Gymnastics Coaching.com

China on Rings

The biggest surprise for me at Worlds last year was that China won Team on Rings, not Pommels nor Parallel Bars.

Click PLAY or watch 2011 Chinese Ring Championships on YouTube.

1. Chen Yibing Tianjin 6.8; 8.975 ; 15.775
1. Yan Mingyong Shanghai 6.9; 8.875 ; 15.775
3. Liao Junlin Guangxi 6.8; 8.725 ; 15.525
4. Luo Xuan Hubei 6.8; 8.550; 15.350
5. Liao Qiuhua Guangdong 6.7; 8.525 ; 15.225
6. Guo Weiyang Liaoning 6.5; 8.650 ; 15.150
7. Liu Yang Army 6.5; 8.525 ; 15.025
8. Tao Zhuyong Army 6.5; 8.250 ; 14.750

This is one apparatus where the new Code has worked. Routines are more amazing than ever before in history, yet there’s not much more risk of injury.

(via All Things Gym)

1932 Olympic tumbling champion

They don’t make them like Rowland “Flip” Wolfe any more. He was born 1914.

Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.

…Wolfe was way ahead of his time particularly when one considers the surfaces tumblers had to contend with in the 20s and 30s. …

Had the International Gymnastics Federation recognized elements by naming them for one performer or another, a double twisting stretched back somersault might today be recalled as a “Wolfe”.

He was the first to perform this element in the Olympic Games.

… Wolfe could also perform a double back. He related that he did not perform a double back in the Olympics since his coach was not a reliable spotter. He describes a pile of corrugated cardboard arranged loosely in one corner of the gym along with rags and other soft material. He would then attempt double backs into the corner!

… He had a famous teammate, Charlie Pond, who later coached at the University of Illinois. Another DAC tumbler, Barbara Galleher Tonry, won nine NAAU tumbling titles. Every acrobat owes Pond a debt of gratitude since it was he who developed the twisting belt that bears his name. …

must watch Men’s Gymnastics video

Highlights from the 2010 worlds and 2011 Europeans.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’m in awe at how difficult Men’s gymnastics is today. Butterfly to Invert Cross on Rings !? … Merde.

Secondly, that (somehow) male gymnasts have found a way to manage the escalation of difficulty since 2006. It can’t go on like this forever, though. Nor can the value of your house keep increasing forever. 🙂

Great edit. Thanks RedNasvw from Netherlands.

2011 EYOF gymnastics mascot

EYOF = European Youth Olympic Festival. To be hosted in Turkey. Official website.

From the Facebook album: Wall Photos by Fangymnastics

new Bar release – the Monckton

Mary-Anne Monckton from Australia is competing a release similar to the over-valued (G) Shushanova (VIDEO).

Click PLAY or watch it in a 2010 routine on YouTube.

related – Between the Olympics – Monckton in the Lead After Day 1 of Victorian Championships

glide swing – forward position

Mary Lee Tracy is quite particular on how she wants the glide performed.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The purpose of a kip is to connect from a value part and/or to a value part. The high position on both of these might help some girls kip ‘late’, making the subsequent cross support swing easier.

But not necessarily.

FIG Academy host nations needed

In 2010 Hardy Fink, Director of FIG Education & Academy Programmes, organized 30 courses worldwide. Yet it seems there’s no slowing down.

During the remainder of 2011 there are four confirmed Level 3/Brevet Academies:

For Acrobatic Gymnastics (Lisbon, Portugal, June 22-29),

Rhythmic Gymnastics (Tokyo, Japan, December 5-12)

Artistic Gymnastics (Cancun, Mexico, November 14-21 and Tokyo, Japan, December 13-20).

FIG is looking for host nations for these courses to be held in early 2012:

MAG-WAG French/English proposed for Europe;
AER in Europe and Spanish in Central/South America;
RG February 18-25 in Portugal and Spanish in Central/South America;
TRA proposed January 15-22 in Europe and Spanish in Central/South America;
ACRO English/Spanish proposed for Europe.

Details

I recommend Iceland for the MAG/WAG.