altadore weightlifting & fitness club

by Rick McCharles
This is the 60-year-old champion of the age 40 and older division of the Australian Victoria State “Geriatric Gym” championships 2007.

I went to take photos and video of the competition — and ended up competing myself. We did 3 apparatus of our choice. I picked tumbltrack, horizontal bar and vault. And managed […]

Congratulations to Jeremy Mosier who took the Bronze in Men’s Senior Double Minitramp at Nationals in Regina.
You’ll see Jeremy practicing most every night of Adult training.
Talk to him if you want to learn more about training Trampoline, Tumbling or Double Minitramp.
Jer’s day job is Women’s Head Coach at Altadore.

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Altadore’s most famous son, Olympic Floor Champion 2004 Kyle Shewfelt has 50 new photos (flickr) of himself and the Canadian Men’s Team linked from KyleShewfelt.com.

This is his new coach Tony Smith from University of Calgary. Kyle still travels to train with former coach Kelly Manjak (now living in Ontario) whenever he gets the chance.
All pics […]

We had a good crew of volunteers Jan. 4th cleaning and renovating our aging warehouse gym.
It’s never looked better, truth be told.
Thanks to all who helped out!

Richard in a cleaning blizzard.

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Altadore is nearly 40-years-old.
That means Ed must be at least that long in the tooth.
He built his own bunjie twisting belt. Click PLAY or watch the video clip on YouTube.

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There is no more loyal or dedicated adult gymnast at Altadore than Gary Braniff.
His Energy Lake martial arts studio operates evenings — so Gary comes into train personally with coach Ed Vincent.
Here Gary arrives with the pre-training coffee for Sensai Ed.

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Here’s a shout out to Stephen Neal for organizing the recent floor renovation at Altadore. The club is replacing old carpet with easy-to-keep-clean tiles. A big improvement. And adding rubber baseboard to protect the walls.

That’s Stephen slurping the glue.

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That’s Altadore Gymnastics website editor KN showing the surfers what for!
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This is Brian Pinnell who started as an adult recreation gymnast in 2002 coached by our own Rick McCharles. Brian now supervises the adult program at the Christchurch School of Gymnastics in New Zealand.
He could do an iron cross the first time he ever tried one!
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One of our header images shows adult gymnasts flying through the air.
The first two are coaches Andrew and Sheena. But who is that on the right hand side?

(I took his photo the other night but forgot to get his name.)

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