Stalder / Endo progressions

Gymnastics Planet:

… learn the skill from underneath and build the height of the stalder/endo swing as the gymnast develops more strength.

One thing we look at is making sure the gymnast fully understands keeping their shoulders as extended as possible whilst behind the bar, therefore easily being able to gain height on the swings and develop the swing upwards towards handstand.

Closing the shoulders on top of the bar (Straddle lever) shortens the bodies radius about the bar making the stalder circle “close” and undesirable as the handstand position that we want the skill to finish in becomes very difficult to achieve.

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Florida #1 this week

GymInfo – Top 25 Teams

27 February 2012 – by Regional Qualifying Average

1 Florida 197.195
2 Oklahoma 197.145
3 UCLA 197.025
4 Georgia 196.830
5 Alabama 196.730
6 Nebraska 196.585
7 Utah 196.555
8 Arkansas 196.545
9 Oregon State 196.250
10 L.S.U. 196.245
11 Penn State 195.950
12 Stanford 195.895

See the full list.

Photo Gallery: Georgia vs. Florida

storing Bar rails

Michele Soucy from Campia Gymnastics:

… small gym is jam packed with equipment and one of our volunteer dads, Rod Oldford, came up with this neat idea for storing bar rails. Just PVC pipe!

CAN @ USA MAG Camp

Canadian Jr National MAG Coach Markos Baikas:

… a few pictures from the training camp with the U.S. Juniors in Colorado Springs, Feb 20 -26. …

Great experience for the athletes and coaches. And a great welcome from USA Gymnastics.

The American Juniors are bloody good.

UCLA throws down – 198.050

That’s a VERY HIGH number.

Couch Gymnast:

… UCLA, who have been floundering a little this season have just knocked out a massive score of 198.050 against Arizona State. …

According to our college writer, Lauren Hopkins, the scoring looked to be fair and well-deserved in what was simply a spectacular performance by the star-studded team. …

Comeback kid Vanessa Zamarripa killed the all around with a final score of 39.625, chased by Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs with a 39.575. …

UCLA Earns Mammoth Score

If Vanessa’s 100% ready come Championships, UCLA just might be the narrow favourites to win another team title.

On the other hand, UCLA’s Sam Peszek said recently that she feels the top 6 Team that puts everything together on THE DAY will win in 2012. There are a lot of contenders this season.

Bailey Gardner 10.0 Vault

Twistars level 10 gymnast Bailey Gardner scored a perfect 10.00 on vault in the final rotation of the 2012 Legendz Classic meet to help her team edge Team Patterson for the gold medal.

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

Watch more video of Kim Zmeskal’s Texas Prime – Legendz Classic 2012 on gymnastike.org

Great West Gym Fest Olympians

Thanks Mohini Bhardwaj, Terin Humphrey, Joyce Tanac-Schroeder, Daniela Silivas and Kyle Shewfelt for inspiring the kids at our meet!

Pittsburg girls with Olympians

Great West Gym Fest, Idaho

Add these dates to your calendar » Feb 22-24, 2013

gymnastics “wall”

I can’t coach without wall space. Every day, every gymnast needs to do my wall complex just after warm-ups. If you’ve got problems with handstand, you’ve got problems with gymnastics.

At Eastside Gymnastics Academy in Woodinville, WA, they’ve got an ideal wall with floor bars at the ready.

Photo – Diana Hughes from Tumbl Trak. And thanks to coach Ben Carson for inviting us.

odd Japanese Gymnastics ad

gedatzeni:

I stumbled across this advertisement on Fuji TV …

The original video did not have sound for some strange reason, so I decided to put some new music on instead. I hope you all find it as amusing as I did!

I love the characters so much that I even made the FX (Yukazo) my wallpaper a few months ago! …

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