8 weeks prior to Worlds. Nile Wilson does a terrific job with this edit.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (10min)
(via gymnastikfabriken)
Magyar/Silvado conditiong
Baz Collie. Physical preparation for Pommels at the 2015 EUG training camp in Tirrenia, Italy. 25 gymnasts from 12 nations. 26 coaches from 13 nations.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Drill at the 16min mark.
Keep watching for swing handstand conditioning from 1 pommel. And more.
Valeri Liukin – Flyaway 1/1
Why we miss Olympic compulsories.
Easier skills done with maximum amplitude. One example from Compulsory Horizontal Bar.
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Casey485 likes Kim Zmeskal competing the same skill.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Alex Seifert – circus tumbling
Alex Seifert has been a star with Cirque’s La Nouba in Florida for many years now. One of the tallest, most elegant tumblers.
Click PLAY or watch some stage training on YouTube.
Follow him on instagram – asseif.
Kyle Thalman – Spotting
Kyle posted his DVD on YouTube so more coaches will get to see it. Thanks!
Basic Concept of Spotting – 1:02
Safety Tips – 4:08
Running Tumbling Spotter Progression Skills – 18:261 – Handstand chapter – 5:57
2 – Forward Roll Chapter – 7:23
3 – Backward Roll Chapter – 8:46
4 – Front Walkover – 10:12
5 – Back Walkover – 11:37
6 – Cartwheel – 12:47
7 – Standing Back Handspring – 14:08
8 – Standing Back Tuck – 16:269 – Running Aerial – 19:35
10 – Running Front Tuck – 21:27
11 – Round-off Back Handspring – 23:27
12 – Round-off Back Handspring Back Tuck – 25:55
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (30min)
Nellie Kim article
I once saw – in person – Nellie compete a World Cup. In many ways she was even more impressive than Nadia, her great rival.
Who will succeed her as WTC Chair?
Kim, 58, was happy to reminisce about her own time in the sport. “As a gymnast it is a fantastic feeling to be able to do something that people consider impossible,” she says. “Now I think: ‘My gosh, I was able to perform those double saltos and all those rotations in the air’.” …
Kim – who has been involved in some capacity with every Olympics since 1976 – admits she never ceases to be astounded by the evolution of the sport with ever more creative and gravity-defying moves being introduced. …
Grandi claimed the gymnastics he saw at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning were “too much of its acrobatic part and not too much artistry” adding: “Gymnastics is artistic gymnastics, the definition I don’t want to lose.”
It is a subject Kim feels strongly about, but equally is keen to tread carefully on. “The artistry is a very difficult topic to discuss because it is very subjective,” she says. “As a technical committee we are trying to bring everyone as close as possible to our guidelines and give them examples to follow and understand how we think the artistry should be presented.” …
via GymCastic
Wang Yan to Worlds
It’s a safe bet to assume Team China needs this Floor / Vault specialist, who’s also quite good on Beam.
She was very successful at the 2015 Asian Championships.
Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Vault 1 on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Vault 2 on YouTube.
Wang competed at the Chinese Nationals in June, qualifying first into the all-around and vault finals, in addition to the balance beam and floor finals. … She earned silver in the all-around final behind Shang Chunsong. …
related – Gymternet – Japan and China’s Big Success at Asian Championships
Aly – Going for Gold audiocast
Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman discusses her pursuit of another gold medal in the 2016 Games in Rio with USA TODAY Sports reporter Nancy Armour.
Great West Gym Fest 2016 – Idaho
Meet Director Dave Adlard gave me the heads up that my favourite invitational competition in the world is already 73% full. Get your entries in quick if you plan to attend.
Coeur d’Alene Feb 19 – 21, 2016.
former gymnast ‘most influential’ in British sport
#1. Barbara Slater – BBC Director of Sport
Slater is responsible for 20,000 hours of global sports coverage across radio, TV and online each year. She orchestrated the BBC’s entire coverage of London 2012 – and has been instrumental in getting women’s sport more attention …
She carried the British flag at the opening ceremony of the 1976 Olympics.
Former gymnast Gabby Logan, Sports presenter, is #16.
Claudia Fragapane #29.
I’m surprised Beth Tweddle isn’t on the list.
(via Elizabeth Booth)
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