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Brenna Dowell trains at the May Women’s National Team Camp, including a new Amanar and two new tumbling passes.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
When I was at GAGE two years ago, Brenna was doing Amanar this well in training. Perhaps it’s new to show at Camp.
Oldies. But goodies. 🙂
1. Oksana Chusovitina 1975 56.050
2. Anna Pavlova 1987 55.200
3. Barbora Mokošová 1997 52.750
Six-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina (Uzbekistan) won the all-around and vault titles at the 26th Gym-Festival Trnava, held Saturday and Sunday in the western Slovakian city.
Chusovitina, who turns 38 on June 19, topped fellow veteran Anna Pavlova (Russia), 56.050-55.200. Slovakian first-year senior Barbora Mokošová won the bronze (52.750).
They were teammates at Pro Gym Challenge.
… at the May Women’s National Team Camp, including new sequences on bars, beam and floor.
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(via USAG on Facebook)
May Camp videos like that will be rolled out one-a-day over the next 3 weeks. Well done USAG. 🙂
Coach Markos Baikas is frustrated.
Frustrated that Parallel Bar locking mechanisms fail so quickly. Frustrated that replacement parts from Spieth in Europe would cost a fortune.
Instead, we’re trying to find a local machine shop that could rethread or, perhaps, replace the locking mechanism.
Leave a comment if you’ve any advice.
Split Leap has an unofficial updated list of American gymnasts who have qualified to Classics and USA Championships.
Jr Sydney Johnson-Scharpf from Brandy Johnson’s has personality. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch a March 1st interview on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTk1Njk3Mjk2?related=1&autoplay=false
Watch more video of Sydney Johnson-Scharpf on gymnastike.org
Where I live clubs are wrapping up. Starting summer training.
Here’s how Team Bounce celebrated.
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This is the same time of year when gymnasts decide whether or not to continue for another season.
I find June the most difficult month for motivation.
Have FUN in June.
I previously posted the Corona Arch rope swing.
This one’s bigger. 😦
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Gear Chase)
Slim objects twist more easily. Short objects flip more easily.
True.
But ASSuming that taller, slimmer gymnasts will twist well … or that short, wider shouldered gymnasts will flip well … is an over simplification.
Al Fong:
Although the training opportunities can be identical for learning how to twist or flip, some gymnasts favor one over the other. Nothing wrong there—it’s normal…especially for big skills like back double layouts, arabian double pike fronts, double doubles, triple twists, randi’s, etc….
On my current elite team, Sarah Finnegan is great at both flips and twists while Maddie Desch leans toward twisting. Brenna Dowell always prefers front tumbling over back tumbling while Sabrina Vega has no preference.
Click PLAY or watch Sabrina Vega at Worlds 2011 on YouTube.
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