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Simone turned professional recently, signing with Octagon. She’ll be everywhere in the lead up to Rio. 🙂

Includes some short training clips you’ve not yet seen.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NjgzODAzMzYy?related=1&autoplay=false

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Becca Pang:

We are thrilled to announce that next week we are rebranding from Gymnastike to FloGymnastics and launching a redesigned website: FloGymnastics.com. …

FloGymnastics (the name) will take some time to get used to.

@In2thewildes reads it ‘flog ‘em nastics‘ 🙂

However Becca told me that the new web platform really will be a big upgrade. I’m definitely going to check it out. And I’ve started to link to a few of their original posts after boycotting Gymnastike in 2014.

Kyle’s gym just posted one of the best preschool Gymnastics promotional videos I’ve yet seen.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Rec Gymnastics)

Here’s another mad man.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks Alex.

Repost – Bar clinic yesterday. We talked, as always, about tangent of release:

… the body’s mass center exits from any external swing at a 90° angle to its radius of rotation (tangent to the swing) …

Just as the archer’s bow establishes the flight direction of the arrow, so too does the tangent release establish the flight direction of the gymnast. …

… read more

Information excerpted from Championship Gymnastics: Biomechanical Techniques for Shaping Winners, by Gerald S. George, Ph.D.

That graphic would generate a discussion regarding whether or not she might “pull-in” to the bar by shortening the body before release. … She might.

I’ll use this layout flyaway graphic, instead, to introduce the concept of “tanget” to the point of release of swing.

Of course the path of flight is a “parabola” after release. (Unless the gymnast goes straight up, straight down.)

The problem with biomechanics is the risk of generating more heat than light.

My favourite routines at Glasgow Worlds. These “butterfly” pull-ups are impossible. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Liu Yang’s routine on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch You Hao’s routine on YouTube.

related – Chinese gymnastics sees positive signs as Olympics loom

Thanks Ono.

Charlie was the Bronze medalist on Vault at the 2001 World Championships.

Click PLAY or watch World Cup Cottbus 2002 on YouTube.

New Cuban sensation Manrique Larduet reminds many of the great Charlie Tamayo. Incredible power. Plenty of crowd appeal.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

https://instagram.com/p/9gj7tsvHEh/
 
(via Lauren)

Gymneo posted another free preview on Facebook.

I renewed my membership to Gymneo English for another year. Around 21 hours of excellent WAG coaching tutorials. The French version has more content (36hrs), however.