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    NCAA It's nationals week!

    It was a good fight in that last rotation between OU and LSU. All of the teams had some imprecisions/mistakes, so it was interesting. I had no special favorite in this final, so I had some fun 😁.
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    NCAA It's nationals week!

    The semis were interesting with Georgia pushing LSU until the last minute. Nice showing from them, the future looks good. Then Minnesota pushing UCLA from the beginning and going through. UCLA had that disastrous vault rotation, one more decent vault and they could have sneaked in despite not...
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    NCAA It's nationals week!

    Based on regionals, the ones that looked the most on were Florida and Oklahoma, so we'll see. Very excited about it.
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    Coaches What do you get paid for as a coach outside of taking classes?

    I get paid for the hours I coach, te setting/tidying up,... is included in those hours. If we need equipment we usually asks and the gym buys it, but sometimes I've bought some small things like bands/weights/... Coreography is paid for the hours, too. I have to say that's in a country where...
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    Women Bars Scoring

    I'm not that familiar with the DP code but maybe the low cast on HB might have been a significant deduction too.
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    Coaches position of free leg in turns.

    I'm guessing it is a position where you have one leg straight and the other one bent, with both knees being more or less together and the foot of the bent leg back up towards the bottom.
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    Women Straddle or hollow body past low bar

    As a judge, I think you can pike just to pass the bar without a deduction. IIR is an acceptable technique. You couldn't pike from the beginning, that could be a deduction, but if you start fine in a straight, the. hollow, then pike just get pass the bar it is ok.
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    Women Straddle or hollow body past low bar

    I think at that height in regular FIG settings (I know in the US you can set the bars differently, we can't so I don't know with other settings) you can either pike or straddle. I don't think you could do it just in hollow. In fact, my gymnasts that are a little shorter, but around 1,55/1,60...
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    Coaches New littles on team

    Positive praise to those doing the desired thing. So, one starts rolling out, so just in that moment say, "Oh look at X, what a beautiful shape she's doing". That usually works amazingly well. If some of them is specially not working just have them go out, sit out until they are ready to work...
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    Women Switching from tsuks to yurchenkos

    I find that most female gymnasts get more power from yurchenkos than tsukaharas. I think if your technique is good for the yurchenko it's not hard to learn as you already have the second part of the vault.
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    Women life after gym

    New hobby: coaching gymnastics 😁. My retirement wasn't really something abrupt, it was very progressive. I injured my knee, so I stopped competing and I was still training but I couldn't do a lot of things, so I started to spend more time helping train the other gymnasts (I was already starting...
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    Women Strap bars with gloves too slippery?

    I think it is a common feeling, most of my gymnasts feel slippery at the beginning but with time they start to feel more comfortable. I'd try to work on it for some time and see if it gets better,
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    Coaches Should USAG have standardized technical training?

    In my country coaches have to pass coaching courses where those kind of topics are more or less covered, also you are taught some fundamental progressions for the basic skills, physical preparation,... Still at the gyms some older gymnasts or staff that helps with beginner rec and the like have...
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    Parents Cheap meals for gymnasts

    Oh, that's a shame. Maybe you can cut it by parts (you can look it up in YouTube) and make either a soup or freeze some and cook it individual portions in the air fryer. In my country we also have some "soup mix" where you have different cuts of meat (some beef, chicken, pork+bones+some veggies...
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    Parents Cheap meals for gymnasts

    In my country pork and some beef cuts (the ones used for stews) are usually cheap (compared to the rest of meat). Also a full chicken that you can roast and eat for several days is a good option (for one person probably is enough protein for at least 5 meals ) Cottage cheese if you have that...
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