Larisa fell on Beam. Ebee fell on Vault. 😦 (VIDEO)
Click PLAY or watch Larisa’s Bars on YouTube. (14.400)
No fall this week. 🙂
Verniaiev, Purvis, Likhovitskiy
Glasgow World Cup.
Oleg hit Horizontal Bar AGAIN for the win.
1. Oleg Verniaiev, Ukraine, 89.798 (fall on POM)
2. Daniel Purvis, Great Britain, 89.131
3. Andrey Likhovitskiy, Belarus, 88.597
Click PLAY or watch Oleg’s (not great) Floor on YouTube.
Though he won two major invitationals in a row, I’m still not convinced he’s become a good competitor.
Grace Kramer – Floor
When Swing Big linked to a Level 9 Floor routine, I had to check it out.
Somebody verbal Grace Kramer. This is over-the-top showtime choreography that most College teams could use. She’s class of 2016.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Nice late twist, too.
Grace is from Wildfire Gymnastics in Tustin, California.
Tony Retrosi interview
The new Intelligent Movement blog by coach Andrea out of Calgary has an excellent interview with clinician Tony Retrosi, 2010 USA Gymnastics Educator of the Year.
Andrea: You teach many clinics and give many talks, do you have a favorite speaking topic?
Tony: Lately I have really enjoyed teaching coaches HOW TO TEACH. A lecture title “Coaches as Educators”. I have been working on a book with the same title. I think there are many coaches who are better technicians than me but so many have forgotten that it really doesn’t matter WHAT you know if you can’t deliver it in a teachable fashion.
I’m looking forward to coaching again at Tony’s GYM MOMENTUM TRAINING CAMP 2014.
In fact, my summer’s already getting booked up with Camps. The earliest ever.
Gym Momentum website and Facebook
Douglass Johnson Olympics fund-raising
Douglass is not at all one of the strongest American contenders for Rio. Yet he’s got an indiegogo fund-raising campaign.
Click PLAY or watch it on indiegogo.
If it works for Douglass, other gymnast should consider crowd sourcing their fund-raising.
Iordache – the BIG Beam
After all her travels, Larisa doesn’t look tired to me. She’s training both fulls on Beam. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Njg3NzI1OTI0?related=1&autoplay=false
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Beautiful turn.
jumping subway tracks
Here’s a bad idea.
… Adding to the danger of the already wildly dangerous shoot, Koki was jumping TOWARD the third rail.
“People online have been saying he should’ve come from the other side, so he wasn’t going toward the third rail, but it would have been impossible,” Ying explained to Daily Intel. “We had scouted the subway pretty well. This spot is probably the only one where that was doable.”
According to the NYC Transit Rules of Conduct, it’s a violation just to STAND on a skateboard on the subway. And considering the rather frequent subway fatalities, we wouldn’t recommend any amateur skateboarders try this out anytime soon. …
Dvora Meyers is pretty sure she could clear those tracks, too. 🙂
Elizabeth Price – Bars
Killer set in podium training.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NDc0NzI1OTIy?related=1&autoplay=false
Watch more video of 2013 Glasgow World Cup and Espoir British Championships on gymnastike.org
There might be a more talented gymnast in the competition. But strength and consistency win more often than not in 2013.
Espoir Champ Catherine Lyons
The fan favourite won the all-around at Espoir British Championships 2013 with a fall on Bar dismount.
1.Catherine Lyons 56.300
2.Teal Grindle 55.650
3.Lucy Stanhope 51.250
Click PLAY or watch the post meet interview on YouTube.
Catherine is astonishingly eloquent for a young gymnast. 🙂
BG – Catherine Lyons takes Espoir British crown (results)
Chinese National Team
Catherine posted an excellent, detailed update on Team China on Beautiful Gymnastics:
China are a little mysterious. A lot of news is closed, the juniors tend to only compete in internal competitions of which videos are hard to find if Piibunina isn’t there…and there is just a general lack of news about them in the public English language domain. …
In my last post but one I detailed China’s new bonus system. Obviously it aims to strengthen areas in which they are weak as a country …
… change has to start somewhere and hopefully they become more accepting in that regard. Huang Yubin is the (still fairly new) head coach and he is starting …
Recently, the MAG and WAG seniors were given a challenge. For the women, they are expected to show a 3.5 twist on trampoline at the end of winter training next spring. …
Shang Chunsong did it immediately, winning an iPhone. 🙂
… China do not have much depth this quad. The ‘old guard’ are all at university. The current seniors that would make a team are: Yao Jinnan, Shang Chunsong, Huang Huidan, Tan Sixin, Zeng Siqi (maybe?) and Tan Jiaxin. There is also Lou Nina, a new senior, but she has been injured so is MIA at the moment. …
The quad is far from a write-off though as there is a glut of amazing juniors who will make their debut in 2015 and 2016. …
She has a full list of the current National Team and their coaches. And highlight videos.
Click PLAY or watch Wang Yan’s Vault on YouTube. (Senior in 2015.)
Good vault. GREAT form in the preflight. 🙂
Obviously Vault is the weak apparatus for China. It should be their highest priority.
