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Side-in, back-out dismount!
Luke Wiwatowski on the Aussie Men
The Australian National Team member speaks his mind:
Nationals has concluded and there are a few things to take away from the competition. Firstly this is a building year for all the athletes and we are taking a different approach to previous cycles in this quadrennial. Our focus is in difficulty building first and concentrating on cleaning and polishing our routines later in the cycle. the results may look disheartening at this competition and many will say perhaps this is the wrong strategy. …
For the last couple of years the Australian Men’s Team has consistently come between 16th and 19th at various World Championships. We’ve held a strategy for a long time of simply concentrating on clean routines with little difficulty and for the most part have been resting on our laurels for way too long with the standard of gymnastics changing around us. If we pursue this alternate strategy then whether we succeed or fail at least I can safely say we gave a red hot go at dislodging the status quo. I can also fairly safely say we have little to lose and possibly much to gain. …
Nationals 2013 Concludes
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Luke’s 2013 Australian Nationals results. (2nd AA after Tsukahara)
The GO CLEAN strategy was also used by Canada. They finished 13th in 2012, out of the Team competition.
Netherlands hosts International friendly
PROMO for the international friendly in Alphen aan den Rijn on 31 August/1 September.
Netherlands (12)
Great Britain (7)
Germany (8)
Austria (3)
Finland (6)
Belgium (3)
Sweden (2)
Romania (2/3)
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using sliders for pirouette
John Smith from NASA has a list of 52 exercises using furniture moving sliders to physically prepare Artistic gymnasts.
Here’s a good one. Handstand on one slider, spot pirouette. Then full pirouette. Gymnast tries to torque with the hands.
To be successful the gymnast must be tight and stretched.
on mistakes …
Uchimura – double layout, quad twist
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killer Peng Peng Beam combo
It just kills me that Christine Lee did not get a chance to show the world her joyful and astonishing routines at the Olympics.
She had upgrades on all 4 apparatus planned for London. This one on Beam.
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https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10151502656766867
I saw her pull that off in training taking off the end of the Beam and GAINERING the back salto to stay on.
OMG
Popa, Gonzalez win Spanish Championships
WOW.
Roxana Popa 58.083
Maria Paula Vargas 56.250
Silvia Colussi – Pelaez 53.400
Fabian is up with the best gymnasts in the world too, of course.
Fabian Gonzalez 89.000
Nestor Abad 85.050
Javier Gomez 85.034
Click PLAY or watch her Floor from Jr European Championships on YouTube.
(via Full Twist)
meanwhile, in Idaho …
Our annual Summer Gymnastics Camp starts today. Nastia should be here by about noon.
But there’s been plenty of action in the days leading up.
THURSDAY – Proactive Coaching clinics
FRIDAY – Golf Tourney fundraiser and DEMO
SATURDAY – Tumbl Trak GOOD HABITS coaching clinic
SATURDAY – TOPS testing
Check out our HPT Camp website for more.
European Youth Olympic Festival
Bea Gheorghisor wraps up the event for Couch Gymnast, the best articles I’ve seen so far.
EYOF Notes and Conclusions Part 1
EYOF Notes and Conclusions Part 2
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