Lorraine Currie of Futures Gymnastics in Canada has organized an interesting event — an online Gymnastics Congress.
The theme …
Resilience 2020
Five days – May 11-15, 2020.
Cost is low:
$15 for any one stream: Business, Competitive, Recreational
$25 all access.
Proceeds going towards COVID-19 vaccine research at University of Pittsburgh and Sunnybrook Hospital.
Many big name presenters whom I’d love to hear. This is a COVID-19 alternative for coaches who normally book themselves for one of the annual Congress events.
On March 22, Toluwalase Asolo, a 20-year-old business management student at the University of Hull, tweeted a clip with the caption, “The boredom jumped out.”
To the song of “Don’t Rush” by U.K. rap duo Young T and Bugsey, she and her seven girlfriends changed looks seamlessly while passing around a makeup brush used as a metaphorical baton. …
Gymnastics stars pass on medals and clothing in this awesome version.
IMHO – Inbars should be valued same as Stalder, Endo.
It’s not a skill we should be encouraging.
Growing up in western Canada we never called piked Endo or piked Stalder ‘Inbars‘.
Most often we called them stooped Stalder, stooped Endo.
Sometimes Stalder piked, Endo piked.
The WAG Code currently calls them Clear Pike Circles. That’s better than Inbars, in my opinion.
These swings are a problem for WAG in 2020 for several reasons:
risk of lower back injury due to force of compression at the bottom
deduction for flexed feet getting into and out of the swing
deduction for lack of hip flexion
difficulty in getting back to handstand
They aren’t a problem for MAG and haven’t been since the men’s Code devalued to same as regular Stalder / Endo. We no longer see them in MAG competition.
But there was fugly era when MANY male gymnasts competed them for difficulty. Very few men had the genetic limb length and physical ability to do them well. It was painful to watch.
I coached only one who trained them, Davide Bardana. He’s also the best I can recall.
Kyle Shewfelt, years later at the same club, competed them as cleanly as any male gymnast of the day.
Click PLAY or watch Kyle on YouTube. Pirouette angle deductions weren’t as important in that Code as they are today.
A huge bounce back after not qualifying for 2019 Nationals.
But rather than being bitter about the COVID-19 season being cut short, they send thanks to everyone flattening the curve, reducing deaths and bringing back the economy as quickly as safely possible.
