point-of-view H Bar

With the great former Stanford gymnast Rico Andrade. A new perspective.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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
Ashleigh Gnat, LSU

Piked front 1/2s
Hunter Price, Oklahoma
Alexis Mattern, Ohio State
Bailey Abernathy, Minnesota

Tsuk fulls or Kasamatsu fulls (1/2s?)
Nina McGee, Denver
Emily Richardson, Cal
Mary Jacobsen, Oregon State

Who’s throwing the harder vaults? And other standout skills

Click through to see the rest.

Balance Beam Situation – new NCAA rules

Well, well well. Look at yourselves. No 197s. No accidental 10s given for Yurchenko fulls. …

Week 1 Ranking and Notes

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 …

Heart this on Instagram.

Starting this week like… . . ?:@robdalyphoto

A photo posted by Dom Palange (@gymdom) on Jan 11, 2016 at 4:13pm PST

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“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.