gymn
Digest
Thu, 21 Jul 94 Volume 2 :
Issue 152
Today's Topics:
ADMIN: indexing anyone?
Goodwill Games
Goodwill Games "home page" (6 msgs)
Goodwill Games "home page"/ gymn
"home page" (2 msgs)
gymn intro (2 msgs)
Gymn Poll #3 - results (2 msgs)
Gymn Pub
Nationals
small question...
Streching and Flexabilty
This
is a digest of the gymn@athena.mit.edu mailing list.
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Date:
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 19:52:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: <***@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject:
ADMIN: indexing anyone?
Hey everyone,
I just received an
offer from "Yabbo" to help with indexing
our
digests.
I remember someone emailed me months ago also offering to
help, but I've lost that name. Whoever you are, if you're still
interested, can you email me again?
Also, if you
haven't emailed me but might like to help with indexing,
feel
free to throw yourself at my mercy.
A very general description
of what this
entails:
1. Determining major categories to group items. (Gymnasts,
Competitions, Rules, etc)
2. Then, reading the digests and indexing the
msgs.
This of course doesn't have to be done
all at once. Or, even, if
you'd like to just do five digests for Gymn
or something like that,
we'd love you to death...
and then some! Imagine that.
Rachele
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Date:
Wed, 20 Jul 94 14:21:00 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Goodwill
Games
Foudn this on rec.sport.olympics
and though I have little concept of exactly
what
it means (if anyone cares to explain feel free) I gather that others
here may so...
>The 1994 Goodwill Games home
page is now available.
http://www.com/goodwill/index.html
Enjoy!<
Susan
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Date:
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 14:57:01 +0600
From: ***@scoter.cdev.com
Subject:
Goodwill Games "home page"
> Found this on rec.sport.olympics and though I have little concept of
exactly
> what it means (if anyone cares to
explain feel free) I gather that others
> here
may so...
>
> >The 1994 Goodwill Games home page is now
available.
>
> http://www.com/goodwill/index.html
This
cryptic specification is for a file of commands that is
provided
on a World Wide Web server site and interpreted by a WWW client
program. A popular client program is Mosaic, developed by
the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the
University of Illinois. They have versions of Mosaic for
Unix
workstations, the Macintosh, and PC's
running Microsoft
Windows. If your workstation/pc/whatever is directly
plugged into the
Internet, you should be able to run Mosaic. But if you
connect via
telephone and modem, and you're using
a plain terminal program like
Procomm, you're out
of luck. The Mosaic programs are available on the
anonymous
FTP site: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
A
"home page" is a jumping-off point that someone makes available
for providing text, pictures, sound, or whatever about
whatever.
The number of companies, organizations, and individuals that
are
providing World Wide Web servers is growing
very fast. For example,
here are the home pages
that I've saved in my Mosaic "hot list" of
semi-frequently
visited sites:
http://www.sun.com:80/sunergy/home_page.html
Tue Jun 14 12:38:11 1994
Sunergy Home Page
http://www.austin.ibm.com/
Wed Jun 15 08:40:59 1994
IBM RISC System/6000 Products & Services
http://ftp.cdrom.com:80/ Wed Jun 15 08:51:12 1994
Walnut Creek CDROM
http://wired.com:80/ Wed Jun 15 11:30:23 1994
WIRED Magazine's Rest Stop
on the Infobahn
http://www.qdeck.com/ Thu Jun 16 14:02:38 1994
Quarterdeck
home page
http://www.ibm.com/ Fri Jun 17 15:58:22 1994
IBM
http://freenet.victoria.bc.ca/vifa.html
Fri Jul 1
08:53:29 1994
Victoria Free-Net Home Page
http://www.com/goodwill/index.html
Wed Jul 20 13:38:09 1994
GOODWILL GAMES
I just fired up Mosaic on
my Sun and looked at the Goodwill Games home
page.
It's pretty bare, but it says that there will be
more
stuff added when the competitions start. But they do have
a small advert for a sweatshirt! :)
--John
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Date:
Thu, 21 Jul 94 10:01:21 BST
From: ***@axion.bt.co.uk
Subject: Goodwill
Games "home page"
>If your workstation/pc/whatever is
directly plugged into the
>Internet, you should be able to run Mosaic.
But if
you connect via
>telephone
and modem, and you're using a plain
terminal
program like
>Procomm, you're out of luck. The
Mosaic programs are
available on the
>anonymous FTP site:
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
Isnt there also a Microsoft Windows version of Mosaic
which you can use
available
from the same site.
One of the good things about WWW is you can use
gopher and ftp,
so you can connect to a site and
ftp any files you want back
just as you would with
ftp but with WWW you get a flashy
(depending on
how the site is set up of course) menu system
to
traverse through.
>The number of companies, organizations, and
individuals that are
>providing
World Wide Web servers is growing very fast.
The list of known servers
is enourmous, there are of course
loads more which arent known about
things like personal
home pages that kind of thing
but the list does expand
almost every day.
By
the way I was under the impression someone somewhere
was
at work on a homepage for Gymn then again maybe I
was
mistaken
Clive
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Date:
Thu, 21 Jul 94 08:15 EDT
From: <***@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject:
Goodwill Games "home page"
>
>Internet, you should
be able to run Mosaic. But if you connect via
>telephone
and modem, and you're using a plain terminal program like
>Procomm, you're out of luck. The Mosaic programs are
available on the
>
More specifically, it's the "plain terminal
program" here that's the
key. In order to use Mosaic (or any other
network program such as
Gopher, Telnet, FTP, etc.) it's
necessary to have a communications
program which
employs the "TCP/IP" protocol.
A number of such programs
exist and can
connect to the Internet via SLIP (Serial Line Internet
Protocol)
or PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol).
Once obtaining a program
capable of doing SLIP or PPP, however, the
problem
of finding a host to accept the connection is non-trivial at
this time. That
problem will soon go away as commercial companies
(cable
TV, telephone, specialized?) start offering
connections. At a
cost, of course.
One more current caveat: Attempting to use Mosaic with a 2400
baud, or
slower, modem is downright painful. Anyone buying a modem nowadays
should get a high speed (9600 or faster) modem.
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Date:
Thu, 21 Jul 1994 07:20:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: <***@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject:
Goodwill Games "home page"
| By the way I was under the
impression someone somewhere
| was at work on a
homepage for Gymn then again maybe I was
| mistaken
I believe I remember someone mentioning on
this list that they were
thinking of doing one for
gymnastics. However, this homepage
is not
connected with Gymn
in any way. If it does get
established, it'll be
similar to the gif archives
of gymnastics photos in Kentucky: an
electronic
gymnastics resource that undoubtably a lot of Gymn members
use, but not an
actual part of Gymn.
(I just felt the itch
to clarify that. And, for
further
clarification, as of right now, "Gymn" includes the mailing list for
discussion and also our archives on ftp.cac.psu.edu, but
that's it.)
Btw, I think that the Kentucky gif site has somehow
disappeared...
Rachele
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Date:
Thu, 21 Jul 1994 10:56:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: <***@gateway.us.sidwell.edu>
Subject:
Goodwill Games "home page"
> More specifically, it's
the "plain terminal program" here that's the
> key. In order to
use Mosaic (or any other network program such as
> Gopher, Telnet, FTP,
etc.) it's necessary to have a communications
>
program which employs the "TCP/IP"
protocol. A number of such
programs
> exist and can connect to the
Internet via SLIP (Serial Line Internet
> Protocol) or PPP
(Point-to-Point Protocol).
>
> Once obtaining a program capable
of doing SLIP or PPP, however, the
> problem of
finding a host to accept the connection is non-trivial at
> this time. That
problem will soon go away as commercial companies
> (cable
TV, telephone, specialized?) start offering
connections. At a
> cost, of course.
>
> One more current
caveat: Attempting to use Mosaic
with a 2400 baud, or
> slower, modem is
downright painful. Anyone buying a
modem nowadays
> should get a high speed (9600
or faster) modem.
One solution to this, if you have dialup unix access, is to use Lynx,which
is a vt100 text equivilant of Mosaic or Cello. It dosn't do
images
(obviously), but handles all the hypertext
features fine. You can also
have it download the images so you can look at them. I use lynx whenever
I'm on a dumb
term, and Mosaic every time I'm in Windows or XWindows,
and
I get along fine. Lynx runs
pretty quickly - a lot of the slowness of
Mosaic is that it automatically
grabs all the images, and while they are
pretty,
you can get by by just getting images on demand
(there is a toggle
in Mosaic to do this
also).
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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994
13:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: ***@netcom.com
Subject: Goodwill Games
"home page"
> >Internet, you should be able to run
Mosaic. But if you connect via
> >telephone
and modem, and you're using a plain terminal program like
> >Procomm, you're out of luck. The Mosaic programs are
available on the
> >
> More specifically, it's the "plain
terminal program" here that's the
> key. In order to use Mosaic (or any other
network program such as
> Gopher, Telnet, FTP, etc.) it's
necessary to have a communications
> program
which employs the "TCP/IP" protocol. A number of such programs
> exist and can connect to the Internet via SLIP (Serial Line
Internet
> Protocol) or PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol).
Mosaic
runs on a machine running the X11 windowing system.
If you dont have an ethernet connection
to the internet from your workststaion
then dont bother with mosaic.
Mosaic
combines gopher, ftp and several other neat gadgets together into one
tool. A nice
gent this morning gave the names of the non x clients
to use.
For all you folks who dont have etherhose coming outta the back of your
workstations go with the dumbterm
clients. You can still download the
stuff
that you cant display. It just takes you a little longer to see
the images.
There is alot od
stuff out there that is plain text.
There is also
audio, fixed images, and moving images too.
You can view moving satelite weather images just like TV.
And dont forget the "Surfnet"
from down in OZ for all you surfers.
They even have a camera hooked up to
this cool Aussie beach!
Dunno
what Gore is talking about when he prattles on about his information
highway... Its already here and was built back in 68 !
> Once obtaining a program capable of doing
SLIP or PPP, however, the
> problem of finding
a host to accept the connection is non-trivial at
> this
time. That problem will soon go
away as commercial companies
> (cable TV,
telephone, specialized?) start offering
connections. At a
> cost, of course.
Dial up SLIP or PPP is about $250/mo and about $5/hr on top of
that.
CERFNET is coming to the Bay Area and will be competing with
BARNET.
CERFNET will be selling ISDN connections to home users.
>
One more current caveat: Attempting
to use Mosaic with a 2400 baud, or
> slower,
modem is downright painful. Anyone
buying a modem nowadays
> should get a high
speed (9600 or faster) modem.
Correction!
Dont
try SLIP or PPP without at least a 14.4 modem.
Slip at 9600 is painfull too.
SLIP or PPP under 9600 is so IMPOSSIBLE
that
it isnt worth trying.
-texx
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Date:
Thu, 21 Jul 1994 09:02:08 +0600
From: ***@scoter.cdev.com
Subject:
Goodwill Games "home page"/ gymn "home
page"
Texx intended this for the whole
list. Enjoy.
--John
----- Begin Included Message -----
>From ***@netcom.com
Wed Jul 20 18:54 CDT 1994
Subject: Re: Goodwill Games "home
page"/ gymn "home page"
Date: Wed,
20 Jul 1994 16:45:47 -0700 (PDT)
Soon there will be a gymnastics "home page".
I am still working
on getting it all done.
My HTML editor sux !
Well anyway I
will let you all know when I have it done and then
you
all can beat me up with "Add this!" messages...
TTFN
-texx
----- End Included
Message -----
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Date: Thu, 21
Jul 1994 10:52:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: <***@gateway.us.sidwell.edu>
Subject:
Goodwill Games "home page"/ gymn "home
page"
> Soon there will be a gymnastics
"home page".
> I am still working on getting it all done.
>
My HTML editor sux !
>
> Well anyway I will let you all know
when I have it done and then
> you all can beat
me up with "Add this!" messages...
Could you give us a
preliminary http address for testing purposes? ;).
Also, I have access to
a full page color scanner right here by my
computer,
so if you want anything scanned (name the magazine and I can
find the picture, so to speak ;), I can do so. Incidently...
I always
write my html in a plain text editor.. none of this fancy stuff for me ;).
Try out our site, which I administrate...
http://www.sidwell.edu/ is the
starting
point.
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Date: Thu, 21 Jul
1994 08:59:02 -0600
From: ***@merle.acns.nwu.edu
Subject: gymn intro
Greetings to all gymn
subscribers! Since I'm new to gymn, I'll introduce
myself. My name is Allison, I am 26 years old,
and I live in the
Chicago area.
I am a former gymnast, having competed 7 years in USGF (in
Kansas City) and 4 years in NCAA Division III (at MIT). I am currently
working
on my Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University,
and I am particularly interested in the biomechanics of
human movement (I
think my love for gymnastics had
something to do with my career choice!).
My research is on movement
disorders and computer simulation of orthopaedic
surgeries, but I am also very interested in sports
biomechanics and I
recently worked for a year in
the USOC Sports Science Division at the U.S.
Olympic Training Center in
Colorado Springs. At the
training center I did
a lot of video work for the
resident men's gymnastics team, and I worked
closely
with U.S. men's technical director Mas Wantanabe on
some
biomechanical analyses of various compulsory
skills. So, I am very
interested in men's gymnastics as well as women's gymnastics
and the
collegiate scene.
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Date:
Thu, 21 Jul 1994 12:18:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: ***@netcom.com
Subject: gymn intro
>
{...}
>
> I am
currently
> working on my Ph.D. in biomedical
engineering at Northwestern University,
> and I
am particularly interested in the biomechanics of human movement
WELCOME
ABOARD !
I started in Bio-Med myself but ended up
a a computer geek
doing
sys/net admin molewhacking. Where'd I go wrong ?
(grin)
Wish we'd get more of you on this
list.
> (I think my love for gymnastics had something to do with my
career choice!).
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT !
>
My research is on movement disorders and computer simulation of orthopaedic
> surgeries,
but I am also very interested in sports biomechanics and I
> recently worked for a year in the USOC Sports Science
Division at the U.S.
> Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
You'll have to tell us
more about that !
> At the training center
I did
> a lot of video work for the resident
men's gymnastics team, and I worked
> closely
with U.S. men's technical director Mas Wantanabe on
some
> biomechanical analyses of various
compulsory skills. So, I am
very
> interested in men's gymnastics as well
as women's gymnastics and the
> collegiate
scene.
There have been som
bio-mech threads on this list in the past.
I
anticipate you will be able to add ALOT to the ones in the future.
(texx steps up on soapbox and the
rest of the list runs for cover)
Mens gymn in the US is in big trouble.
We have problems with
prevailing attitude that tmens gymn
isnr macho enough.
We also have NCAA trying to
pull the plug on mens gymn.
I
hope your research will help us develop a studly
enough mens gymn program
in the US that interest will increase and then
maybe NCAA wont yank the plug
on it.
Right
now the guys are being ignored and nearly everything about gymn
is about
the girls. I apreciate
your interest in the guys side too!
-texx
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Date:
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 19:46:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: <***@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject:
Gymn Poll #3 - results
Total members of Gymn: 181
Number of respondants:
17
Percentage: 9.4% (that's pitiful!
I guess I need to come
up
with easier/shorter questions)
The first question was if you were the
FIG, would you keep or drop
compulsories? The vote was 14 in favor of keeping
them, 3 in favor of
dropping.
The second
question had several parts:
1. How would you improve TV coverage of
gymnastics?
Most popular answer: show more routines and less human interest stuff
Other popular answers: show a
variety of gymnasts, not just the top 3
get better commentators
take more time to explain the sport (one
suggested
an "expert's roundtable" similar to
an NFL
pre-game show -- but shorter, of course)
Other
answers: show only gymnastics, not also bowling, horseracing, etc
don't try to show meets live -- it's too
difficult
fewer flashbacks to the early days
better advertising of the time and date
beforehand
get more sponsors
treat gymnastics as if it were a real sport
2. Who
are your favorite commentators?
Elfi
Schlegel wins this by a landslide with half of our answers
mentioning her.
Also big (ie 3 or more mentions) was Kathy
Johnson,
Bart Connor, Tim Daggett, Peter Vidmar,
and Julianne McNamara.
Negative comments were received for KJ, TD, Cathy
Rigby, Mary Lou
Retton. In general, people sais
they liked commentators who made
positive comments
about gymnasts, were unbiased in their narration,
and
were not annoying or condescending.
3. Favorite television
coverage:
The Triplecast wins this, with six
votes. (Come on people, you
know
NBC could never do that again, with all the money they lost...)
Other
broadcasts receiving multiple votes were: 1992 USA Olympic
Trials (NBC);
ESPN coverage in general, '89 Worlds in particular; 1990
Goodwill
Games (TNT).
There you have it!
Rachele
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Date:
Wed, 20 Jul 94 23:04:33 EDT
From: <***@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Gymn Poll #3 - results
>Negative comments were
received for KJ, TD, Cathy Rigby, Mary Lou
>Retton.
How
quickly we all forget: John Tesh! After all
the b*tching on this
list
about him during the Olympics, no one mentioned him (guess I should
have answered the survey...)
--Robyn
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Date:
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 19:10:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: <***@owlnet.rice.edu>
Subject:
Gymn Pub
>From Adriana:
| I'm
working at Goldman Antonetti & Cordova, which is
a big law firm in San
| Juan.
Work's been interesting; I do research on legal questions and then
|
write memoranda that the lawyers use in preparing
their cases (or whatever
| they're working on for
the client). So far everything I've
done has been for
| the litigation
department. One thing involved
corporations and two others
| bankruptcy, and I
feel no more inclined than before to become involved in
| those fields. :)
Aside from work, I've been busy with gymnastics (really?)
| lately, as I imagine you've all noticed, judging nationals
and now PR Cup.
| And besides
that, mostly I kinda veg and read, watch TV, talk to
friends,
| and work on stuff like my list of my
gymnastics videos. That's about it;
my
| life is not the stuff of thrillers. :)
>From
Robert Watson:
Ho hum.
Well, I guess the most intereting thing that's
happening is that
I'm literally about to walk out the door for a convention
in New Orleans
for BBS sysops, and if you want a
few days, I'll walk back in the doors
and tell you
if it was worth it ;). I suppose
moving on one year
academically is worth some
mention, I'm now a senior in high school, so
will
graduate in June next year.. I will
leave to visiti relatives in
England on the 11th, could be interesting (?).
Rachele
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Date:
Wed, 20 Jul 94 15:18:47 CDT
From: ***@amoco.com
Subject:
Nationals
Hi,
My daughter is about to drive me nuts about
Nationals. She wants to go watch,
but has lost her
info sheet. If anyone knows what days, any scheduling info,
and prices could you pass it along please? I'm hoping we can
attend.
Thanks,
Kim
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Date:
Tue, 19 Jul 1994 13:19:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: ***@netcom.com
Subject:
small question...
> ...excuse me for
interrupting, but I have a question...
>
> I'm a 23 yr old male who lives in Jacksonville Florida. I have had a deep
> love of gymnastics for a long while and had a bit of
exposure to them my
> first year at college in
NY. But now, as I'm no longer goingto school
> there, I
no longer have much acces to gymnastic
equipment. I still have
> the urge to practice though.
Dont
waste time... DO IT NOW !
> My question
is, does anyone have any recommendations as to how I could
> enjoy the flexibility and strength that gymnastics provides
without a
> gymnastics
"setting"? I'm rather
tall (6'2") so competition is out
> probably,
but I'm still yearning to develop the skills a male gymnast has.
Heck,
the average height of NCAA div 2 Mens Gymn was gaining fast on 6 feet.
With consolidation of
NCAA Mens Gymn its still
gaining on 6 feet but not as
ast
because of all the "shrimps" still in the program
(that was meant humourously!
So dont get offended all you shorter folk)
I too am one of
the "goliath gymnasts" at a whopping 5-11.
Rumour
hazzit I drag my knuckles on the ground too!
Dont sweat the height thing.
Keep in mind that
gymnasts get hurt more often than american
football.
Get used to that fact.
Being a taller gymnast you will get hurt more often
han
say
someone who is 5-2. The height will
make you a tad less gracefull
sometimes,
more likely to lose balange because you centre of balance is in a
different
place and being taller, the lever length of your limbs will open you
up to worse injury but DONT LET that scare you off,
because the RISK IS WORTH IT !
Outta school ?
Well
I guess you are ready for what we call the "rigor mortiss"
meets.
USGF is neglecting all
us old duffers. Faced with this
indifference
there are pockets of activity where
we hold our own meets
whilst waiting for USGF to
get off the dime.
(USGF attitude is that after college you are too over
the hill for them to
give a damn about. They are dead wrong because when you are
over the hill you
will pick up speed)
(I
KNOW USGF hears about what we talk about on this list, Im
PRAYING they
take this hint ! QUIT IGNORING us old farts, OK ?)
You are younger than I am so dont sweat the age thing either.
There was this lady
who had never done gymn before, She started at 57
and by the time she was 62 she was queen of the balance
beam. She was so
good people were afraid to compete against her.
By the
way, the rigor mortiss meets are cool!
I doubt anyone gets less than a 9.0 !
What to do about gear ? Hmmmm......
Some of the stuff you can build
yourself.
One of these days when i get my SUN
server fixed, Ill post in postscript form
blueprints
for some gear you can build yourself.
This assumes you have the room for it
all.
Believe it or not, a rebound floor is just a frame around the outside
and on
the inside are 16 sheets of 3/4 waferboard settin on top of a bed
of
automotive valve springs. You need tad more hardware but thats most of it.
Then you put padding and carpeting on
the top.
Simple as this is theres a
problem. NEVER NEVER
NEVER workout alone!
Somebody must be there to
drop the nickel to bring out the paramedics.
Rings you can build yourself
too. You would be amazed at the
things you can
valt over
but you really need a landing pit untill you get the
hang of it.
At scoutcamp I used to vault over
anything in my way scaring the begeezes outta
folks.
Unless you have a background in structural
civil engineering, dont try to build
your own p bars or hi-bar. I tried it once WITH help from a
structural
engineer, I even radio micrographed my welds and I STILL broke the aparatus.
Im VERY lucky Im still walking. Pbars, hi bars and supports for still rings
ake
some
WILD forces during use. Next time
you catch a meet, look at how a ring
frame actuall deforms its shape during the routine of even one of
those little
guys.
You can buily your own gear but it has risks.
> If
anyone could advise, I'd greatly appreciate it..
As
to where to find an adult program where you are, I cant
help much.
We are spoiled rotten here in the bay area with 3 adult
programs
but where to find help in Florida, I draw
a blank.
UC BErkeley has a GYMN club that is
open to outsiders.
Do any of your colleges down there hav
anything similar ?
Have you checked on your local YMCA ? Some of
them still have the gear around
usually piled up
in the corner of the gymn not used in 10
years...
If you cant find the gear, then at least stretch and build
strength
so that when you finally get access to aparatus, you will be a total stud !
Do anything (thats safe) to increase your flexibility.
Lay on your
back, draw knees to your chest then touch knwwes to
your ears.
That sort of thing. Stretch EVERY
DAY. Everyday you skip you lose 2
days
progress our coach used to say.
Theres this system in your body called a
"braking" system. It
prevents you
rom
having
your feet split out from uder you and tearing you in
half. Bummer !
Doing
the splits is a goal in gymn. So lean on a chair or something and
lower
yourself REAL SLOW into a split. Eventually
you wont be able to go further.
Hold that awhile maybe holding the chair
too. After awhile the braking system
realizes that
pther muscles (muscles you contiously
control!) have taked over
the
job, so they go "OK guys take a break, !" Then you lower yourself
some
more and it takes awhile for the braking
system to realize that you just fooled
them and
that they have to go back to work.
You can adapt this principle to
several
types of stretches. But also dont over do it and get hurt either.
When you get
access to aparatus, let us know and we will restart
the "rip"
thread and threads on
"grips".
One last good excercise
is "wall pushups". Do a head stand against the wall.
Push up to a hand stand then come back down to head stand. Repeat.
It
will build up key muscles that you will use in nearly all events.
Do
strength a few times a week. One guy I know does 100 situps
a day.
You want to build strength without building bulk. Bulk gets in the way of
flexibility.
Build wind if you can, swim, bike, jog, dance, ANYTHING.
Bottom
line: Dont sweat the height or age things. Concentrate on excercise,
strength & flexibility and dont
worry about lack of aparatus at least at
first. Worry
about basics first. Hibar does you no good if you dont have the
strength to hold
on.
> "There is a fine line between genius and insanity...and
I am that line..."
Me too !
I
am reminded of a beatles
song
"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when Im 64?"
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Date:
Thu, 21 Jul 94 15:05:13 EDT
From: ***@aol.com
Subject: Streching and Flexabilty
I
thought that maybe some people on "Gymn"
would be interested in this. There
is a 3 part
"Stretching and Flexabilty" FAQ on the rec.sport.misc. usenet
group (as of 21 July). There is also a WWW page available.
For more info
contact...Brad Appleton at brad@mail.csd.harris.com.
Susan
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