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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.
VAULT
Giulia Steingruber (SUI) (15.566, 14.433) 14.999
Seda Tutkhalyan (RUS) (14.833, 14.533) 14.683
Lisa Top (NED) (14.133, 13.900) 14.016
BARS
Aliya Mustafina (RUS) 15.400
Sophie Scheder (GER) 15.200
Andreea Iridon (ROU) 12.800
The medalists are the first 3 competitors on this video. Iridon collected a Bronze with a fall. 😦
BEAM
Lieke Wevers (NED) 14.200
Andreea Iridon (ROU) 14.000
Giulia Steingruber (SUI) 13.700
FLOOR
Giulia Steingruber (SUI) 14.266
Aliya Mustafina (RUS) 14.200
Lieke Wevers (NED) 13.800
Some controversy on who deserved the Gold on Floor Exercise.
FLOOR
Rayderley Miguel Zapata Santana (ESP) 15.333
Fabian Hambuechen (GER) 15.100
David Belyavskiy (RUS) 15.000
POMMEL
Saso Bertoncelj (SLO) 14.966
Oleg Stepko (AZE) 14.600
Brinn Bevan (GBR) 14.200
RINGS
Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 15.633
Nikita Ignatyev (RUS) 15.333
Ibrahim Colak (TUR) 15.133
VAULT
Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) (15.400, 15.133) 15.266
Casimir Schmidt (NED) (15.033, 15.200) 15.116
Oleg Stepko (AZE) (14.933, 15.000) 14.966
PARALLEL BARS
Oleg Stepko (AZE) 15.733
David Belyavskiy (RUS) 15.700
Marius Daniel Berbecar (ROU) 15.600
(Verniaiev 14.633)
HORIZONTAL BAR
Fabian Hambuechen (GER) 15.533
Vlasios Maras (GRE) 15.366
Nikita Ignatyev (RUS) 15.166
results via GYMMIN’ MIEL!
official – 1st European Games: competition report artistic gymnastics event finals:
9 countries divided the 10 event final titles with Azerbaijan clinching its first gold for host nation in gymnastics!
Click PLAY or watch Oleg Stepko’s P Bars on YouTube.
Oleg will be a national hero with that Gold medal. World Champion Verniaiev took an extra swing.
I dropped in to see coach Leonard Isaacs at his new club in Lake Barrington outside Chicago.
Owner Gary Griffin brought Leonard in to KIAGA – a gorgeous, clean 23,000 square foot facility only 3 years old.
Leonard Isaacs and Bill Sands were the first Elite American coaches I ever followed. They coached together in Chicago a … few years ago. 🙂
Both are still two of the gurus that influence me most as a coach.
Leonard is an advisor and consultant to Tumbl Trak, coming up with new innovations to make Gymnastics training safer. This time he showed me a series of non-spotting progressions for teaching high to low “Bail” handstand on Bars. That video will be released soon.
Here’s a background article on Kids in Action – KIAGA’s Coach Gary.
related – Leonard Isaacs – saving handstand
Don’t try this over home. 🙂
.. I just jumped over my house with the help of a few friends and a Russian swing. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Storm Freerunning)
The Philippines has finally ended a 10-year gold medal drought in gymnastics at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP) president Cynthia Carrion said yesterday the breakthrough came through the efforts of a homegrown athlete who did the country proud in Singapore.
Reyland Capellan, 21, captured the gold medal in the floor event and added a bronze in the vault at the recently concluded SEA Games. Fil-Am Ava Verdeflor, 19, delivered a silver in the uneven bars and led the women’s team to a bronze. The harvest was a far cry from the single gymnastics bronze that the Philippines took at the 2011 SEA Games in Indonesia, courtesy of John Nathan Monteclaro in the rings. Before Capellan’s feat, the Philippines’ last gold medal in gymnastics came from Roel Ramirez in the vault in 2005. …
(via Cordelia Price)
Scott Chandler will take to the gymnastics mats just one more time, a day after his 40th birthday and three decades after first appearing in competition.
He’s even organized his own event so he can say he competed into his forties.
“I’m the only guy out there that’s losing his hair I can tell you that,” Chandler said with a laugh, “and the only guy out there that doesn’t have an eight-pack under his tights.” …
It’s also the 40th birthday of someone named Oksana.
Unlike Scott, she’s no quitter. 🙂
(via Grace Chiu)
The most talked about male Canadian gymnast this past season was too young to be allowed to compete at the Canadian Championships.
He was barely old enough for the Canada Winter Games finishing 2nd AA against most of the best of the rest in the country.
Click PLAY or watch a highlights reel on YouTube.
Félix was one of our demonstrators at the coaching course following Nationals. Turns out he’s a normal kid. Fun loving. Of his many talents I was most impressed by aerial awareness. For example, for fun he did on Rings: Backward uprise to support, Koste (back salto) from support with triple twist.
