Gymnastics Coaching.com

CBS National News–in town doing a story on the Utah gymnastics team and its amazing home meet atmosphere–couldn’t have scripted a better show than what happened tonight in the Huntsman Center. An NCAA gymnastics record crowd of 16,019 was on its feet for much of the night …

As big as the crowd was, the volume was even bigger, especially for routines by the magnificent senior class of Georgia Dabritz, Corrie Lothrop, Becky Tutka and Tory Wilson. …

Both Utah and Michigan put on a show, combining to hit 48-of-48 routines and 26 scores of 9.90 or better. …

“To go 49.50 on the balance beam–that is big for us,” said Marsden. “That puts beam on par with the other three events.” …

Utah Utes

Utes’ talented senior class not finished yet

#ATTAC2015 Dallas.

Bela says YOU CAN DO. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch a promo on Facebook.

USAG will be streaming and archiving every routine on YouTube. Much of that is geo-blocked, only available for those in the USA, but the routines will eventually make their way to YouTube.

Quick Facts

#ATTAC2015

See it on twitter.

🙂 See the photo on Facebook.

Wow.

See it on twitter.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

#gymnix2015 @IntlGymnix

1. Victoria Kayen Woo – Gym-Richelieu 54.625
2. Isabela Onyshko – Brandon 54.325
3. Sydney Soloski – Calgary Gymnastics Centre 53.100
4. Madison Copiak – Calgary Gymnastics Centre 53.050
5. Audrey Rousseau – Equilibrix 52.825
6. Hélody Cyrenne – Gym-Richelieu 52.025
full results

Different gymnasts had different goals for this meet. Isabela is competing very high start scores, working to stabilize those routines.

Calgary Gymnastics Centre, by comparison, competed less difficulty cleaner, and with much greater consistency. They look great.

… “Nastia Liukin has always been a role model to me,” said Campbell, a Level 10 gymnast from Carrollton, Texas. “I’ve always wanted to be like her. She was so graceful on floor and on bars, swinging so fluently. I’d like to go elite and, one day, maybe try for the Olympics, too.”

Campbell is among three dozen of the country’s top Junior Olympic female gymnasts who qualified Nastia Liukin Cup, set to get underway at 8 p.m. ET at AT&T Stadium.

As an added bonus, the gymnasts were invited to spend some time with Liukin, 25, hours before the competition at a nearby hotel. After breakfast, they participated in a question-and-answer session (no coaches allowed) and were offered fun activities to prep for the meet, such as having their nails painted and decorated with Swarovski crystals. …

USAG

In the complicated Canadian competitive structure, National Novice girls are age 11-13.

AA results
1. Leah Tindale (Dynamo)
2. Zoe Allaire-Bourgie (Gymnix)
3. Xuân Patenaude (Gymnix)
4. Audrey Foucault (Gym Fly)
5. Sophie Shaver (Unigym)
6. Charlotte Innes (CGC)
full results

Leah Tindale won the AA despite falls on Bars and Beam. Her Floor included the most difficult tumbling in the competition: Double Arabian, 1 1/2 to 2 1/2, Double Pike.

• the Gymnix meet 2015 was of mixed “developmental age” and ability

• still, it’s a strong talent pool

• Beam was the apparatus that impressed me most. Some very sharp work.

• the girls are so small and light that not many have (yet) much power for tumbling and Vault

• Vault was weakest, I’d say. Gymnastics Canada forces even the smallest, lightest girls to choose from the two Spring Boards used by Olympians. Dumb. Obviously there’s plenty of time to change Springs. Volunteers could police the apparatus to ensure no springs mysteriously disappear.

• the Mexican gymnasts had some excellent routines

• one of many who caught my eye was Sarah Stewart (Zenith Elite, USA) on Bars. Though her warm-ups were better than the competition routine, she finishes Giant turns SQUARE and SOLID. Many of these young gymnasts swing down crooked.

• landings are weak in general. Females (for some reason) do not spend enough time on technique, strength training and spatial awareness for landings. Boys do.

• many of the young girls used the same giant technique for dismount as for giants. That usually results in a high, slow rotating double somersault. Psychologically it’s better to use a different giant for dismount to avoid confusion.

• on the bright side, most of the girls are short enough to swing past the low bar with stretched body. They’ve not “learned” to flex the ankles past the rail, as yet. 🙂

Open Joint Azerbaijan Championships in Baku.

1. Stepko, Oleg (AZE) 90.600
2. Pakhnyuk, Petro (AZE) 88.050
3. Ude, Filip (CRO) 86.100

WAG
1. Pravdina, Kristina (AZE) 50.399
2. Yilmaz, Tutya (TUR) 50.331
3. Mutlu, Demet (TUR) 49.332

TAA – All around gold for Stepko, Pravdina in Baku