tip to Rule Them All

Train Bars like Beth Tweddle.

iPad in the gym

Over the past week we’ve been using an iPad in the gym pretty much non-stop. It’s a winner. We’re using the Swim Coach Plus HD ($2.99) video app. Excellent.

Whether you like it or not, this is the year of the iPad. It’s soon going to be everywhere.

Grace Chiu snapped this pic of judges using them for analysis during Gymnix podium training.

See more of Grace’s Gymnix photos on Examiner.

UPDATE from Grace:

Haha… that was a posed shot… We don’t judge using iPads. We keep our documents, like the Code, Help Desk, Models, clarifications there so they’re at our fingertips and we don’t have to print loads of paper and lug around 4-inch binders. Plus, it holds up my ProScore keypad.

related – The iPad Is Unbeatable

Why Apple’s tablet competitors don’t stand a chance—and maybe never will.

head position in gymnastics

A very detailed and original discussion on this important topic.

… the role human head position plays in Artistic Gymnastics Performance.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (10min)

Nick Blanton‘s is the definitive word on head position. Leave a comment if you know of any other resource similar.

What would change if humans had eyes in the back of their heads? Or on top? 🙂

UPDATE from Nick:

I started my “research” on head position after I went to the UEG Clinic in 2008 in Tirrenia, Italy. One of the coaches, Valentin Potapenko, was the former Soviet Union’s acrobatics coach – the “brains” behind the triple back.

Valentin was a big advocate of positioning of the head during tumbling and acrobatics. Ever since his lectures I have become fascinated with the positioning of the head and its effects. That video was an initial project into the venture – I am sure at some point I will update another video, or paper, highlighting further information…

Bars: Gina Nuccio, Kat Ding

Balance Beam Situation:

… They’re the last Suzanne gymnasts on this Georgia team, and to me, they are this Georgia team. …

Click PLAY or watch them on YouTube.

Seniors we’ll miss.

NCAA Champion – Jessie DeZiel?

I’ve seen a few predictions.

Manual on Handstands: is impressed:

… Jessie DeZiel competes like a seasoned veteran rather than a freshman. She has competed in the all-around every meet this year and has hit 100% of her routines. How many other NCAA freshmen have done this, and can DeZiel finish the season with a 100% hit rate? …

Shocker of the Season: Nebraska at Utah (03/09/12)

Click PLAY or watch her Vault on YouTube.