Ontario Coaching Congress

August 21st-22nd, Milton, ONT

DAVE ROSS, FRANK SAHLEIN, DENIS VACHON, NICOLE LANGEVIN, ZHAOHUI HUANG, NICK BLANTON, ALEX BARD and many, many more great presenters.

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Yurchenko drills

SMVRT-2TChris Zimmerman put together a video for Mancino. It features the new Shannon Miller Round-Off Trainer mat.

Todd Gardiner likes the narrow Yurchenko hand mat to encourage kids to do a normal round-off, not the overturned round-off you see so many Olympians use. I agree. We should delay any overturn of the round-off for as long as possible.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

BAN pay-for-play Trampoline facilities

Trampoline and Gymnastics professionals recommend parents get an experienced, certified coach.

Sending kids in to a barely supervised free-for-all Trampoline facility is dangerous and irresponsible. 😦

Christopher McKenna broke his neck at a Trampoline centre
Christopher McKenna broke his neck at a Trampoline centre

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Al Fong’s FREE Gymnastics Workshop

November 6-7th, 2015, Kansas City, Missouri

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I visited the Great American Gymnastics Express in Missouri, on behalf of TumblTrak in 2012. One of the best clinics I’ve yet attended.

Al Fong

Krisztian Berki training

Olympic Champion Krisztian, age-30, missed European Championships. But he’s looking good in the lead up to Glasgow.

Click PLAY or watch a recent training session on YouTube.

I’m hoping he finishes top 3 at Worlds 2015 so he’ll have a chance to defend in Rio.

(via gymnastikfabriken)

USA World Championships selection

Marta and her committee will name the team as late as possible.

It may come down to who is strong enough, tough enough to maintain a very high level of routine readiness through both Camps. Who can stay healthy.

Alyssa Baumann, Plano, Texas/WOGA
Simone Biles, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre
Nia Dennis, Westerville, Ohio/Legacy Elite
Madison Desch, Lenexa, Kan./Great American Gymnastics Express
Gabrielle Douglas, Virginia Beach, Va./Buckeye Gymnastics
Brenna Dowell, Odessa, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express
Rachel Gowey, Urbandale, Iowa/Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute
Amelia Hundley, Hamilton, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics
Bailie Key, Montgomery, Texas/Texas Dreams
Madison Kocian, Dallas/WOGA
Ashton Locklear, Hamlet, N.C./Everest Gymnastics, senior
Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minn./Twin City Twisters
Aly Raisman, Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics
Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max
MyKayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz./Desert Lights Gymnastics

The World Championships training squad will attend the training camp Sept. 12-16 and the World Selection Camp, Oct. 6-9, at the USA Gymnastics National Team Training Center at the Karolyi Ranch, a U.S. Olympic Training Site, in Huntsville, Texas.

USAG – USA Gymnastics announces 2015 World Championships training squad

Glasgow