… The Romanian paper, Prosport just reported that Sandra Izbasa has been badly injured during a workout last night. During training her Tsukahara vaulttumbling, Izbasa ruptured her achilles tendon and damaged her metatarsals. She was sent as an emergency case to Bucharest by her coach, Forminte, who attributed it to a bad, bad landing.
Forminte also said that she was very lucky she had “the presence of mind” to pull her head around or it could have been worse (or maybe that he pulled her around- translation ever an issue!). …
Sandra was training for the Romanian Nationals to be held this weekend.
This workout was filmed Monday, September 7th at the Region 3 Optional Training Camp held at Capital Gymnastics in Cedar Park, Texas. The camp was put on by Region 3 Camp Coordinator and Aerial Athletics Coach Heather Schelzer. Camp Coaches included Tammy Biggs, Sean Golden, Tom Koll, and Neil and Patty Resnick.
Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) IS a superb dance video. If you’re not one of the 70 million who have watched it on YouTube, see it here.
I can’t embed the video on this site. But here’s one of those great new public TV commercials, this one organized by Trident gum to promote a free Beyoncé concert.
I saw Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z perform last night in concert. No sign of Beyoncé though she was in attendance at some of his recent shows. Nor did Jay-Z mention anything about the incident on stage.
Once again I am able to embed Gymnastike videos on this NEW version of GymnasticsCoaching.
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Coach Jim Jason Jarrett demonstrates the stages of spotting you should go through when teaching a clear hip on uneven bars. Footage is from the Hands On Spotting session of the 2009 GAT Convention.
Looks good. I’m not convinced that spotting is the best way to teach the skill, though.
Much faster is to learn it and perfect it on safety straps. Then later move it to bars. With as little spotting as possible.
Of course this Gymnastics Association of Texas session was a spotting session. Seems most coaches need to know how to spot a skill before learning how to teach it without spotting.
Great to see Tim McNeill from Cal Berkleley still training and on the team. He can contend on PH and PB.
I don’t know much about Jake Dalton. He does a Lopez vault, I know. Leave a comment if you know of a video of it posted to YouTube.
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The final Women’s team will be picked after a final selection camp starting September 30 at the Karolyi Ranch in Texas.
Round two invitees include: Jana Bieger, Rebecca Bross, MacKenzie Caquatto, Ivana Hong, Kytra Hunter, Chellsie Memmel, Samantha Peszek, Bridget Sloan, Cassie Whitcomb and Kayla Williams. (Kaitlyn Clark and Alaina Johnson were the two athletes not invited to the final camp.)
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For several injured athletes, time has run out. Petitioned National Team members Olivia Courtney (broken ankle in August), Mattie Larson (double ankle sprain in July) and Sam Shapiro (ankle surgery in June) did not attend last week’s first selection camp and are therefore, per the World Selection procedures, ineligible to advance to the second camp.
On Twitter, Samantha Pezek linked to the official announcement that she has withdrawn from the women’s 2009 World Championships Team selection process so she can undergo shoulder surgery.
Hey, the Nintendo’s WiiFit E3 (video) has great potential for beam training. The future looks bright for sport and fitness training in a “virtual world”.
Wii Fit is out in Japan. Scheduled for release on April 25, 2008 in Europe; May 8, 2008 in Australia; and May 19, 2008 in North America. US$90 and £69.99. So far it has Snowboarding and Ski Jumping. But other acrobatic sports cannot be far behind.
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