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Happy Christmahannukwanzahumanewtonaliasolstivus to all! Got exciting plans? Receive cool presents? Have fun family holiday traditions? Tell us all about them! As always, my dad's side of the family will be getting together to celebrate. Traditional celebrations include a gift exchange...

Anybody else hear an angelic chorus singing "hallelujah" when looking at this image, or is it just me? Arms vertical, feet behind CoM and pushing the floor back, hips extended and pushed forward, chest rising towards the ceiling, full extension through knees and toes. Textbook perfect takeoff.

I threw these together while discussing progressions with some other coaches, thought I'd share here as well. Any feedback is welcome, and feel free to use/modify these as you see fit (so long as you credit me where appropriate).

Apparently gymnastics is the Hotel California: I can check out, but I can never leave. This fall, I'll be returning to Rebounders to coach once a week on Saturdays, just to scratch that itch. Also, today I hopped on a trampoline for the first time since the start of the pandemic, and while the...

Anybody else playing this yet? I almost always buy new Zelda games the day they come out and binge them; in this case, I probably won't be able to pick it up until wednesday afternoon. Everything I've seen and heard about it sounds amazing, though

Anybody else watching the show? I loved the first game, have mixed opinions about the second, and am LOVING the show so far.

Anybody else going? I'll be there Saturday and Sunday. Haven't picked a costume yet; that will probably be a last minute decision based on the weather.

To what extent do you think coaches are responsible for setting a positive example off the clock? I was recently out shopping, picked up a bottle of whiskey, and ran into a former student on my way out of the liquor store; my immediate reflex was to hide the whiskey so she wouldn't see me with...

Launch is scheduled for 7:20am EST tomorrow! I'll be watching the livestream with my wife and her parents. I've been looking forward to this for 10 years, and now it's finally actually happening! Anybody else excited for this?

Happy holidays to all! Wishing everybody the best for your holidays of choice! Do you have any cool holiday traditions? Have any fun plans? Get any cool gifts? Tell us all about it here! There are three holidays that I observe in December. The first is Hanukah (which has already concluded this...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/audacity-free-collect-personal-data-russia-b1878305.html I know a lot of coaches use audacity to edit routine music. Unfortunately, that's no longer safe. It's a shame, but the safest thing would be to switch to a different software...

NOTE: I've moved a bunch of posts from other threads into this one to try to keep other threads on topic while still allowing a place for this discussion to continue. But let the records show that most of these posts were pulled from another thread, that this thread was started by me after the...

So one of my proudest coaching moments came this summer, after I'd already retired from coaching. But first, a bit of backstory: Years back, one of my boys team members took a real interest in the physics of gymnastics. It started off with just a few questions about my descriptions of how the...

Here's my second blog entry, and the first of a multi-part series about the physics of gymnastics! https://chalkbucket.com/technique-with-taucer-the-physics-of-gymnastics-part-1/ In this article, I described several at-home physics experiments; let me know if my descriptions aren't clear, and...

Confirming that this isn't just a mess-around-in-prqctice skill. Simone looks like she's actually gonna compete the Yurchenko Double Pike!

Nick Klessing appears poised to have this vault named after him: A bit of trivia regarding this vault: while it has not been done internationally before, it was done by one gymnast in the USA back in 2009, at Whitlow and also National Qualifiers. That gymnast who first performed it was.... me:

Gymnastics just keeps getting crazier

So as part of the new chalk bucket, I'm going to be writing a regular(ish) column, the primary goal of which will be to answer technical questions in a way that is accessible to people who aren't technical experts. I want to make the sport more understandable to parents, fans, and other people...