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BMX in 2015
Cirque du Soleil’s Stacy Clark linked to a highlights reel from an event in France. Mostly twisting: riders, their bikes … or both.
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worst WAG corner move ever
Australian Championships
Sr AA
1 Georgia Godwin Queensland
2 Emily Little Western Australia
3 Madelaine Leydin Victoria
Sr VAULT
1 Emily Little Western Australia 14.937
2 Stephanie Magiros New South Wales 13.937
3 Madelaine Leydin Victoria 12.363
Sr BARS
1 Rianna Mizzen Queensland 14.075
2 Madelaine Leydin Victoria 13.900
3 Georgia Godwin Queensland 13.750
Jr AA
1 Emily Whitehead Victoria
2 Talia Folino Victoria
3 Charleis Kingston-White Victoria
Jr BEAM
1 Talia Folino Victoria
2 Emily Whitehead Victoria
3 Charleis Kingston-White Victoria
Jr FLOOR
1 Emily Whitehead Victoria
2 Talia Folino Victoria
3 Charleis Kingston-White Victoria
Gymternet – 2015 Australian Championships Results
Wayne Goldsmith on over-coaching
Another thought provoking article by the leader in though provoking coaching articles. 🙂
Who OVER coaches?
Typically five types of coaches OVER coach:
1. Young, inexperienced coaches who are trying too hard
2. Coaches who lack real belief in themselves and who try to make up for it by giving too much information. …
3. Coaches who lack belief in their athletes and feel the need to control every element of preparation and performance
4. Coaches who are being evaluated or assessed and aim to impress …
5. EGO driven coaches …
Problems with Over-coaching:
1. All sports require athletes / players to take responsibility for decision making and problem solving in competition.
…6. Coaching is about creating independent athletes / players.
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9. Over coaching can create anxiety and pressureread more … Improve your Coaching by NOT Coaching
Julia Sharpe is amazing
Dips and Handstand @ 35 Wks Pregnant with Twins
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Dvora Meyers linked to that. And posted a profile feature on NY Magazine’s The Cut:
You started out in women’s gymnastics and then made the switch to men’s club at MIT. When and why did you make the switch from the balance beam to the rings?
I made the switch to men’s gymnastics after NAIGC Nationals in the spring of 2012. There were several reasons that I decided to switch. The MIT team only sent two male gymnasts to Nationals that year, and it seemed like the team was disappearing (like so many men’s programs these days), so I wanted to help keep it going.
I was also craving a new challenge. Women’s gymnastics at the NAIGC club level uses Level 9 rules [which are less demanding than varsity-level gymnastics rules], so my routines were very watered-down so that I could be super-clean and score well … In men’s gymnastics, I was able to go back to the basics and learn so many new things just from the other people on the team. In women’s gymnastics, I could maybe learn one new skill per year, but in men’s I was learning new skills all the time. …
Springfield College administration once disallowed her to compete. Because of gender. 😦 They are lucky she didn’t sue.
Bar drills
Love the “half way ups”. (second drill)
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covergirl Laurie Hernandez
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1770 rope climbs for Nepal
Louis Smith and friends will climb the height of Everest, 8848 metres, in rope climbs as a fundraiser for Rotary Club of Huntingdon. They hope to raise at least £1,000 towards earthquake relief.
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we need MORE GYMNASTS at the Olympics
Around 10,700 athletes competed at the London Olympics. (5,992 men, 4,776 women)
There were 26 sports.
That’s an average of about 411 / sport.
Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline Gymnastics are allocated 312 spots by IOC. (98 MAG, 98 WAG, 84 Rhythmic and 32 spots for Trampoline)
One thing EVERYONE agrees on is that Gymnastics gets too few spots considering FIG’s IOC status.
Only Athletics is ranked higher. Gymnastics and Swimming are second ahead of Basketball, Cycling, Soccer, Tennis and Volleyball.
Inside the Games – Swimming and gymnastics vault ahead as rate of increase slows in IOC revenue distributions to summer sports
Gymnastics TV ratings are amongst the highest at the Summer Olympics. We have some GREAT stories.
FIG must continue to petition IOC to add athletes. If it was up to me, I’d move some of the Summer Games sports to the Winter Olympics to make more space. In fact, I wouldn’t mind Gymnastics being moved to the Winter Olympics in exchange for adding another hundred athletes.
related – FIG – Q and A on the new Olympic qualification system in Gymnastics
