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Rewriting Russian Gymnastics posted a cute translation. 🙂
… my goal is to become an Olympic champion! And overtake my Dad’s achievements in sport. … There is still a lot to do, but if I succeed at the Olympics, then I will immediately overtake him. …
Click PLAY or watch her Euro Games Apparatus Finals vaults on YouTube.
This is Kenzo serious twisting. Respect.
Click PLAY or watch it on instagram.
https://instagram.com/p/4QD4W4nfVo/
Jordan trains at Naydenov Gymnastics.
via Nico on GymFever2012
Most girls in the USAG follow the Junior Olympic competitive program. The few who want to try to qualify for the Junior or Senior Team one day should follow the Elite path.
It’s difficult (but not impossible) to jump from J.O. to Elite.
But what is the Elite path?
Tammy Biggs and National Team Staff want to help coaches understand what it takes to be Elite in the USA. One series of Camps is called “Make It Right”.
Click PLAY or watch a promo on YouTube.
Coming up …
July 31 – Aug 2 Boston (sold out)
Oct 9-11 – Las Vegas
Dec 18-20 – Las Vegas
Click through to the home page for details – makeitrightgymnastics.com
Coaches who bring a gymnast come for free. Coaches who do not bring a gymnast are charged $350.
Foreign coaches are welcome, I believe.
LIKE Make It Right Gymnastics Education on Facebook
Follow Tammy Biggs’ YouTube channel.
If you have a hotshot age-13 or younger, you could send a video to TDBiggs (a) AOL.com for an assessment:
– 5 casts to handstand
– 10 x press to handstand
– Elite compulsory routines (with spot if necessary)
– 3 best optional skills on Bars
– best skills on Beam
– best skills on Floor
– 1 optional Vault (preferably Yurchenko)
Best are D-parts or higher even if assistance is needed. (spotting, pits, trampoline, etc.)
Breaking. Alan Owen is trying to launch a charity where people can sponsor gymnasts in developing nations for about $35 a month.
Nations include Peru, Nicaragua, Chile and Honduras.
I’m hoping it will include Islamic nations, as well.
Opportunities for girls to do gymnastics in Muslim nations are limited. Surprisingly, there are at least two sports centers in Kabul, Afghanistan offering the sport and activity for girls.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
That program is sponsored by the Alzahra Cultural and Sport Association. They could use help.
related – Malaysian gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Had was a star at the SEA Games. Predictably some Muslims criticized her for wearing a leotard.
Personally, I feel female gymnasts should be allowed to wear bike shorts over their leotards, if they prefer. Does FIG already allow leotards with built-in shorts?
Aliya Mustafina’s quadruple turn was downgraded to triple in the European Games Final.
Would you have given it?
That was linked by wogymnastika.
MAG
Kohei Uchimura
Yusuke Tanaka
Ryohei Kato
Kazuma Kaya
Tomomasa Hasegawa
Kenzo Shirai
WAG
Aiko Sugihara
Natsumi Sasada
Asuka Teramoto
Sakura Yumoto
Yuki Uchiyama
Sae Miyakawa
(via gymfanjapan and Nico on GymFever2012)
Gold at European Games. Layout gainer dismount is a D-part.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
related – Bea Gheorghisor – Euro Games: The Event Finals
For the first time in the same competition, our six disciplines, four Olympic (MAG, WAG, RG, TRA) and two non-Olympic disciplines (AER, ACRO) are gathered.
All finales will take place according to the principle of an alternation between two disciplines. Men’s artistic gymnastics with women’s artistic gymnastics, rhythmic (Olympic) with acrobatic (non-Olympic), trampoline (Olympic) with Aerobic (non-Olympic). …
… artistic, with an all-around final with 18 gymnasts instead of 24 and the apparatus finals with 6 instead of 8 gymnasts. …
The main booster of the European Games format is Georges Guelzec, President of the European Union of Gymnastics. He’s running to succeed Bruno Grandi as the next FIG President.
related – Arabian Punch Front – Stars of the First European Games
Great drill by a great gymnast. Jake was demonstrating for coach Dave Juszczyk.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Don’t expect your beginners to swing like Jake. Older, taller gymnasts with long limbs have a biomechanical advantage. It’s easier to snap a longer whip than a shorter one.
Be patient with your shortest, youngest kids. Swing technique takes time.
