Guatemala Age Group camp

This camp, hosted in Guatemala City, was unique in that it was the first one that combined an Olympic Solidarity technical course with the full content and focus of the FIG Age Group Programme for Artistic Gymnastics. Indeed, the entire development and world-wide dissemination of the age group programmes has been subsidised annually by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). …

Guatemala has had a surge of interest in Gymnastics with the success of 2012 and 2016 Olympian Ana Sofía Gómez. …

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Myself and José Súcart were the experts for this one. We both agreed it was as good as any of the 5 day camps we’ve led.

The quality and variety of demonstrators at the Camp was a highlight. Some gymnasts are resident at the Gym, doing their schooling upstairs between training sessions.

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Jorge Vega Lopez, Floor gold medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games, participated as a demonstrator. He was one of the first gymnasts to join the residential school.

Considering they have only 8-9 clubs in the entire nation, Guatemala is doing great things. Beam is particularly strong.

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Marian Dragulescu – Vault

The legend is not quite as good as he once was. But still good enough for the silver medal at Europeans. 🙂

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Jr Men’s European Apparatus Champions

Floor
1 REGINI-MORAN Giarnni GBR 6.000 9.166 15.166
2 MAKOLOV Andrei RUS 5.600 9.100 14.700
3 BONCSER Krisztian HUN 5.800 8.866 14.666

Pommel
1 NAIDIN Sergei RUS 5.800 8.866 14.666
2 McCLENAGHAN Rhys IRL 5.900 8.666 14.566
3 FRASER Joe GBR 5.700 8.633 14.333

Rings
1 KLESSING Nick GER 5.500 8.858 14.358
2 AVETISYAN Artur ARM 5.200 9.100 14.300
3 IUSKAEV Ildar RUS 5.300 8.900 14.200

Vault
1 MAKOLOV Andrei RUS 6 14.983
2 REGINI-MORAN Giarnni GBR 14.966
3 IVANOV Maksym UKR 14.824

P Bars
1 FRASER Joe GBR 5.600 9.133 14.733
2 REGINI-MORAN Giarnni GBR 5.800 8.800 14.600
3 YERMAKOV Eduard UKR 5.800 8.766 14.566

H Bar
1 MAKOLOV Andrei RUS 5.300 8.666 13.966
2 KRATTER Moreno SUI 5.700 8.233 13.933
2 FRASER Joe GBR 5.200 8.733 13.933

Men’s European Apparatus Champions

Floor
1. Nikita Nagornyy (RUS) 15.566
2. Marian Dragulescu (ROU) 15.333
3. Alexander Shatilov (ISR) 15.300

Pommels
1. Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM) 15.366
2. David Belyavskiy (RUS) 15.233
3. Christian Baumann (SUI) 14.900
4. Louis Smith (GBR) 14.733

Rings
1. Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 15.866
2. Vahagn Davtyan (ARM); Denis Ablyazin (RUS) 15.633

Vault
1. Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) (15.366, 15.433) 15.399
2. Artur Davtyan (ARM) (15.400, 15.233); Marian Dragulescu (ROU) (15.433, 15.200) 15.316

P Bars
1. David Belavskiy (RUS) 16.033
2. Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) 15.716
3. Marcel Nguyen (GER) 15.566

H Bar
1. Nile Wilson (GBR) 15.300
2. Kristian Thomas (GBR) 15.000
3. David Belyavskiy (RUS) 14.941
full results

That would be the Longines Prize. 🙂 Stupid auto-correct.

Simone Biles – backward handspring

Long. Resulting in a sharp attack angle.

But is as so often the case, it’s not necessarily the target technique for every gymnast.

Personally I like beginners to do long, low backward handspring series. Later change the technique to whatever works best for each tumbling line.

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on deliberate practice

Wendy Bruce Martin posted an excellent article on Ericsson’s concept of deliberate practice (PDF).

1. The lesson must have clear goals.

2. The lesson must include specific tasks to increase performance.

3. The lesson must include constant monitoring and feedback.

Deliberate training is not as fun and exciting as just chucking tumbling passes. …

Is All Training Created Equal?

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