Thanks — once again — to Luba who translates foreign news stories for us.
Click through to gymnovosti to watch Artur conditioning.
super high regrasp on Bhavsar
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Mykayla Skinner wears tape grips
UNDER her Bailey Velcro grips.
Expensive, slow and complicated. But it seems to work for her.
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related – I recommend Bailey single buckle grips for most gymnasts.
Simone tries a Handstand Challenge
Tak 1/1 to handstand
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Beam routine at home
For a Legends of Lockdown online competition, Josh Kronfeld reenacted a Beam routine.
… and the crowd went wild.
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Attention Canadian coaches
There are some opportunities online right now:
E-Learning and Professional Development Opportunities:
During this time, it is a great opportunity to seek other professional development learning opportunities.The CAC Safe Sport Module was made available on April 6, 2020. The module is free of charge, takes about 90 minutes to complete, and you will receive 2 Professional Development points. You can start and stop the training at your convenience. …. You can access this module at coach.ca.
Sport for Life is also providing e-Learning discounts for two modules:
“Introduction to Long-Term Development in Sport & Physical Activity” &
“Introduction to Physical Literacy”. Sport for Life is offering both courses for $9.98, discounted from $24.95. Coaches who complete these courses will receive a certificate of completion and CAC Professional Development points.
Forward roll, pancake flip challenge
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Could the 2020 Olympics be cancelled?
On GymCastic #419 Spencer said he predicts the 2020 Olympics will be cancelled if the announced dates in 2021 are not possible.
That rings true to me.
The additional cost of the current postponement is billion$.
I doubt those paying the extra would be willing to do it yet again.
“I don’t think anyone would be able to say if it is going to be possible to get it under control by next July or not,” Tokyo organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said, speaking through an interpreter at a news conference conducted remotely.
”We’re certainly are not in a position to give you a clear answer.”
NCAA gymnasts are under compensated
On GymCastic #419 Jessica interviewed sports economist Dr. David Berri from Southern Utah University, the Flippin’ Birds.
It’s been by far the best insight into the business of American College Sports I’ve ever encountered.
Gymnasts are under compensated for their contribution. Top College coaches overpaid for what they bring to the University.
I highly recommend you listen to that episode. The interview is late in the podcast.
Berri has spent the last two decades researching sports and economics, while publishing works on a variety of topics including the evaluation of players and coaches, competitive balance, the drafting of players, labor disputes, the NCAA, and gender issues in sports.
Dr. Berri was the lead author of “The Wages of Wins and Stumbling on Wins” and recently published “Sports Economics“, a textbook from Macmillan Publishers.
In the past, he has written on the subject of sports economics for a number of popular media outlets, including the New York Times, the Atlantic.com, Time.com, and Vice Sports. Currently, Dr. Berri is writing for Forbes.com.
