insane Cheer tumbling

There are a number of male Cheer tumblers this good. But I’m not sure I’ve seen a female chuck this much difficulty connected.

Yeesh.

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great Tkachev spot

Coach Mauro di Rienzo got a big round of applause in the Junior Finals at Gymnix. Sara Berardinelli will never forget this routine.

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I’d noted earlier that the Italian and Swiss Bar spotters were very careful while spotting these young girls competing BIG skills. I appreciated their caution. And it paid off for Sara in this case.

After the first catch, I switched my camera over to Bars. Here’s a different angle.

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Visual Data in Collegiate Gymnastics

Posted February 17, 2015 by Michigan Men’s Gymnastics Team member Hub Humphrey:

Visual Data has transformed the way collegiate gymnastics is analyzed. Pie graphs, line charts, and bar graphs give gymnasts and coaches the ability to analyze trends of each team and individual gymnast by competition.

Road to Nationals is the best and only website that I know of that takes all the results and statistics of each competition and displays it in a visual form. …

The Value of Visual Data in Collegiate Gymnastics

road to Nationals

There’s a permanent link to Road to Nationals in the right hand navigation.

via @StickitMedia

Gymnastics Life Lessons

Anne Josephson:

Here are 25 lessons that gymnastics (and other sports) brings to us:

1. How to deal with fear
2. How to deal with failure
3. How to get along with others
4. How to manage time
5. How to take criticism
…

25 LIFE LESSONS GYMNASTICS TEACHES (WITHOUT EVEN TRYING)

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Cal Gymnastics 1975

… at Tom Weeden’s family’s cabin at Donner Lake.

In the photo (in addition to Tom and Mike) are Dr. Harold Frey, Mr. Watanabe, Dave Eby, Mark Adams, Mark Lundy, Ben J Corr, Clark Johnson, Steve Matsuo, Jay Lowy, Fred Perkune, Warren Long, John Cameron, Gary Ino, James Ely, Rod Hom, Tom Beach, Mike Dubos, Ronald Joseph Bell, Steve Omi, and probably a half-dozen others …

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coaching course Saudi Arabia

Zambri Zainal Abidin, FIG Brevet Coach from Malaysia, has been a clinician at AGU camps in Damascus(2008), Bangkok (2009), India (2010) and for an IOC Solidarity Coaches Camp in Sanaa, Yemen (2010).

cartwheel

He was invited by the Saudi Arabia Federation to teach a 4 day course Feb 17-20, 2015. 12 Saudi Arabian Coaches attended, some physical education teachers.

Topic covered included:

1. Method of teaching.

2. Understanding the 6 dominant mechanical movement principles.

3. Basic biomechanics.

4. Preventing growth plate damage.

5. Planning and periodization.

6. Physical and technical preparation of skills in the FIG age group development Class 1 compulsories MAG.

coaches

Rings

They are doing good Gymnastics in the Kingdom, looking to integrate the activity more into Physical Education curriculum.

The only FIG member nations I know that do not offer gymnastics for girls and women are Saudi Arabia and Yemen. In future, we should train ladies as coaches for girls schools and Universities. The largest women’s University in the world is in Riyadh. That institution should offer sports training including Gymnastics.