Posts Tagged ‘Gymnastics’
Gymnastics Makes Smarter Kids
Today we are pretty comfortable knowing that a child’s success is based off of good health and education. That seems like something we could all agree on, right? Right. Yet we see disturbing trends in child obesity still on the up-swing. This is particularly disturbing because obesity and lethargy go hand in hand and as…
Read MoreA comment on culture
This weekend we held our annual gymnastics meet here at Gymfinity. We had 450 gymnasts and we ran it over 25 hours in 2 days. It is a monumental task and the planning for next year started today. We have the same two goals every year: 1. to host a great event where everyone is…
Read MoreEliminate gymnastics judging and we all win
A few years back Gymnastics regrettably went to a new scoring system. The idea was to eliminate any chance that judges could sway a result by skewing scores one way or the other. Gone was the concept of the “Perfect 10” and in came scoring for difficulty and execution and the provision of confusion. Meets…
Read MoreHistory Tuesday: Uneven Bars
As far back as 1830 the French teacher Amoros wrote of “uneven” or Asymetrical” bars in his Manuel d’education physique et morale. But back then the women and the men did not participate together and women did not own the bar until long after this period. Wommen’s gymnastics was very similar to men’s gymnastics. As…
Read MoreSo glad to help
Last year was the 4th year that Gymfinity’s gymnastics team and Tumble and Trampoline team (5th for them) attended the St. Jude Benefit meet held in Peoria Illinois. The meet was a huge production with the overall goal of helping the St. Jude Children’s Hospital and St. Jude programs. Every year they had testimonials from…
Read MoreHistory Tuesday: High Bar
Last of my History lesson Tuesdays featuring men’s gymnastics. This one on my favorite events to watch but least favorite to do. I never competed High bar as a gymnast except one time in college when my team competed in Michigan at a meet held during a snow storm. The opposing team had only a…
Read MoreHistory Tuesday: Balance Beam
Balance beam is an apparatus as old as 261 years. Johan Cristoph GutsMuth (1759-1839) actually dedicated a chapter in his book Gymnastics for Youth and you can bet that the event was around before he was published. GutsMuth described the beam as a rounded pine tree trunk about 64 feet long. Founder of Gymnastics Fredrich…
Read MoreThe race is not always to the swiftest
I saw this video, its short and it’s very inspirational. Watch her run, especially at the end. Her strides are so beautiful and in context even more so. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM5A1K6TxxM] Heather Dorniden trained hard and had one outcome in mind. Her definition of victory included only one possible end. Despite her fall she never gave up.…
Read MoreHistory Tuesday: Parallel Bars
Here is another brief article about the history of gymnastics. As a kid I remember my brother getting a set of 1950 circa P-Bars from an old gym. We set them up in our back yard and I remember helping him put the rails in because they were so heavy. I remember too playing gymnastics…
Read MoreHistory Tuesday
Here is a brief article on the “history of gymnastics”. But on a larger scale, I love this stuff and I think it’s cool to look at some of the names from the past, many of the names of people are attached to skills we teach today. So this one is for you history buffs:…
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