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Another excellent post by Rawles. Her first tutorial was on international Vault.

.. bars is the most technical of the apparatus and for this reason the hardest for the layman to accurately judge! It can actually be pretty difficult to even realize that some has done something wrong sometimes on bars if you aren’t aware of exactly what they are supposed to be doing and even though ub is arguably my FAVOURITE event, even I am really murky on the exact distinctions when it comes to certain types of skills and suchnot. …

Rawles uses Nastia’s 2005 World Championships finals routine as her GOOD example of how bars should be done.

Click PLAY or watch Nastia on YouTube.

Thanks Rawles.

See the entire lengthy, interesting post: Rudimentary Routine Evaluation Made Easy: Uneven Bars Edition

Defeat Tanner Hall.

Click PLAY or study your competition on YouTube.

Hall wins seventh X Games gold

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Stumbled on to this somewhat humourous guide to women’s gymnastics for the uninitiated, penned by Rawles:

Women’s Artistic Gymnastics is performed on four apparatus. EACH ONE MORE DEADLY THAN THE LAST. …

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO WOMEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

That is the first post in a series.

Rawles does not like the new code of point, in general, because judges are so far not severe enough in B-score deductions. As one example, she cites Steliana Nistor (Romania) at the 2007 World Championships during all around finals. Here’s the BAD example:

Click PLAY or watch Nistor on YouTube.

Compare that with the GOOD example, Annia Hatch at the 2004 US National Championships on YouTube.

Judges need differentiate more on execution if the current code of points is going to work.

Rawles has many more video examples linked from: Rudimentary Routine Evaluation Made Easy: Vault Edition

Next up – BARS.

At least for one competition.

Gafuik, from the University of Calgary gymnastics club in Canada, won the All-Around at a dual meet with NCAA powerhouse Minnesota over the weekend.

It was a “friendly”. The Canadian club team was bolstered by former Gopher All-American Jake Lee. In the end, Jake was the difference.

Minnesota outscored Calgary on four of six events, but dominant performances by the Dinosaurs on pommel horse and still rings proved to be the difference as the Golden Gophers dropped their 2008 home opener, 342.800-341.800, Saturday afternoon at the Sports Pavilion. …

One Gopher that appeared to be focused like a laser beam was Cole Storer. The sophomore posted top-3 finishes on floor exercise and vault and won the high bar competition and helped Minnesota (3-5) recorded season-high team scores on all three events. …

Current Canadian all-around champion Nathan Gafuik won the all-around competition with 89.100 points and captured event wins on floor, pommel horse and vault. Lee, meanwhile, won the parallel bars and placed second on rings. …

full results – Gopher Sports

University of Calgary coach Tony Smith likes competing in the USA and brings his team south about once a year.

I’m hoping that bringing in international teams from Canada and elsewhere will help the NCAA Men’s program survive for decades to come.

I first saw Allan at the Peter Vidmar competition in 2004. First chance I went to congratulate him on his awesome gymnastics and to meet his coach.

At age-8, Allan was already amazing.

He’s now 12-years-old and still amazing, competing double back & 2 1/2 twist on FX, Magyar & Silvado on PH, Tsukahara 1 1/2 twist, Heally and double back on PB, and much more.

Great technique and artistry. Careful coaching.

Allan debuted his new routines for this season at a competition in Phoenix this weekend in preparation for Blackjack / Winter Cup coming up in Las Vegas.

His coach, Chris Sommer, is concerned about FIG rules, as are most thoughtful coaches. Chris feels there is too much reward for tumbling, vault and ring strength, not enough credit for technique of swing on PH, PB and HB.

Coach Sommer is well respected as a strength expert. He sells Xtreme rings on his Gymnastics Bodies website.

interview with Allan Bower – Gymnastics Bodies

Related posts:

gymnastics coach – Christopher Sommer

rings – training Cross

strength training – hanging V-sit and variations

Love the toe point.

Li Shanshan – 2007 Intercity Games EF

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

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Ultimate Gymnastics Inc. – Phoenix, Arizona

light and shadow – flickr – douwea

On this weekend.

Snowboard Revolution – Shaun White

We will post highlight videos of any interesting acrobatics.

official website – ESPN

Academy Award-nominated director Sofia Coppola once played a gymnast in the 1997 video for “Elektrobank” by the Chemical Brothers, which was directed by her future husband, Academy Award-nominated Spike Jonze.

One of the weirder Floor routines on YouTube:

Interview with Jones:

What did you have to bribe your girlfriend with to get her to put on a unitard and do gymnastics?

(laughs) I don’t know. She was such a good sport. Not only was she a good sport to let us put her in those clothes and let us tease her hair up, but she also was a good sport, because after half of the first day, she was so sore and tired. We made her rehearse and learn gymnastics with a gymnast, learn dance and a style of ribbonwork. ..

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