For a power gymnast, Vanessa is very flexible. She looked in particularly good fitness at Worlds 2014.
THERE’S NO NEED TO YELL WHEN YOU’RE THE ONE WITH THE GUN
Jag Gym:
Think about it: The man is a police officer. He has the power of the law behind him, not to mention a fully loaded gun at his hip. Did he really need to shout to be heard when I was sitting in my car, pulled over, ready to cooperate?
Yet, how often are we guilty of being harsh with our students, athletes, subordinates or children?
I know I am guilty of it.
Too often I will continue to hammer long after the point has been made, despite the fact that the person in front of me is clearly remorseful. Too frequently I will forget that my words and actions can shake someone to the core …
THERE’S NO NEED TO YELL WHEN YOU’RE THE ONE WITH THE GUN
Coaches need to stay calm. Be dispassionate. Learn to overcome anger.
Olympic Bars Champions
1972 – 2008
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Munich 1972 – Karin Janz
Montreal 1976 – Nadia Comaneci
Moscow 1980 – Maxi Gnauck
Los Angeles 1984 – Julianne McNamara / Ma Yanhong
Seoul 1988 – Daniela Silivas
Barcelona 1992 – Lu Li
Atlanta 1996 / Sydney 2000 – Svetlana Khorkina
Athens 2004 – Émilie Le Pennec
Beijing 2008 – He Kexin
Taekwondo Tricking performance
chin-up challenges for little ones
World’s Toughest Sport – Gymnastics
Michael S. Yessis:
… we ranked 40 sports …
The categories are:
FITNESS (f).
SKILLS (s).
BRAINS (b).
PAIN (p).
CONTACT (c).
VENUE (v).
INTANGIBLES (i).1. GYMNASTICS (567.6 OUT OF 1,095.4)
2. IRONMAN TRIATHLON (566.6)
3. ROCK CLIMBING (558.8)
4. ICE HOCKEY (524.9)
5. BULL RIDING (523.4) …
Post by USA Gymnastics.
Post by USA Gymnastics.
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special needs gymnastics
Tumbl Trak has spent a lot of energy researching best equipment for special needs kids. Soft, safe, rounded edges.
This is one heartwarming edit. 🙂
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Jossimar Calvo – H Bar
This guy is super talented.
From the AA competition. One of the most exciting routines at Worlds. As good a Liukin as any.
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Terrible Rybalkos, however. Let’s pray those skills gets devalued in the next Code.
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young Russian – H Bar
judging artistry – neither reliable nor valid
Research study out of University of Ljubljana, Slovenia:
Due to its nature and relatively poor definitions in the Code of points, judging of artistry may suffer from serious flaws in reliability and validity.
We have used the balance beam artistry evaluation forms given by 5 execution judges at World Championship in Tokyo 2011 to analyze reliability and validity.
Data on 194 competitors was gathered. Deductions were received by a highly variable number of competitors from separate judges in the same components of artistry.
The variability of average total artistry deduction was relatively large, ranging from 0.18 to 0.39 points.
The average correlation coefficient in total artistry deductions between all judge pairs was 0.6±0.06 and average correlation coefficient in total deductions from execution score was 0.73±0.04, p < 0.001.
Kendall’s coefficient W revealed significant systematic over- or under-rating of judges in the components of artistry of presentation, sureness of performance and variation in rhythm, but also in total artistry deductions (W values ranged from 0.05 to 0.53, p < 0.001 for all W coefficients).
We conclude that neither reliability nor validity of artistry judging was satisfactory in this analysis. Further thorough evaluations of judging performance in artistry are needed to guide accommodations and hopefully improvements in this field. …
Authors are grateful to Nelli Kim, FIG Women’s Technical Committee President who supported this study during and after the World Championship in Tokyo 2011.
Open the study as a PDF.
That was using the rules of the last quadrennial. Still, it’s my belief that different people cannot judge artistry consistently.
Instead, FIG judges should simply apply the Code as written now, deducting for errors in form, body position and rhythm. The most artistic will be rewarded. Consistently.
