Cool.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NDY5NzE4MTU3?related=1&autoplay=false
She’s competing Secret this weekend.
via GymFever
Secret Classic Vault
USA will almost certainly send two of four gymnasts to Worlds 2013 to collect Vault medals.
But which two?
From Podium training …
Click PLAY or watch Simone Biles’ Amanar on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch McKayla Maroney’s first Vault on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch McKayla Maroney’s second Vault on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Brenna Dowell’s Amanar on YouTube.
She’s been training that for years. Nice to see it in competition. 🙂
Watch more podium training on the USA Gymnastics YouTube channel.
Washington State Gymnastics
I popped in for the first day of the annual Washington State Gymnastics Clinic to show the new Tumbl Trak Laser Beam.
Emerald City Gymnastics is a terrific host. Two large gymnasiums. Plenty of classroom space.
learning the new Compulsories
On Friday, All Around State champions from level 7,8,9,10, about 40 girls, worked with 5 coaches: John Carney from Missouri, Justin Howell from Cal Berkley, Ivan Alexov from the Mac Club in Portland and the Head Women’s Team Coach from Bulgaria, Connie Maloney from USAG and Nola Ayers a Judge and famous High School Gymnastics Coach in Washington State.
John Carney
more Emerald City photos
Whelan, Tunney in Ireland
Full Twist is at Renmore Gymnastics:
This weekend, Thursday 25th – Sunday 28th July, Ireland will welcome two time Olympian Hannah Whelan and London 2012 Olympian Rebecca Tunney to a WAG Summer Camp in Galway.
Joining the Olympians will be their City of Liverpool coach Claire Louise Duffy, Senior team mate and British Silver All Around Champion Charlie Fellows and junior, Olivia Williams. Also attending will be esteemed choreographer Daniela Nanova, a former Bulgarian Artistic and Rhythmic gymnast. …
GymCastic – Laurie Hernandez, Maggie Haney
I really enjoyed episode 41 of the GymCastic audiocast.
Especially the wide ranging interview with one of the highest potential Juniors in the world, Laurie Hernandez, and her straight talking coach Maggie Haney.
Lauren “Laurie”/ “Baby Shakira” Hernandez turns 16 right before the 2016 Olympic Games. She completely stole the show at the 2012 Secret Classic in Chicago and she’ll be back this weekend.
In our interview she told us her epic wipeout stories, opinion of cutsie routines, which area of The Ranch should be filmed for a TV show [Gymnastike! That question was for you!] and cultivating her signature style.
Her coach, Maggie Haney talks about the pressure of coaching a gymnast who’s routines stop traffic, her difficulty vs execution strategy, the advice Marta Karolyi gave her, teaching her athletes how to lose as well as win, dealing with burnout when she was done racking up perfect 10s at North Carolina State University, giving birth just days before returning to the gym to coach and the appropriate amount of time to keep a floor routine.
Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.
More than any other American, she reminds me of Courtney McCool. Yet has never trained ballet.
Laurie’s one of the few junior gymnasts that have been named to the U.S. National Team.
Episode 41: Laurie Hernandez & Coach Maggie Haney
You can listen to the interview from that link. And watch recent highlight routines from Brinn Bevan, Maria Kharenkova, Kim Janas and more.
girl’s Parkour
At our annual summer Gymnastics Camp we’ve added a mixed Gymnastics / Parkour set-up outdoors.
Many of the girls did not know what the word Parkour meant.
It’s getting increasingly popular with girls. And it’s good psychological cross training for WAG.
Lynn Jung … with her sisters Daniell and Tamara.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Trampoline Tumbling Cali
Trampoline goes July 29-31, 2013.
USA sent 13 gymnasts to compete in synchronized trampoline, tumbling, double mini-trampoline and acrobatic gymnastics.
Sounds like there’s some problems with the T & T venue. 😦
Simone Biles – triple double
moving the Spring board closer
Nick Blanton:
The closer the springboard is to the Vaulting Table the faster the heels must drive…
Check out this video – this gymnast is experimenting with the board in line with the front of the Table!
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10201778798251146
Scherbo did exactly this. I recall him, at age-17, putting the Spring board UP on to the legs of the old vault horse. Far closer than any other international competitor.
It’s counter-intuitive, but fact is that weak, slow beginners need move the Spring board back. Or lower the horse.
the Thorsdottir fan club
EYOF 2013 Beam Silver – Eythora Thorsdottir from Netherlands 13.800.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
She makes an Onodi wobble look elegant.
via Beautiful Gymnastics – EYOF in a nutshell
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