6.9 Bars difficulty

Swing Half drill on Straps Bar

One hand in a strap. The other with a Grip on the Bar.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Weiler progressions

I was coached by Heinz Weiler, brother of Willie Weiler for whom this skill is named.

It’s tricky.

I still recall trying to learn it as a forward free hip on straps bar.

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NEW Gymnastics book – Historic by Emma Webb

Emma trained at the Olga club in England, coached by Monica  & Brian Phelps.

Coach Brian Phelps was jailed in 2008, aged 64, after admitting a string of historical indecent assaults against three children aged between six and 15, in the 1970s and 1980s.

The rapist later escaped to France. Whereabouts unknown.

Emma’s e-book comes out worldwide on Sept 2nd, paperback on the 9th. 

If interested in knowing more, register interest here.

I’ve signed up.

Thanks Jess.

Jr Pan Am Games Finals 2

Beam

🥇 Charleigh Bullock, United States, 12.533
🥈 Addalye VanGrinsven, United States, 12.400
🥉 Isabel Ramos, Brazil, 12.266

Floor

🥇 Charleigh Bullock, United States, 12.500
🥈 Stella Letendre, Canada, 12.400
🥉 Dominica Escartin, Mexico, 12.266
🥉 Addalye VanGrinsven, United States, 12.266

Vault

🥇 Camilo Vera, Colombia, 13.983
🥈 William McCrea, United States, 13.800
🥉 Jensuel Soto, Puerto Rico, 13.549

P Bars

🥇 Jorman Alvarez, Colombia, 13.300
🥇 Camilo Vera, Colombia, 13.300
🥉 Aaron Ibarra, Mexico, 12.533

H Bar

🥇 Camilo Vera, Colombia, 13.800
🥈 Thomas Tittley, Canada, 12.833
🥉 Pedro Silvestre, Brazil, 12.800

Jr Pan Am Games Finals 1

Vault

🥇 Addalye VanGrinsven, United States, 13.483
🥈 Kauany Aquino, Brazil, 12.949
🥉 Coralie Demers, Canada, 12.933

Bars

🥇 Charleigh Bullock, United States, 14.000
🥈 Julieta Lucas, Argentina, 12.300
🥉 Dominica Escartin, Mexico, 12.166

Floor

🥇 Thomas Tittley, Canada, 13.200
🥈 Arturo Rossel, Chile, 12.666
🥉 Thomas Mejia, Colombia, 12.433

Pommels

🥇 Pedro Silvestre, Brazil, 12.266
🥈 Matías Martínez, Chile, 12.200
🥉Jason Hao, United States, 12.100

Rings

🥇 Lorenzo Zaragoza, Mexico, 12.600
🥈 Jensuel Soto, Puerto Rico, 12.566
🥉 Nixon Miles, United States, 12.033

former Chow’s Gymnastics coach arrested

… young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions.

Liang “Chow” Qiao, the owner of Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, thought highly enough of his new hire, Sean Gardner, to put him in charge of the club’s premier junior event and to coach some of its most promising girls. …

Last week, more than three years after being suspended from coaching, the FBI arrested Gardner, 38, on a federal child sexual abuse images charge. But his disciplinary case has still not been resolved by SafeSport, which handles sex-abuse cases in Olympic sports.

Guardian