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Amy, inspired perhaps by gymmako, is starting Yurchenko. At adult gym.

What are the first steps?

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Leave a comment if you’ve additional drills for her.

Divers are much more artistic than Artistic gymnasts.

… But are they are allowed to “cowboy” saltos on some skills. Leave a comment if you know the rules on that. (Perhaps we could get more specific on our gymnastics regulations.)

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UPDATE: From Mike:

D 8.5.2 During the flight, the position of the dive shall be at all times aesthetically pleasing. Should any of the positions not be shown as described below, each judge shall deduct ½ to 2 points, according to his opinion.

Tuck (C)

D 8.5.7 In the tuck position the body shall be compact, bent at the knees and hips with the knees and feet together. The hands shall be on the lower legs and the toes pointed.

It’s not specifically “allowed”. But is used as judges evaluate from the side.

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Posted on Nastia’s site.

The most important phases of the Yurchenko vault are the sprint, hurdle, round-off, take-off, and preflight. The rest is EASY.

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That’s ‘E” from Go For It Gymnastics in Las Vegas. He reminded us of a young Kyle Shewfelt. … Or a young Casey Sandy.

E was demonstrator for a clinic with the 2004 Olympic champion on Floor, Kyle Shewfelt.

Kyle first did the “Shewfelt” vault (Yurchenko 2 1/2) at about age-16.

Jenna Weinerman emails to let us know that coach Zak Kerkoulas set a new Guinness World Record at Chelsea Piers, New York – 39.23 seconds!

It’s yet to be official. But Zak broke the previous record by 6.39 seconds

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Russian Cup AA:

1. Aliya Mustafina 62.271,
2. Ksenia Afanasyeva 58.674,
3. Ksenia Semyonova 56.868.

Scores include bonuses awarded at Russian WAG competitions

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1. Khorokhordin 89.550;
2. Pakhomenko 87.800;
3. Deviatovskii 87.550;
4. Belyavskii 87.000;
5. Dyomin 85.850

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by site editor Rick McCharles

Matthew Miscisin authored The Big Book of Gymnastics Games:

While growing up in a family of ten children I had an abundance of early lessons in cooperation and competition. …

Matthew sent me a copy for review. It’s excellent.

But what I got was much different than expected. From the title – Big Book of Gymnastics Games – I expected traditional warm-up games like those in Rushkin’s Up Down All Around lesson plans. And in Dave Adlard’s Cool Games DVDs.

Not.

Matthew’s “Games” are mostly contests and drills. With FUN names like:

• Cartwheel of Doom
• Human Catapult
• Flip-Flop Factory

It could be called Big Book of Gymnastics Contests for Serious Skill Development.

Matthew:

One of the biggest challenges a gymnastics coach faces is motivating the students to perform a skill or exercise with enough repetition to produce mastery. Another challenge is motivating the students to put 100% of their effort and concentration into each attempt …

If you want to have more FUN at training, this text is highly recommended.

Amazon

Retail price is $25 plus about $3 standard shipping (in USA), $7 priority shipping and about $14 international shipping. It is also available at the wholesale price of about $15 domestic shipping included (media mail) through Gymnasticsman.com.

You can also download games one-at-a-time for a dollar each.

The review copy will be donated to Keith Russell‘s library at U of Saskatchewan.

Al Fong:

… We have drills using panel mats as vaulting boards because sometimes our athletes don’t put 100% effort into their punches off the vault board. How do we know if they do or not? One way to find out. We take the vault board away and have them vault without it. It really makes them work.

Then put the board back in and watch them punch off the board to the ceiling. …

Who needs a board anyway!

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A collection of past issues is posted online

Note that some old links to specific Technique articles no longer work.

Everyone is surprised at what a success YOG turned out to be. It looks like the Youth Olympic Games are here to stay.

I’ve not heard of a single overage athlete scandal.

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Better athletes will be coming to the next Youth Olympics, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Thursday. ..

The head of the U.S. Olympic Committee on Tuesday blamed scheduling conflicts for the Americans’ woeful performance in the inaugural Youth Olympics, where their gold medal tally is less than Hungary and Azerbaijan. …

The Youth Olympics, which closed Thursday, were dominated by China, which won 30 gold medals and 51 overall. Russia was second with 19 gold medals and South Korea was third with 11.

The United States won only four gold medals, and U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun said earlier this week that scheduling conflicts had kept some top American athletes from competing in Singapore.

The Youth Olympics featured 3,600 athletes aged 14 to 18 from 204 national Olympic committees competing in 26 sports. …

“These Youth Games have definitely exceeded vastly my highest expectations,” Rogge said. “I did not expect this level of perfection in organization. Hats off to Singapore for what they have done.”

Rogge says Youth Olympics to have better athletes

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The inaugural youth winter games will be held in Innsbruck, Austria, in 2012 and the summer games in Nanjing, China in 2014. Lillehammer, Norway, which hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics, is the only city that has expressed an interest in hosting the 2016 winter games, and has until November to submit a formal bid, the IOC said.

related – Missing top talent hurts US team at Youth Olympics