Fabian – Horizontal Bar

The All Around Gymnastics News:

Fabian Hambüchen dominates German MAG Qualification for 2013 World Championships with a 87.95 – 16.35 on HB (7.4).

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Sports2Visuals:

Olympic champions Krisztian Berki (HUN) and Epke Zonderland (NED) won the gold medals on respectively pommel horse and high bar at the 2013 Magyar Grand Prix. Casimir Schmidt (VT/FX), Yuri van Gelder (SR) and Vasileios Tsolakidis (PB) took the other gold medals.

Noemi Makra (HUN) won two gold medals (VT, UB) in the women’s competition.

Gymnastics Canada Program Director

Gymnastics Canada is hiring. Deadline for application Oct 4th.

The primary responsibility of the Program Director – ArG is the overall leadership and management of the Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (MAG & WAG) programs within the scope of the GCG strategic and operational plans.

The Program Director works and makes decision in consultation with the Chief Technical Officer (CTO), National Team Directors, MAG & WAG Program Committees and Program Assemblies. …

details – GCG Program Director Artistic Gymnastics – Job Posting – September 2013 (PDF)

Current GCG Staff.

does Gymnastics stunt your growth?

If you Google, you’ll find any number of sources saying that intensive training in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics stunts and / or alters growth and development.

FIG called a colloquium of experts February 2011 to discuss the issue.

Results were published June 2013.

Sports Medicine – Role of Intensive Training in the Growth and Maturation of Artistic Gymnasts:

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.

You can read the entire paper here. (PDF)

The long and the short of it …

Roy Hibbert and McKayla Maroney
Roy Hibbert and McKayla Maroney

Gymnastics does not make you short. Basketball does not make you tall.

Gymnastics Sport Science PDFs

The FIG Sport Science Commission has a database of reputable peer reviewed journals citations including “Gymnastics” as one of the key words or tags.

They are collecting PDFs of those citations now.

Sample:

Role of Intensive Training in the Growth and Maturation of Artistic Gymnasts (PDF)

If you are aware of any private collections of PDF citations, or have one yourself, you could contact me.

RickMcCharles (a) gmail.com

Private collections can be shared.

GymCastic – Kyla Ross

This week, 2012 Olympic team gold medalist, Kyla Ross, and her mom, Kiana, join us. Kyla tells us about training smart after time off, upgrades, her fantasy tumbling skill, the status of her Amanar, who she looks up to in the gym, overcoming fear and mental blocks, her infamous Championships lipstick and the “saviors of the US team.”

Kiana reveals who gave the family the most important advice about going pro, why Gym-Max is so unique and the best advice she ever received about navigating the world of elite gymnastics. …

listen here – Episode 48: Kyla Ross

at the VMAs
at the VMAs

Like Shawn Johnson before 2008, Kyla trains only once a day. Enjoys school.

coach in the Yukon

Polarettes Gymnastics Club urgently needs help with their competitive women’s program.

Great gym attached to a school.

Whitehorse

Email polarettesgymnastics (a) yahoo.com for details.