Susie gets her kip
From Santa:
… He went straight to his work,
filled the stockings with haste
then came back to the cupcakes
to have a quick taste.“Everyone does cookies
But cupcakes are so hip!”
Winking he added,
“Tell Susie I left her a kip.” …
Click through to read the entire poem from Anne Josephson. 🙂
Santa splits
Thanks Dana.
Feliz Navidad
Jingle Bells Christmas. 🙂
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Merry Christmas
GymnasticsProgressions.com
It’s here. Justin Laury’s Gymnastics Progressions website has launched just in time for Christmas. 🙂
Great gymnastics drills. Very good editing. You could buy a $7.99 Monthly Subscription.
They also sell coaching tutorial videos. For example, $9.99 gets you …
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Here are some of the contributors from Euro Star.
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related – Celebrity gymnasts and coaches testimonials. (VIDEO)
backyard Bag Jump
“tilt twisting”
A body is somersaulting in space, forward or backward.
Anything that makes the body asymmetrical, causes the body to tilt to the left or right.
For example, this guy lifts his left arm, drops his right arm. He tilts as shown in green.
Why? Newton’s 3rd law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite (concurrent) reaction. The body moves in the opposite direction to the arms.
Many gymnasts don’t realize they are tilted. But it’s important to coaches for one BIG reason. The gymnast should un-tilt before coming back to earth. They want to finish the salto symmetrical in most cases.
For example, if the gymnast above wanted to land and stick that twisting skill, he’d move his arms back to where they started. He would un-tilt.
That’s all a coach needs to know about tilt, in my opinion. Too much biomechanical analysis can be worse than not enough. 🙂
If you want to know more, Google Fred Yeadon. One of the top twisting experts. Here’s one of his many articles – Physics World – The physics of twisting somersaults.
The resource I’ve used all my life was written by Hardy Fink.
Technique – An insight into the Biomechanics of Twisting
Tokyo Olympic stadium cut back
Japan chose a scaled-down design Tuesday for the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, five months after scrapping the initial design and construction plan for being too costly. …
New: 153 billion yen ($1.23 billion)
Old: 252 billion yen ($2.08 billion)
The original stadium proposal would have been the most expensive stadium ever built.
what Susie wants for Christmas
Did you guess?
That’s from JagGym – Dear Santa
related – When Will My Susie Start Kipping? 🙂 (VIDEO)
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