Alabama: Not Invincible … Oklahoma: Can they stay undefeated? … UCLA: Finding consistency … Florida: Don’t count them out … Georgia: Needs a road win …
The winning team at Championships must hit 24 for 24.
UCLA I’d call the favourite. But can they hit 24 routines under pressure?
If you believe in momentum, pick Oklahoma. It seems to be their year.
I think Alabama has a good chance to hit 24 routines. If they do, it will be tough to beat the Tide.
Her computer hard drive crashed, many thousands of video clips lost. I left a comment recommending she sign up for Carbonite or Mozy, the two leading online back-up solutions.
This document called Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Help Desk has the intention to clarify and give examples of the different rules of the FIG WAG Code of Points.
The goal of WTC is to reduce different interpretations of the rules, therefore provide a more objective work of the judges. …
WAG Help Desk
It’s a supplement to the code. Here are samples of the kind of “Help” included:
This document would be useful for any Artistic WAG coach. Download a copy to your computer: WAG Help Desk (PDF)
As a PDF document online, it will be inexpensive and easy to update.
Congratulations to the by FIG WTC for putting this together. Good work.
… As Brian McKeever and his brother Robin raced toward Paralympic gold in the cross-country freestyle Monday, the announcers warned the raucous crowd to stop cheering and just wave to keep them on course.
But there was no silencing the spectators at Whistler Paralympic Park, who screamed wildly and flailed cowbells in support of the brothers from Canmore, Alta., who scooped up the country’s first Winter Paralympic gold medal on home soil.
“It wasn’t a quiet stadium when we rolled through so that was a lot of fun,” McKeever, 30, said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s quiet or not. I can see (a bit) so I just follow Robin.” …
Bridget Sloan tweeted the bad news that David Beckham tore his Achilles.
I always think of that as a gymnastics injury.
… David Beckham says he is determined to make a “swift and full recovery” from the ruptured Achilles tendon that has left his dream of playing in a record fourth World Cup finals for England in tatters. …
One of the feel good gymnastics stories of the year. The big comeback of Hollie Vise for Oklahoma. She competed the all-around for the first time in her College career, scoring 39.600.
As a trivia side note, when I started my first gymnastics website (for Kyle Shewfelt in 1999), I identified Hollie’s as the best gymnast website online. It’s almost unchanged today, 11yrs-later. I still like it.
With the recent success of Bridget Sloan, Coach Marvin Sharp has made a name for himself in the world of elite gymnastics. Marvin talks about how he got started in coaching gymnastics and why he ultimately decided to open his own gym.
Marvin is the Head Coach of Sharp’s Gymnastics in Indiana and the personal coach to 2008 Olympians Bridget Sloan and Samantha Peszek. Marvin has been coaching Bridget for 13 years and in October of 2009, he coached Bridget to an individual World All-Around title.
… She seems to have peaked in the RQS time frame climbing up the list rapidly the last month or so. Sarah’s RQS for individual events has her ahead of Susan on BB and FX, tied on UB with Susan being ahead in Vault. The total season average has Susan in the lead 39.525 to 39.358 for Sarah. Vanessa Zamarippa actually has a higher season average than both but is tied for second RQSwise with Susan.
The RQS (Regional Qualifying Score) results in some surprising rankings. Here’s how it’s explained by GymInfo:
… Qualification for regional competition is based on a team’s and an all-around competitor’s six best regular-season-meet scores, of which three must be away. To obtain the regional qualifying score (RQS), the high score is eliminated and the remaining five scores are averaged. …
Therefore, if you have 3 meets away in which you got high scores, your ranking may be higher than if all your highest scores were at home meets.
Kristina Vaculik is getting much love for finishing in the top 3 on all four apparatus. Many, including me, were disappointed she was injured in 2008, unable to be selected for the Olympics. It’s nice to see her continue with international success.
