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This seems to be a routine new to YouTube.

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As cheeky as they come, is it true that Tatiana is all grown up now? And Serious?

A moment at the 2013 FISU Games. 🙂

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Jeroen van der Eb, Bert Coolen, Chris Laumans, Rik van der Sar, Andreas Daffertshofer

VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands

31 International Conference on Biomechanics in Sports (2013)

Abstract:

We developed a video-based analysis system to monitor and analyze performance in technical sports, the CoachCockPit.

The CoachCockPit captures footage of a performance, stores and presents it instantly.

Footage can automatically be analyzed and fed back. We show how daily training activity of trampolinists is monitored and parameters like number of routines, number of jumps per routine, or jump height, can be extracted.

Over weeks and month these parameters display trends that provide information about training progress in relation to the aimed-for training results. Overtraining and stress fractures are crucial risk factors in trampoline jumping. The deployment of the CoachCockPit in trampoline jumping will, in the future, help to predict these risk factors at an early stage.

MONITORING TRAINING LOAD OF ELITE TRAMPOLINISTS; FIRST RESULTS; AN AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR DAILY USE (PDF)

🙂

Thanks Topaze.

Thanks Sports Girls Play.

I’d love to see more twisting dismounts. Especially for tall, slim gymnasts.

Click PLAY or watch Emerson Porter on YouTube.

She competes it. (VIDEO)

Emerson trains at Southeastern Gymnastics in North Carolina.

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Seen on nontamax.tumblr

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Bad parenting.

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Gigi Khazback Farid:

… an incredible routine during the all around competition of the Goodwill games in 1990 … the kind of routine that we are all missing nowadays.

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I’ve never seen this Bars “contest” before.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2009)

… not a particularly good idea.

M’rcy Matsunami is the gymnast who first competed (USAG JO) toe-on, counter Kim. (2010 VIDEO)

Robert M. Malina, Adam D. G. Baxter-Jones, Neil Armstrong, Gaston P. Beunen, Dennis Caine, Robin M. Daly, Richard D. Lewis, Alan D. Rogol, Keith Russell

Abstract:

Short stature and later maturation of youth artistic gymnasts are often attributed to the effects of intensive training from a young age. …

… the Scientific Commission of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) convened a committee to review the current literature and address four questions:

(1) Is there a negative effect of training on attained adult stature?

(2) Is there a negative effect of training on growth of body segments?

(3) Does training attenuate pubertal growth and maturation, specifically, the rate of growth and/or the timing and tempo of maturation?

(4) Does training negatively influence the endocrine system, specifically hormones related to growth and pubertal maturation?

… Allowing for noted limitations, the following conclusions were deemed acceptable:

(1) Adult height or near adult height of female and male artistic gymnasts is not compromised by intensive gymnastics training.

(2) Gymnastics training does not appear to attenuate growth of upper (sitting height) or lower (legs) body segment lengths.

(3) Gymnastics training does not appear to attenuate pubertal growth and maturation, neither rate of growth nor the timing and tempo of the growth spurt.

(4) Available data are inadequate to address the issue of intensive gymnastics training and alterations within the endocrine system.

Role of Intensive Training in the Growth and Maturation of Artistic Gymnasts

The full PDF is linked.

In short, Artistic Gymnastics does not make you short.

Olympians Hannah Whelan (4ft 9in) and rower Josh West (6ft 91/2in).