Romanians using grips

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Mariana Bitang declared … the reconstruction of the team in view of the next quad has already started with Romania’s weakest apparatus: all gymnasts have started using grips on uneven bars.

… “We tried starting using them before, with a few girls. But if one of them didn’t get used to grips, she would give up and thus, in a team, in a meet it’s hard to prepare the bars because they are done differently. For instance for working with grips the bar has more chalk whereas for bare palms is prepared with honey, chalk and water and there must be uniformity in the team.”

… ”The one who tries to convince me she is unable to work with grips is Diana Bulimar but I told her that, at any risk, even if it means not going to any competition this fall, we will not take them off. …

Bea Gheorghisor – The Romania Update; Grips, Gym Changes and Hot Frocks

… Why didn’t some coach think of this sooner?

Aerial – conditioning / visualization

… coach Coach Heather Schnelzer of Aerial Athletics takes her optional teams through a creative conditioning session.

… this workout utilizes an elementary school located near the gym …

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MTk0NjU3MjM0?related=1

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

unusual P Bar dismounts

Last week I helped out at Taiso, Saskatoon, as the Head Coach — Markos Baikos — was away at an international meet.

Parallel Bars dismounts are boring. Almost everyone competes double pike. A couple of the guys started playing with alternatives.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… Yes. They KNOW they need a double front like Charlie Tamayo. (VIDEO)

One reason I’m happy that Marcel is our Olympic Silver medalist in the AA is his very cool P Bar dismount.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

SUPER GYMNASTICS FAN:

The only gymnasts I saw do a p bars dismount that wasn’t a double back piked at the 2012 Olympics:

1-2 Daniel Corral and Mykola Kuksenkov : Double front tucked
3. David Belyavskiy: Double front piked
4. Marcel Nguyen: full twisting double back

related – Facebook – Taiso boys landing drill – dropping from the Ring Tower (VIDEO)

connection on Beam

Coaches everywhere are dissecting the new Code, looking for highest start value with least deduction.

Romanian site Fangymnastics is posting video examples.

2013 – 2016 Gymnastics Code of Points – Connection Values on Beam – Part 1

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – 2013 – 2016 Gymnastics Code of Points – Connection Values on Bars (VIDEO)

310lb Anthony Adams – GYMNAST

Anthony Adams is a football player, most recently for the Chicago Bears.

But at 310lb (141kg) — when in shape — “Spice” decided to start training for the Rio Olympics. In Gymnastics.

How’s that working out for him?

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His tryout for professional basketball wasn’t nearly so successful.

t-shirt — If gymnastics were easy …

Thanks George.