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There was some doubt whether Flavia would end up being Brazil’s representative.

She is.

FIG posted a terrific interview from podium training:

Just 1.33 metres tall, Brazil’s Flavia Lopes Saraiva is the shortest gymnast of the Nanjing 2014 Women’s Artistic Gymnastics line-up, but she certainly did not go unnoticed at Friday’s podium training. With her remarkable form, difficult elements and beautiful presentation the tiny teenager drew attention to herself and made us want to get to know her better. …

Q: Looking at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where you could make it on the Brazilian team, what is your goal?

Flavia: I want to win a medal for Brazil. The YOG are a first step for me on the road to Rio. …

Q: Do you have a favourite apparatus?

Flavia: Yes, the beam.

Q: What is your goal at this competition?

Flavia: I want to score 57.000 points, no matter the ranking. …

read more – Brazil’s Flavia Saraiva aiming for Rio 2016

Alexandrov has them training every day. Up to 3 sessions a day. Sundays and holidays included.

I hope Brazil does not burn out before the qualifying Worlds.

According to the latest update from The All Around, here are the highest BAR scores of the year:

1. Ashton Locklear (USA) 15,600 US Classic (0.1 stick bonus)
2. Rebecca Downie (GBR) 15,500 Europeans EF
3. Yao Jinnan (CHN) 15,500 China Ch AA
4. Larrissa Miller (AUS) 15,475 AUS Ch Day 2
5. Rebecca Tunney (GBR) 15,400 British Ch EF
6. Shang Chunsong (CHN) 15,400 China Ch AA

Ashton is great, but not in the same league as Aliya or these other 5 routines if compared by the same judging panel. The Classics judges got a little too excited.

Still, Marta needs consistent and high scoring Bar routines. Ashton’s got a chance to be selected for Worlds 2014 if consistent enough.

Long term, stoop Stalder elements need to be devalued by FIG. Or the gymnasts deducted correctly 0.1 for flexed feet.

Click PLAY or watch Yao Jinnan on YouTube. D7.0 + E8.434 = 15.634 (+0.2 bonus) … or was the final score actually 15,500?

Click PLAY or watch Rebecca Downie on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Ashton on YouTube.

6.6 + 9.1 + 0.1 bonus = 15.60

Home town boy makes good.

Indy Star:

Mike Yoder, father of Alec, estimated the family has spent $100,000 on gymnastics-related expenses. It is an investment …

But when the father sees his son in the Youth Olympic Games at Nanjing, China, it will be worth every penny, Mike Yoder said.

“It is who he was created to be. It is his passion,” the father said. …

Since 2009, Yoder has learned those skills from Gene Watson, first at Indy School of Gymnastics and now at InterActive Academy.

Watson, 63, has been coaching since 1973. He has had five national champions, three members of America’s 1989 world team and 1988 Olympian Kevin Davis. Watson spends as many as eight hours a week planning Yoder’s workouts.

“Gene loves our son, and we love Gene,” Mike Yoder said. “This is not any common coach/athlete relationship. This is a unique bond.” …

read more …

For a pommel man, he circled quite low for this photo. 🙂

Another terrific edit from British Gymnastics.

I’m the One who loves to be expressive. …

Featuring: Laura Halford, Nikara Jenkins and gymnasts from Elena Rhythmic Gymnastics Club and Billings Rhythmic Gymnastics Club.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

via GymFever2012

Posted Aug 15th, 2014.

Happy discussion over at GymFever2012. Worlds would be much more entertaining with Vika competing Beam and Bars. That seems to be the plan a this point.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on YouTube.

She’s pretty much back to the level she competed at Russian Nationals Team Finals 2014. (VIDEO)

Still, the tap over the low Bar HAS to be 0.3 deduction each time. That’s about as flagrant a knee bend as I can recall. 😦

I wouldn’t credit the Jaeger as layout. Yet.

Since I last reviewed the GymDrills video sharing site, they’ve made a lot of improvements.

GymDrills now offers MAG in addition to WAG and Conditioning.

Click PLAY or watch a preview on YouTube.

With free membership, you can look at all the content anytime before deciding whether or not to buy a monthly subscription.

Members can add as many of their own drills as they wish.

I love it.

gymdrills.net

You can watch a teaser video right now. It’s an 8 minute excerpt from a 1 hour+ presentation on how to teach backward giant.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Launch date of their ENGLISH language site is October 25, 2014.

From September 5 through September 25 preorder a subscription and save up to 50% off the regular price.

details – en.gymneo.tv

Too young for the Rio Olympics, Deanne plans to train towards international competition and possibly even Olympics 2020.

She’s awesome.

Click PLAY or watch some of her training from 2013 on YouTube. (age-11)

Deanne Soza is coached by Dan and Jana Coleman at Arete Gymnastics in Utah.

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One skill set many coaches lack is the ability to communicate well with parents.

If you don’t educate them on the very complex sport of Artistic Gymnastics, don’t be surprised if they arrive at some of these wrong conclusions.

JAG GYM:

With tuition that can approximate a car payment each month, missed family dinners and weekends lost to travelling to remote locations to sit inside a gym or hotel convention center eating over priced hot dogs and too many brownies, no one can doubt that gymnastics parents are among the most dedicated sports parents. …

BUT …

Here are a dozen dangerous ideas that can plague even the best-intentioned gym parents:

1. If my child fails to make consistent progress it is her coach’s fault and we should change gyms.

2. For all the money I am paying, there better be results

3. The more time in the gym, the better.

see the rest – A DANGEROUS DOZEN: MISGUIDED IDEAS OF WELL-MEANING GYM PARENTS