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Aubree Rosa

December 16, 2012, 12:11am

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#6 Top 10 Perfect 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season

PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #6 LANDING MECHANICS: Proper jump and landing mechanics are imperative to ensure normal loading of the joints and tissue. It is important to note the athlete lands with a straight back, hips square, hip in line with the knee, knee line with the 2nd toes, hips slightly flexed, and the knees bent falling over the midfoot not past the toes as seen in picture bellow. This is easily trained during your normal stick drills, as war...

#7 Top 10 Perfect 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season

PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT #7 LOADING MECHANICS UPPER BODY: Proper loading mechanics are imperative to ensure normal loading of the joints and tissue. It is important to note the athlete loads the wrist with the fingers facing forward, maintaining the arches of the hand, the antecubital fossa ("smiley face") points inward as if "kissing each other", elbows are straight but not locked out and shoulder blades are cinched up to the rib cage (no winging) as seen in figure 11. Figure 12 sho...

#8 Top 10: PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season

PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy #8) RECOVERY: Always finish a workout with light cardiovascular or callisthenic cool down 5-10 minutes. Within 30 minutes of completion of workout make sure to get in a recovery meal or shake with balance of protein, fat, and antioxidants. A simple portable recovery drink perfect for the picky young athlete is a portable chocolate milk. For the exact recommended recovery drink use the below formulas: Calories= 1.45 kcal x weight ...

#9 Top 10 PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season

PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy # 9) MENTAL TOUGHNESS: Keeping mentally focused is the key to every athletes success. The old sane “Gymnastics is 90% mental and 10% skill” is very true. Here are a few mental toughness tips: 1)Keep a goal list on the mirror, refrigerator, in school folders, or lots of places to have a consistent reminder o their goals. 2) With your goal list place inspirational quotes (ie “I can…I will… I am&rdquo...

Top 10 PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season

PERFECT 10.0 Tips to Keep Your Optional Healthy This Season By Brandi Smith- Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy 10) SLEEP: LOTS OF GOOD SLEEP Sleep is necessary for the mind and body to heal and recover. Carve out down time for your athlete before bed time so they can begin to shut down. Find something mindless for your athlete to do to shut off all of their mental monkeys and fast pace life. For some athletes this may be watching a cartoon, for others reading a fun book, for some it may be crotchet, and others it may be just listening to...

Santa List: Top 5 Gifts for Every Gymnastics Facility

Santa’s List: Top 5 Gifts for Every Gymnastics Facility By Brandi Smith-Young, PT Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy 5) Stationary Bike                                                                                                       Every gym needs a stationary bike. Gymnast put 5-14 tim...

Routines and Skills

Routines and Skills

Saxon Reaux

December 5, 2012, 4:15pm

Skills and routines working on..   Current Competition Routines Vault: Front handspring full and a half Bars: Beam: Front aerial two feet to back handspring, full turn, switch leap straddle quarter, side sumi, pike jump split full, and front full and half twist dismount Floor: round off back handspring two and a half, front hand spring full layout, and round off back handspring double twist. Switch ring tour jete full, full and half turn, and wolf full to popa Skills I Have   Vault: yurchenko tuck (kinda) Bars: giant giant toe on fron...

Analyzing the Women's NCAA Preseason Rankings

The 2013 NCAA women's gymnastics preseason coaches poll came out on Monday with the back-to-back National Champions, the University of Alabama, picked for #1 yet again.  However, let's take a closer look at the teams who cracked the top eight and who you should keep your eye on from each of these teams.  #1 Alabama  2012 NCAA Championships finish: 1st place Marissa Gutierrez, Diandra Milliner, Ashley Priess, and Geralen Stack-Eaton with their 2012 Individual trophies. The Tide put a stop to the Gator's journey to their first Nat...

FINDING YOUR VOICE: The most powerful tool in creating a strong college gymnastics team!

One of the greatest gifts a gymnast can receive while attending college is her “voice”. Voice is defined as an instrument or medium of expression; wish, choice or opinion openly or formally expressed. Many gymnasts head off to college and have never learned how to share their feelings, emotions or opinions. Why does this happen? Think of the hours most Level 10 and Elite gymnasts have spent in their gyms. The sport itself is made for girls who are goal oriented. They quietly go about doing every assignment each day. Coaches tend to ...

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Senior Night For the OU Men

Senior Night For the OU Men

Whiney Ewing

March 13, 2012, 10:38pm

Three seniors will be honored Saturday, March 17 during Oklahoma's last regular season home meet. Oklahoma will be taking on Nebraska and the Air Force at 7 pm in McCasland Fieldhouse. The senior athletes include Chad Crumley, Mike Heredia, and Patirck Piscitelli. Crumley competes on high bar and floor. With career highs of 13.600 on high bar and 14.150 on floor. Hereida comeptes on vault and floor. Posting career highs of 14.850 on floor and 15.750 on vault. Piscitelli competes on floor, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar. He has ...

Husqvarna Chainsaws – Importance of Industrial Coatings

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Role of Industrial Lubricants -Reach Forklift and Pintle Hook

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BOTH Defending National Champions Traveling to Norman

This Friday and Saturday will be huge meets for both the men's and women's gymnastics teams at the University of Oklahoma. Friday night at 7 at the Lloyd Noble Center the number 2 ranked Sooner women will be facing reigning champions, Alabama. The meet will be the Sooners last regular home meet of the season and the senior athletes will be honored. Saturday night, the top-ranked Oklahoma men will face defending champions, Stanford at the McCasland Fieldhouse. This meet will be the Sooners second home meet of the season and will begin at 7 pm. Y...

Reach Forklift and Clark Forklift – Industrial Lubricants Improves Productivity

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Side Loader and Industrial Forklift – Need for Maintenance Process

Industrial machines like side loader , metal cut off saw, komatsu forklifts, etc. require regular maintenance process for smooth functioning. Let us learn how maintenance process is beneficial to make effective use of machines. Invention and introduction of industrial machinery like side loader, metal cut off saw, komatsu forklifts, industrial forklift , high reach forklift, etc. has brought a huge relief to the industries. Technological advancement has led to several modifications, which were not possible, before some years ago. With various ...

Online Purchasing Of Mini Forklift and Industrial Forklift

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Drill Mill and Bed Mill – Selling Used Machines Online

You can consider online auctions to sell industrial machines like gas cutting equipment , oxy profile cutter, turret milling machine, etc. Industries make use of machinery like gas cutting equipment, profile cutter, turret milling machine , drill mill, milling rotary table, etc. and other useful equipment to facilitate industry operations. In routine industrial activities, workers require particular machines, which ease their workload and offer convenience. In industries, machines prove very useful for workers to carry out various difficult ta...

Sandblast Pot – Why Machine Guards are Important?

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