Kohei’s not perfect. But he is the greatest who ever lived.
Click PLAY or watch his 5th AA World Championships win on Facebook.
Misty Copeland on 60 Minutes
Click PLAY or watch it on CBS News.
http://www.cbsnews.com/common/video/cbsnews_video.swf
One of Time Magazine‘s 100 Most Influential People of 2015.
Wayne Goldsmith on Coach Education
Though he sometimes overstates, to emphasize, I always enjoy Goldsmith’s take. If you are involved in Coach Education, click through.
• Teach coaches to listen to and understand the needs of each individual athlete
• Don’t assume all coaches want to be elite coaches
• Scrap the competency based philosophy. … Keep it simple. Assess coaches when they are coaching. …
• … don’t teach WHAT – TEACH HOW
Ten smart things we should be doing in the interest of better coach education
10 Things Only GYM Moms Understand
Tawnya:
Music is No Longer Just Music…it’s Potential Floor Music
My Living Room is Now a Practice Gym
My 10-Year-Old is Ripped
My Car is My Gymnast’s Home Away from Home
Gymnastics is Expensive, Time Consuming, and Emotional, but we wouldn’t have it Any Other Way
Click through to see the rest. 🙂
Rosie MacLennan – “love it”
courage in Gymnastics
Yep. You need be courageous to compete this sport.
Here’s a VERY dramatic dramatization of one girl overcoming a challenge on Bars.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
That was edited for the TRC Gymnastics 2013 Banquet Video to benefit CFF.
related – “We Are Gymnasts” – the TRC Gymnastics 2012 Banquet Video
(via Chalk Bucket)
playing catch on a trampoline
tumbling at La Nouba
1. Full, Double Full, Triple Full
2. Rudi through to Quad Twist
3. Full-Full Tuck to ½ Out
4. Full-Full Straight + ½
5. Miller Straight (Check the nice arms by the sides)
6. Arabian-Split-Rudi Out
7. Miller Straight + ½
8. Full-Full Straight to Triple Full
9. Miller+
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
via coach Matthew Sparks
5m Diving Springboard
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
(via Thomas G Trapp)
Varna World Cup Women’s FINALS
Vault
O Chusovitina UZB 14.650
T Belak SLO 14.250
G Steingruber SUI 14.050
Click PLAY or watch Oksana’s winning Vaults on YouTube.
Bars
Yong Mi Kang PRK 13.767
Y Dufournet FRA 13.700
G Steingruber SUI 12.867
Click PLAY or watch the Gold medal routine on YouTube. (no grips)
Beam
Thi Ha Thanh Phan VIE 14.200
Un Hyang Kim PRK 13.867
I Kaeslin SUI 13.733
Floor
I Kaeslin SUI 13.367
I Amado Medrano PAN 13.333
M Chiarella Avalos PER 13.100
Isabella Amado trains at Excalibur, Virginia Beach.
Gymternet has full results
Amanda Turner has commentary.
