Smarter gymnasts and coaches suffer less lost time due to rips.
Some are avoidable.
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Sierra Brooks’ – Big Day
Vault, Bars, Floor.
Flashback.
Bart Deurloo – H Bar combo
I’ve never seen this amazing sequence before.
Physical Preparation FIRST
Alyona Shchennikova – Floor
Horizontal Bar – preventing griplock
Over the years I’ve seen griplock injuries 2 or 3 times. Never to one of my own gymnasts, happily.
Grip lock is a … injury that rarely occurs in gymnastics …
Athletic trainers and therapists should become familiar with the cubital grip positions that place gymnasts at high risk for grip lock injury and carefully observe performances
on the high bar in men’s gymnastics …Grip lock injury may be prevented through education of gymnasts and their coaches …
Lali Dekanoidze – Bars
Charlotte Pipe – Beam 1989
Charlotte was the amazing Canadian gymnast who competed Flair on both Beam and Bars.
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