Ahead of the 2015 Australian Gymnastics Championships.
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Manjak’s Toronto Summer Gymnastics Camp
Highly recommended. Details on Facebook.
profile – Maartje Ruikes
Next episode of The Hard Way To Success will feature Maartje Ruikes (NED).
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coach MAG in Yellowknife, Canada
A unique full-time opportunity in Yellowknife for someone adventurous. 🙂 International candidates welcomed.
details – Yellowknife Gymnastics Club.
I’ve been up a few times during winter. They’ve had a strong club for decades.
an unfair deduction – “chest low”
In NCAA Gymnastics in particular, I keep hearing people refer to “chest low on landing” deduction.
Yet in the current FIG Women’s Code of Points I see only this reference: Landing faults ~ Body posture fault = 0.1 or 0.3 deduction
An angled chest on landing is not necessarily a “body posture fault”, though it could be. If the impact forces are not safely and smoothly brought to zero, the gymnast can be deducted. Regardless of the angle of the chest.
For example, here’s a good landing that should not be deducted. Check the angle hip to shoulder on first contact.
How many judges are deducting that landing?
None in Men’s Gymnastics. Few in FIG WAG Gymnastics. But in College Gymnastics gymnasts are wrongly penalized, in my opinion. The good lady judges of the NCAA have so few deductions to take, they incorrectly jump on “chest low”.
Leave a comment if you have an opinion on this. Especially if you are a College judge.
Those graphics come from a study by Gittoes, Irwin and Kerwin. Kinematic Landing Strategy Transference in Backward Rotating Gymnastic Dismounts in the Journal of Applied Biomechanics.
related – deduction for “chest low” on landing
Nastia & Derek voted off
Since week #1 I’ve assumed Nastia would win DWTS 2015. It was not to be. 😦
… Olympian Nastia Liukin and five-time mirror ball champion Derek Hough were voted off “Dancing With the Stars” tonight, just one week shy of the season 20 finale. …
‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2015: Nastia Liukin and Derek Hough Cut in Season 20 Semifinals
Greg Glassman – King of CrossFit
CrossFit, Inc. is a fitness company founded by Greg Glassman and Lauren Jenai in 2000 …
… workouts incorporate elements from high-intensity interval training, Olympic weightlifting, plyometrics, powerlifting, gymnastics, girevoy sport, calisthenics, strongman, and other exercises.
It is practiced by members of over 10,000 affiliated gyms …
Turns out billionaire owner Greg Glassman, a former gymnast, is outrageously outspoken and unrepentant. Click PLAY or watch a feature on him on CBS.
http://www.cbsnews.com/common/video/cbsnews_video.swf
… websites allege that CrossFit exercise sequences are illogical, random, and lack periodization. Those same blogs allege that CrossFit lacks accreditation standards for trainers …
CrossFit needs to evolve. It needs to become more individualized. Needs to be made safer.
Nastia & Derek’s Waltz
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Yves Rossy — the Jetman
Ironman flying. But for real. 🙂
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The future of human flight is clear. … Completely autonomous. …
(via Mashable)
Ivana Hong – Beam
From the Super 6 Team Final.
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Ivana’s Bars and Beam were (probably) my favourite routines on both apparatus.
(via Balance Beam Situation)
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