preventing Grip Lock on Horizontal Bar

Vinnie Silber posted some good advice on how to prevent grip lock.

___ Repost of my advice from 2018:

Most male gymnasts are well aware of the terrible injury that can occur if leather touches leather around the Bar. If there’s any chance at all that the grips have stretched that much, they must be replaced.

Are your grips ready for the pearly gates?

I like the title of that article by Ten-O Gymnastics.

Mark Van Wyk had his gymnasts toss their old grips until they got hung up on the rafters of the Gym. Grip Heaven, they called it.

related – Human Kinetics – Grip Lock: A Unique Mechanism of Injury in Gymnastics

griplock

It happens on women’s Bars too, but very rarely.

… March Madness Gymnastics brackets?

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Rebeca Andrade’s 6.3 Bars

Not much to deduct.

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Eaker, Allaire-Bourgie light up L’INTERNATIONAL GYMNIX

If you missed the meet this past weekend, Blythe Lawrence has you covered. Read her highlights from the competition on Rocker Gymnastics:

EAKER, ALLAIRE-BOURGIE LIGHT UP L’INTERNATIONAL GYMNIX

Click PLAY or watch Kara Eaker on YouTube.

6.6 + 7.867 = 14.466

FIG Parkour Age Group Programme under development

FIG:

With the adoption of the new discipline of Parkour by the FIG Congress in December 2018, it became necessary to develop coach education programmes also for this discipline. …

The Parkour specialists that were invited to be members of the working group were Charles Perrière of France, the President of the FIG Parkour Commission, FIG Athletes’ Representative Micaela Buono Pugh of Argentina and Francisco de la Riva Vasquez of Belgium. …

It was an extraordinarily interesting meeting about a sport, many of whose participants believe in the values that Parkour should be discovered and cannot be taught and that the activity should not be competition oriented. But with the expectation that this will be an Olympic sport in 2024, things will change dramatically as athletes will most certainly be specifically trained from a young age.

The challenge was to find a solution that provides structure yet has ample room for freedom, innovation, discovery and creativity. The structure is necessary to assure the safe, healthy, gradual and systematic development of athletes towards future high-performance excellence. …

Firsts for FIG coach education activities in February 2019

If FIG is going to run obstacle course competitions, obviously they need offer coach education.

Gymnix Jr Cup finals

Vault
1. Skye Blakely, United States, 14.083
2. Olivia Greaves, United States, 13.483
3. Rachael Riley, Canada, 13.433

Bars
1. Skye Blakely, United States, 14.133
2. Zoé Allaire-Bourgie, Canada, 14.066
3. Noémie Louon, Belgium, 13.466

Beam
1. Noémie Louon, Belgium, 13.200
2. Zoé Allaire-Bourgie, Canada, 13.100
3. Lilly Lippeatt, United States, 13.066

Floor
1. Zoé Allaire-Bourgie, Canada, 13.233
2. Olivia Greaves, United States, 13.133
3. Noémie Louon, Belgium, 12.966

Belgium was the big happy surprise of the weekend for me.

Russian apparatus finals – day 2

Beam
1. Angelina Simakova 13.900
2. Angelina Melnikova 13.500
3. Ksenia Klimenko 13.166

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Floor
1. Angelina Melnikova 13.600
2. Lilia Akhimova 13.233
3. Aliya Mustafina 13.133

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https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1104722306402791426