street Gymnastics

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Photographer Albert Dessi.

Mary Korlin Downs – Beam

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train landings train landings train landings

Landings are incredibly important in NCAA competition. Yet College girls are not very good at them. 😕

Almost any male gymnast is more skilled at bringing impact forces to zero than almost any female gymnast. Male gymnasts work seriously on landings.

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Click PLAY or watch U.S. guys working landings on instagram.

Yes. Part of the problem in WAG is judging expectations. We need to educate judges to the biomechanically, physiologically BEST and SAFEST techniques of landing.

Doris (Fuchs) Brause interview

Doris competed the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. Was a traveling alternate for 1964 and an alternate in 1968.

Her sister Inge was also an international gymnast.

Click PLAY or watch a 2012 interview on YouTube.

‘shaping’ for layout backward

Backward “gainer” drills are great for many reasons. Including the hip action on takeoff and shape for a hollow layout.

Chellsie Memmell, by coincidence, is an ideal model at the beginning of this video tutorial.

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introducing forward twisting

I always start beginners from forward piked salto. As does trampoline coaching legend George Hery.

This way they get a foundation of “late twisting”. And it helps avoid the dread Barani Confusion.

Click PLAY or watch Forward Twisting Flips – George Hery on Tom’s GymSmarts blog.