With the great former Stanford gymnast Rico Andrade. A new perspective.
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related – Rico’s Double Twisting Kovacs attempt from 2008 (VIDEO).
harder vaults in the NCAA
Now that Yurchenko layout 1/1 is only out of 9.95 maximum, there’s more incentive to compete other vaults.
CalicoIzzy is compiling a list of women competing alternatives.
Yurchenko doubles
Ashleigh Gnat, LSU
Piked front 1/2s
Hunter Price, Oklahoma
Alexis Mattern, Ohio State
Bailey Abernathy, MinnesotaTsuk fulls or Kasamatsu fulls (1/2s?)
Nina McGee, Denver
Emily Richardson, Cal
Mary Jacobsen, Oregon State
Click through to see the rest.
Sarah Finnegan – Beam
Balance Beam Situation – new NCAA rules
Well, well well. Look at yourselves. No 197s. No accidental 10s given for Yurchenko fulls. …
faith bigger than your fears
Gymnastics Bar act 1952
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(via Robert Cowan)
Bars – low to high transfers
Gymneo posted a new coaching tutorial in their French edition. (It will be some months before it gets posted in English.)
Click PLAY or watch a teaser on Facebook.
OK …
:@robdalyphoto“Complete Compulsory Training Guide”
Released January 10th, it’s now on sale HERE. ($199)
Zari Goldmann of Swing Big is offering a coach education package.
The Complete Compulsory Training Guide is meant to be an all-encompassing plan for training gymnasts from pre-team through level 5. It contains 115 pages of ready-to-use circuits and assignments (circuits for pre-team 1 and 2) assignments for levels 3-5 – on all four events. These cover six phases which make up the year. It also includes event specific warm-ups, as well as a “how-to” guide and a few important conditioning tip sheets.
… Complete Compulsory Guide delivers 5 videos (one for each level included) – that show the drills and progressions that may not be obvious from the guide. Together, there are more than 180 minutes of training material.
Here are a couple quick previews:
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
USA / Brazil training camp
Eight members of the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team are participating in a joint training camp with the Brazilian National Team Jan. 10-16 at its training facility, which is attached to the Olympic Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The U.S. and Brazilian squads trained together at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., prior to the 2015 Pan American Games, held last summer in Toronto, Ont., Canada. …
Gymnastics Coaching.com 