If you travel with a roller, check this out.
The Morph Collapsible Foam Roller. Collapse. Stash. Go.
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cover boy Arthur Nory
Brazilian athletes will be getting a LOT of coverage in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics.
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Thanks Ricard.
Morgan Hurd – Beam acro
#eveofchristmasevecoaching with dominoes
Not Domino’s. That’s pizza. 🙂
Tips & Tricks by GymTactics. Formerly JAO.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The Hard Way – Reina Beltman
Dutch gymnast Reina Beltman suffered mental blocks. Being a high performance gymnast is never easy.
Click PLAY or watch her THWTS trailer on YouTube.
FIG Age Group videos WAG
The Age Group Development and Competition Programs include a testing and monitoring and development program for MAG, WAG and RG physical abilities and technical skills as well as a complete two-stream multi-level competition program with modified rules for age-group gymnasts and compulsory exercises for all ages.
It also includes a variety of additional information related to developing a systematic gymnastics program that can lead to high performance. …
The entire program is intended to serve as an athlete centered “recipe” for non-experts and for federations that do not have the expertise or resources to develop their own programs. They are intended to safely and systematically prepare gymnasts towards high performance below the junior level. …
AGE GROUP DEVELOPMENT and COMPETITION PROGRAM for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics can be downloaded free from this FIG Coach Education page. (English, Français, Español)
Videos support 3 sections of that document.
1) Physical Ability Testing
Click PLAY or watch a SAMPLE strength test on YouTube.
2) Technical Ability Testing
Click PLAY or watch a Bars SAMPLE test on YouTube.
3) Competition
Click PLAY or watch a SAMPLE routine on YouTube – HP Compulsory 3 Floor.
Browse the full playlist – FIG Women’s Artistic Age Group (172 videos)
Shout out to Lilia Ortiz López of Mexico for assembling these videos. 🙂
FIG Age Group videos MAG
Shout out to Derick Scholtz of South Africa for putting together these videos.
Derick edited both the first and second versions of this resource. South Africa has used the program from the beginning.
AGE GROUP DEVELOPMENT and COMPETITION PROGRAM for Men’s Artistic Gymnastics can be downloaded free from this FIG Coach Education page. (English, Français, Español)
Videos support 3 sections of that document.
1) Physical Ability Testing
Click PLAY or watch a SAMPLE flexibility test on YouTube.
2) Technical Ability Testing
Click PLAY or watch a Pommel SAMPLE test on YouTube.
3) Competition
Click PLAY or watch a SAMPLE routine on YouTube – HP Compulsory 3 Floor.
Browse the full playlist – FIG Men’s Artistic Age Group (239 videos)
It’s a good resource even for coaches who don’t use the Age Group Program.
top British gymnast scores 2015
AA and apparatus are posted on British Gymnewstics:
1. 57.75 Ellie Downie GB v Holland
2. 56.65 Amy Tinkler British Championships
3. 56.623 Ellie Downie Euros AA
4. 56.466 Amy Tinkler Worlds Qualification
5. 56.432 Ellie Downie Worlds Team Final
6. 56.332 Kelly Simm Gwangju AA
1st Malaysian woman to Test Event
Congratulations Farah Ann Abdul Hadi.
… as the best-placed Malaysian, Farah will get to compete in a Test event in Rio in April. Twenty-four gymnasts will be picked to complete the 96-woman cast at the Olympics in August next year.
The World Championships and the Test event are the only two Olympic qualifying competitions for gymnastics.
Au Li Yen was the only Malaysian woman artistic gymnast ever to compete in the Olympics. She was on the reserve list but made it to the 2000 Sydney Olympics when one of the qualifiers withdrew. …
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