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I recall the first time (decades ago) when we glued Velcro on to a pair of socks. For Pommel training.
You can now buy something much better.
I’m testing a pair now. They are great for drills on TumblTrak. Back handspring series, for example.
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related – Home-made “Sticky Toes”
Simone is surprisingly flexible for a power gymnast.
Free Hip has been added to the collection of tutorials on Gymneo English.
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Yearly membership to the Gymneo videos is 30% off right now.
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With 5 medals Ellie has become the Face of Team Canada at Pan Ams in the Canadian media.
An incredibly experienced line-up. Karen Cockburn made a comeback specifically for this competition. She wants her daughter to see her compete. 🙂
related – Rosie MacLennan – Science of Sport
Uncle Tim has been on a roll lately. All Artistic coaches (MAG and WAG) should be following his blog.
He crunched some numbers from European Games Baku with some surprising results – Do Height and Weight Matter in Women’s Gymnastics?
• height wasn’t a statistically significant predictor for E scores in Baku
• weight wasn’t a statistically significant predictor for E scores
• neither height nor weight was a statistically significant predictor for D scores
* If the data supplied by the delegations is correct, we have a wide range of heights and weights. We have someone as tall as Gabriela Janik (169 cm) and someone as short as Laura Jurca (140 cm). As for weight, we’re looking at weights from 35kg to 72kg.
He concludes with an overreaching statement: “Smaller isn’t better. Lighter isn’t better.”
That’s wrong, of course. Relative strength IS critical for success in women’s Gymnastics. Correlation is not causation, as every PhD knows. 🙂
There are many variables aside from height and weight.
You must be either strong or light. Ideally both. Being smaller and lighter make the acrobatic components easier. It’s a disadvantage for vault. A slight disadvantage on Bars.
Still, the easiest way to become Olympic Champion is to be short, light and fast twitch.
It’s possible to win the Olympics at Nastia Liukin’s height 5ft 3in (1.60m), but ask her if Gymnastics is as easy for her as it is for the shorter girls.
But our good Uncle’s main point is important. I am convinced that height and weight (within the small range of female gymnasts who compete at the highest level) is not as critical as it once was. I’m not sure why.
Canada’s top male AA gymnast tore his right Achilles tendon training Floor at a Pan Am team Camp in June.
“It felt like I stepped into a hole,” said Payne, who represents the Capital City Gymnastics Club.
“I’ve never experienced something like this, where I was totally ready to go. And I wanted to medal there (at the Pan Am Games) and help the sport get more publicity in Canada.” …
Payne resumes training for 2016 Olympics only 10 days after surgery
Both Jackson and team mate Hugh Smith missed two years of training while on missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Both came back to qualify to Canada’s A-team.
I don’t know how Cirque got permission to use so much fire in the Pan Am Opening Ceremonies.
Some of the tumblers literally were singed leaping the flames between Air Floors.
Miss Meghan posted a back stage glimpse of rehearsal.
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A review by Tony Retrosi:
Another training camp is in the books! Every year I pick a motto for camp.
This year was: ‘WE MAKE CORRECTIONS NOT EXCUSES”
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