AUSTRALIA’S first family of gymnastics has moved …
Vladimir Joura and his wife Irina recently moved from Western Australia to Alexandra Hills to take up the positions of head coach and senior coach respectively of the women’s artistic gymnastics (WAG) high performance program at the Queensland Academy of Sport at Nathan, alongside their 14-year-old daughter and national junior squad member Natalia. …
This excellent site is posted by Enrique Trabanino from Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy, Mary Lee Tracy’s gym. He is a former National Team member from El Salvador.
He sells his gymnastics coaching Clinics on DVD for $25 each.
There are some free “teaser” clips on his Videos page. One sample.
Looks great.
There are more free Bar training tutorials on his YouTube Channel. (If you’re a Bar coach, you need to see those. Awesome.)
SUBSCRIBE to Enrique’s channel if you want him to post more video.
I’ve always like this young woman. And after this interview, I like her better.
She jokes about being the youngest American Olympian in Beijing …
… “Nobody knew who I was before that day,” she said. “But after that, everybody knew who I was. I was Bridget Sloan, the Olympian. I’ve kind of come out of my shell since then. I can honestly say that at the Olympics, I grew up.”
Sloan is now considered the best all-around gymnast in the world. At national team training camps, she is the go-to person when younger gymnasts seek advice. She gives them pointers like how to deal with the national team coordinator, Marta Karolyi. She warns them: “If you’re not 10 minutes early, you’re late. That’s Marta time.” …
… Pop lives and coaches in Marseille, France, but travels extensively designing routines for the national teams of Romania, China and Australia. In the United States, she choreographs exclusively for the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy.
Pop has created routines for some of the world’s best gymnasts, including reigning world champion Cheng Fei of China and Olympic floor exercise champion Catalina Ponor of Romania. …
Called Xiao Ruizhi after the Chinese gymnast. And sometimes referred to as “Marinich” after Vitaly Marinich who competed it at about the same time. Watch a video of Vitaly doing it in 1989.
Charlie does a HUGE version. From Stalder. (No name for that variation.)
Some video from a couple of years ago. Charlie Tamayo working on some new skillls.
There’s a thread on the IG Forum right now on women who have competed this skill most famously the 1991 World Champion on Bars, Kim Gwang Suk. She connects it from Tkachev!
She certainly deserved to win Bars that year, a giant step forward for North Korea. Unfortunately, she was the first of the age falsification scandal gymnasts.
… The FIG punished the North Korean gymnastics federation by barring their women’s team from the 1993 World Championships. Kim, however, was permitted to keep the medals she had won in international events, including her 1991 World Championships gold. …
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