Over the last decade, gymnastics has been transformed into a specialist’s sport – catering more and more to gymnasts with exceptional individual strengths and less and less to those with well-rounded abilities. I think it was perhaps an unintentional consequence of this trend that team competitions have taken on this “specialist” feel as well, becoming more and more like individual circus acts artificially thrown together and called something that they’re not.
Kramarenko has been one of my favorite gymnasts to watch over the last couple of years. Of course I’ve always felt bad for her since her terrible vaulting debacle in the 2007 world team finals…just as Russia was about to wrap up the bronze medal on their final event, Kramarenko baulked on her run - but touched the springboard - and was awarded a heart-breaking ZERO that dropped her Russian team to last place.
I’ve seen a couple of posts on some other gymnastics sites about this kid already (including Rick McCharles at GymnasticsCoaching.com), but I HAD to put my two cents in here because this is one of the most amazing gymnasts I’ve ever seen.
I was in my second year of medical school working out in our campus gym one day when the idea first popped into my head. I had been working out at the gym for about a year and had begun to notice that anytime I did my ab exercises, I received a lot of curious looks and comments about them. I guess since I had always done my ab exercises in a gymnastics gym my entire life, I never thought about how strange and difficult they must look to the general public
Many of you have probably heard about Jay’s and my new fitness program called GymABstics. We’re extremely excited about it, and it’s been amazing to see how the program has progressed from initially just a simple “vision” to now a full-blown comprehensive fitness program available on professional DVD’s!
Ludivine Furnon wasn’t the only entertaining French gymnast we’ve seen over the years. In fact, on the women’s side, France has actually produced some of the most creative gymnasts in history – particularly in terms of floor choreography, but certainly with some skills on the other events as we
Smooth Skills Episode 4! In today’s gymnastics world nothing is criticized more than the lack of artistry. It’s the common complaint among judges, coaches, analysts, fans, and even the athletes [...]
We launched GymABstics earlier this year as a brand new Fitness Training Program that subscribers could access through a 6-month online subscription. We've had a tremendous amount of positive feedback about the program, BUT there was one criticism that all of our subscribers made loud and clear ... they wanted the program on DVD so they could workout in front of their TV screen instead of their computer screens.
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It’s my last major push. I can’t promise you won’t ever see my code of points pop up again, but at least for now, it’s my final big experiment. I’ve already put my code to the test on women’s bars, men’s high bar, and men’s pommel horse.
It’s Kyla Ross’s breakout year. In addition to being the 2009 U.S. junior national champion and 2009 U.S. Classic champion, she can now add the title of 2009 Junior Pan American Games champion as well. We’ve seen the same string of wins many times before – all the great ones seem to burst on the scene in a similar fashion.
Our first routines under Andy’s COP: Women’s Uneven Bars So who really won the 2008 Olympic uneven bars gold medal? Let’s see what my scoring system has to say about it!