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I’ve added a quick link atop the home page to the new Road to Nationals results tracking site.
The Men’s season kicks off January 11th.
related – Key Players in the NCAA
kids and sport
… moms helping their young athletes go to practices, absorb disappointments and, of course, get back up again to compete. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
over-protected gymnasts?
Many times I’ve feared for gymnasts heading off to College, knowing too little about the birds and the bees.
College coaches can tell you stories of how naive some of the kids are on reporting to school.
Gymnasts are not getting the information from their doctors:
In annual physicals teens and docs failed to talk sex a third of the time and usually too briefly when the subject was addressed.
Coaches should stay away from this topic with their athletes as much as possible. It’s the parent’s responsibility.
Men’s Code of Points
Blanton’s Gymnastics Consultancy:
The current Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, Code Of Points breakdown of difficulty. The picture indicates number of A through G’s on each respective event.
Not included are the various difficulties that can be accrued on Pommel Horse through the addition of Flop sequences and also upgrades to handstand dismounts i.e. 360 Pirouette and/or 3/3 travel
Aaron Cook – standing double
Making it look EASY. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on Vine.
https://vine.co/v/hJ9qBUPTKt0/embed/simple//platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js
Aaron Cook is a Power Tumbler out of AGT Flipcity.
(via Carrie Spender Lennox)
Kyla Ross – Beam Arabian
Aliya Mustafina – Beam
drill for body alignment
From Rebecca Sykes.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Big Swing will like this one. 🙂
via Tony Retrosi
“skew” on Magyar / Sivado
Sargis Siradegyan sKT posted this interesting variation in flare.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The hands should be parallel on each step or take a deduction for skew.
I asked Canadian Head Coach Tony Smith his opinion on skew deduction in 2013. He feels most gymnast are getting deducted. But that those with a very high start score get deducted less than the rest.
Mitigation.
If possible, use other (less deductible) D elements instead.
COOL new Beam Dismount
Danusia Francis will have the most talked about Beam routine in the NCAA this season.
http://seenive.com/v/1025504543498452992/embed?mute=1
Click PLAY or watch the full routine on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTU3NzI2ODE2?related=1&autoplay=false
Watch more video of 2014 UCLA Gymnastics on gymnastike.org
Watch the interview with Danusia.
