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Kathryn Geddert, coach of World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist Jordyn Wieber from Twistars Gymnastics. Kathryn shares a drill that helps gymnasts with the ballistic splitting of leaps on beam and floor. Kathryn talks about what should be focused on during the drill and the numbers she uses with this drill in her workouts.
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At the recent Alberta Gymnastics Congress I got my first chance to see this document. It’s a Rec instructor training program for ages 13-14.
Gymnastics Canada has updated their (old) Development Leader (Dev’L) program, rebranding it the “Pre-CIT program”.
details via Rec Gymnastics
GymRep Camp in Quebec has one of these BLOBs. Much deadlier than they look.
… some folks at Lake Powell in Southern Utah kicking …
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http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=a02c50568b5e
Thanks George.
… When FIG President Professor Bruno Grandi and Secretary General André Gueisbuhler visited our International Headquarters in Montreal, we seized the opportunity to take them behind the scenes of our new show Amaluna …
Acrobatic coach Stacy Clark.
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The favourites to win Dancing With the All-Stars, I reckon.
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(via Examiner)
Famed Vladimir School of Gymnastics celebrated their 50th anniversary on October 12th. That the gym that produced Nikolai Andrianov, Yuri Korolev, Yuri Ryazanov and many others.
Rewriting Russian Gymnastics has a very interesting post on what’s happening at that gym:
… (coach) Yuri Korolev intends to leave Vladimir. He is convinced that Vladimir doesn’t need him.
– I was working with a gymnast – Yuri Barkalov, but he’s gone, – said Yuri Korolev. – Currently, I’m unemployed although I earn 20,000 roubles a month. I have prospects. I’ll have to leave my home town.
Yuri Korolev was very harsh on current gymnasts.
– They lack ideals. Now everything valuable is measured in money, and not with your country’s prestige, – he said. – By the way, the situation is natural, since we have a group of six rich athletes and the rest works as hard as them but earns much less. …
Vladimir School of Gymnastics 50 Years on … an allegory of Soviet and Russian gymnastics history?
I was there when Korolev won the 1985 World Championships in a stunner. He’s one tough competitor.
Click PLAY or watch a Korolev montage on YouTube.
Korolev is, quite arguably, the most decorated non-Olympian (male or female) gymnast of all time.
It’s interesting and sometimes amusing to watch gymnastics coaches, especially in competition.
In preparation for his role in Stick It, Jeff Bridges studied American coaches at Junior Olympic competitions. And asked gymnasts, including Isabelle Severino, how he should act in certain situations.
Scientific research contends that “power posing” actually works. That you can “fake it until you BECOME it“.
Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.
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Thanks Ron.
Brain child of Atelier Zündel Cristea for a Paris bridge design competition:
… It may result in some broken necks and legs but screw it, that’s the price you pay for having a way to cross the river Seine jumping like Spider-Man. …
It’s made with “inflatable modules, like giant life-preservers, 30 meters in diameter” and filled with “3700 cubic meters of air.” Each of them have a trampoline mesh In the central part of each ring, a trampoline mesh is stretched. Oh, and they got stairs and slides on both sides. …
gizmodo – This Is the Coolest Bridge I Can Imagine
via Hal Halvorson and Dian Nissen Ramirez on Facebook
Many sites have linked to this good news:
… Gabrielle Douglas of Virginia Beach, Va./Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute, was named the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 2012 Sportswoman of the Year …
Olympic all-around champions Mary Lou Retton (1984) and Nastia Liukin (2008) previously won this award.
In the Great White North, more recognition for Gymnastics sports:
2012 Canadian Sport Awards Winners
Female Athlete of the Year: Rosannagh MacLennan, Trampoline, King City, ON
Volunteer Achievement Award: Slava Corn, Gymnastics
Rosie MacLennan won Canada’s only gold medal of the London Games in the trampoline event. It was MacLennan’s second Olympics on the trampoline, having finished seventh overall at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Nice edit. Fast cuts. Plenty of close-ups.
This weeks workout is with the preseason #2 the University of Michigan Wolverines. In 2012 the Wolverines finished 6th in team finals at the NCAA Championships after winning their preliminary session. Two Michigan gymnasts Sam Mikulak and Syque Caesar were busy over the summer as they competed at the 2012 London Olympics. Looking ahead to 2013, this Wolverine squad is stacked with talent and depth with sights set on a National Championships.
This season five scores will count toward the team score instead of four as it has been …
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