GYMNASTICS SEMINAR 2010

The Malaysia Gymnastics Fedration with the cooperatipn of the National Sports Council Malaysia held its first Seminar, Entitled - Past, Present and Future of Gymnastics in Malaysia on the 24 - 25 October at the Auditorium 1, National Sports Council Malaysia.
The invited speaker was Mr Gao Jian, Consultant from the Federation International Gymnastics.

The steps taken by the MGF and the NSC is timely looking at the standard of Gymnastics, especially Artistic Gymnastics which is in a state of vaccum. We may have to wait for another 10 years or 10,000 hours of training and deliberate practice to develope a High Performance athlete before we can be at the International Arena again.

The existing system needs to change to evolve.

" The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

“Developing Olympic Champions is like training doctors, it’s expensive, takes time and needs real expertise.”

I hope all those attending the Seminar will come up with a concrete solution to help Malaysia regain her pride in this sport.

GYMNASTICS ARTISTIC RESULTS

Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Gymnastics(Artistic) for Mens Events

Australia ( AUS )
England (ENG )

Canada ( CAN )

Individual all-around

Luke Folwell (ENG)
Reiss Beckford (ENG)
Joshua Jefferis (AUS)

Floor

Thomas Pichler (AUS)
Reiss Beckford (ENG)
Ashish Kumar (IND)

Pommel Horse

Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS)
Max Whitlock (ENG)
Jonathan Chan Thuang Tong (SIN)

Rings

Samuel Offord (AUS)
Luke Folwell (ENG)
Herodotos Giorgallas (CYP)

Vault

Luke Folwell (ENG)
Ashish Kumar (IND)
Ian Galvan (CAN)

Parallel Bars

Joshua Jefferis (AUS)
Luke Folwell (ENG)
Prashanth Sellathurai (v)

Horizontal Bar

Dimitris Krasias (CYP)
Anderson Loran (CAN)
Max Whitlock (ENG)

XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Gymnastics(Artistic) for Womens Events

Team

Australia (AUS)

England (ENG)

Canada (CAN)

Individual all-around

Lauren Mitchell (AUS)
Emily Little (AUS)
Georgia Bonora (AUS)

Vault

Imogen Cairns (ENG)
Jennifer Mbali Khwela (RSA)
Gabby May (CAN)

Uneven Bars

Lauren Mitchell (AUS)
Georgia Bonora (AUS)
Cynthia Lemieux-Guillemette (CAN)

Floor

Imogen Cairns (ENG)
Lauren Mitchell (AUS)
Ashleigh Brennan (AUS)

Balance Beam

Lauren Mitchell (AUS)
Heem Wee (SIN)
Cynthia Lemieux-Guillemette (CAN) Imogen Cairns (ENG)

NSC/MGF CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM NATONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

The championship held on the 8 till 10 October 2010 at Gymnasium III, National Sports Council Malaysia, attracted more than 160 MAG and WAG gymnastts from most of the states in Malaysia.

The first day results:

MAG Level I

Champion - Sarawak; 469.400 points

Runners-up - Perak ; 451.850 points

Third - Terengganu ; 447.450 points

MAG Level II

Champion - Edugym ; 447.250 points

Runners up - Terengganu; 434.300 points

Third - Perak ; 409.650 points

WAG Level I

Champion - Perak ; 294.150 points

Runners-up - Edugym ; 284.76 points

Third - Kedah ; 262.260 points

WAG Level II

Champion - Sarawak ; 300.000 points

Runners-up - Edugym ; 280.100 points

Wishing all the gymnasts the best of luck.

New Delhi - Commonwealth Games 2010

Date : 4 - 8 October 2010

Place: Indra Ghandi Indoor Stadium

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MAG: 5 gymnasts

WAG: 5 gymnasts

RG: 3 gymnasts

Medals Male - 8 G 8 S 8 B

Medals Female - 12G 12S 12 B

We hope Malaysia will be successful at this Games.

Best of Luck and Happy Gymnastics.

Go Find Out

I read this the other day:

“….as we know there are known knowns ; the things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld may well have known what he was talking about, however we can apply this piece of political frippery to life in the gym. There are things about coaching which we know, or think we know, but if those things which we know, we only know because someone else told us, whom we assumed knew what they knew, but in actual fact didn’t know, but assumed as well. Then the things we think we know suddenly becomes things we don’t know. Furthermore there are also things we think we know but have never checked. So in addition to the things we thought we knew that we don’t actually know there are those things which we know we don’t know but haven’t bothered to find out and the things we don’t know that we don’t know…

So, what is the answer ?

I don’t know, go find out.

If you followed that little piece of nonsense, then you might ask “ How can you know which are the things you don’t know you don’t know ?’ You might as well ask “How can I know the right questions to ask when I don’t know which answers I need ?”

Once again, go and find out. The more you read the more questions you ask, the more chance you have of getting the answers you need and not the ones you want.

A large array of coaching resources are available from some Gymnastics Associations, but they aren’t there to hold your hand. There is a whole world of information out there and once you start to access it you begin to realize how much you still have to learn, but you also start to find the questions to ask.

The internet is has hundreds of sites dedicated to sport sciences, gymnastics and other related activities. Here are some –

www.pponline.co.uk
www.sportsci.org
www.brianmac.demon.co.uk

Richard Reuther of Oppau

The greatest influnce of modern gymnastics is Richard Reuther the German of Oppau. born in 1909. The world will thank him and his friend Rudi Spieth manufacturer for today's efficient gymnastics apparatrus.

Perhaps the most appreciated was the springboard which was introduced in 1950. He has been concerned with his horizontal bar dsign as early as 1930, but only succeded after World War II with pre-tensioning.

He was a quiet , friendly gymnastwho also knew much about training. and taking care og gymnasts.His clun Turnerbund Oppau was German team champion several times.

He was always a good " gymnastics brother" as the term has been used in German Gymnastics since Friedrich Ludwig Jahn whenever you address a freind.

Brother in Gymnastics.

Tsukahara Vault - 1969

The Tsukahara Vault was performed by Mitso Tsukahara of Japan during the World Championshops in Lybjuana, Yugoslavia. Mr Tsukahara vaulted the piked version to become the World Vault Champion.

His vault now makes up one of the three main families of vaults and some say it's the most versatile. For many years it had come to a standstill with the double and full twisting

Kasamatsu version.

Technical preparation Tsukahara Vault
( Persediaan dari segi teknik – Lombol Tsukahara )

Illustration by Roland Carrasco

Happy Gymnastics