Don’t count them out. This is one serious and experienced squad.
Puerto Rico National Gymnastics Team training for the World Championships in Tokyo 2011 (Olympic Qualifiers).
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via @theallaround)
real life Make It or Break It
A new MTV reality TV show called ‘Gymnasts: Parallel Lives features REAL gymnasts training for the REAL Olympics.
Far more compelling than MIOBI.
Giuly informs us that clips already being subtitled in English. Here’s one giving a bit of insight into the life of Carlotta Ferlito, 3rd AA at the Youth Olympic Games.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Watch more subtitled video clips.
related – Couch Gymnast – CARLOTTA FERLITO- ITALY’S TRIUMPH! by
Giulia Holzer
introducing forward whip salto
Via GYMNAST CROSSING out of Santa Monica, California.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
That’s pretty much my favourite way to start the ‘whip layout’ forward. Additional steps could include 1-arm flyspring with each arm. And finger tip flyspring.
conditioning wheel
Kids love this.
Spin the wheel to decide the NEXT CONDITIONING exercise.
Twisters, Port Townsend, Washington. Coach Becca Cenovia.
Making conditioning more fun.
in praise of internet sharing
Despite fear mongering and pragmatic cautioning, people are sharing online like there’s no tomorrow.
I’m a big fan of journalism professor / internet pundit Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do?
His newest publication is Public Parts, the book. It touts the societal benefits of sharing:
… A visionary and optimistic thinker examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create identities, do business, and live our lives.
Thanks to the internet, we now live—more and more—in public. More than 750 million people (and half of all Americans) use Facebook, where we share a billion times a day. The collective voice of Twitter echoes instantly 100 million times daily, from Tahrir Square to the Mall of America, on subjects that range from democratic reform to unfolding natural disasters to celebrity gossip. New tools let us share our photos, videos, purchases, knowledge, friendships, locations, and lives. …
Click PLAY or watch an introduction on YouTube.
All organizations — including Gymnastics Canada — are struggling with how best to add social networking communication.
They need consult Jeff Jarvis.
Though I had two Facebook friends threaten to cancel their accounts last week, I still feel the benefits of internet sharing far outweigh risks.
(via Buzz Machine)
Gymnastics Reality TV – Italy
Have you heard of this?
MTV News: ‘Gymnasts: Parallel Lives‘, is a new series starting October 17th, the story of seven young Italian athletes
… emotional sporting adolescents (aged 14 to 20 years) who live, study and train in the Federal Center of Artistic Gymnastics in Milan, in view of the World Championships in Tokyo in October 2011 and the Olympics London in 2012.
Girls grappling with the relentless pace of athletic training, the pressure of international competition, discipline and daily sacrifices. Not only that, there are also the first flirting and love troubles, school concerns, changes in growth and body changes, shocks due to isolation from their families, friendships and rivalries with teammates. …
MTV (in Italian)
It sounds like Make It or Break It … with REAL gymnasts.
(via Double Front on Facebook)
Beth’s double Arabian 1/1-out
In the pit.
Former World Floor Champion, Beth Tweddle, age-26, is still improving.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Going for Gold)
Rhythmic Worlds promo video
advanced tumbling on thicker air floors
Doug Davis of Tumbl Trak feels the new air floors are good enough for the most advanced tumblers. Even for Trampoline Gymnastics Power Tumblers who compete Rod Floor.
I have my doubts. The timing is so different.
But Doug just might be right, the technology improving.
Click PLAY or watch the Gymnova on YouTube.
To transition to competition surface, you can add a mat to the top.
Click PLAY or watch a Tumbl Trak video on YouTube.
Chelsie Memmel trains regularly on one.
Training on these surfaces are much more fun, much safer. But are there any advantages over a normal Tumbl Trak?
related – air4tumble
Leave a comment if you’ve coached on thicker air floors.
Alexandra Orlando book launch
BOOK LAUNCH
Monday September 26th, 2011
Alexandra Orlando is an Olympic athlete who dedicated seventeen years of her life to the sport of rhythmic gymnastics, winning almost two hundred medals. She was Senior Canadian National Champion by the age of sixteen— a title she won five times, earning her the reputation as one of the few non-Europeans competing at the highest level in this sport …
Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships is in progress in France.
… Gymnasts placing among the top 15 in the All-around qualify their country directly for the Olympic Games 2012 in London, while ranks 16-24 will have participation rights at the second Olympic qualifier, the test event on January 16-18, also in London. …
Gymnastics Coaching.com 