The perfect 10 blog posted this list in 2005 assessing why College girls can draw a bigger crowd than almost any other gymnastics competition.
Top Ten Reasons Why Women’s NCAA Gymnastics is So Popular
1. Crowd involvement.
2. The enthusiasm & emotion of the athletes.
3. The floor routines. The choreography and crowd appeal of women’s NCAA floor routines is unsurpassed.
4. The ease with which the audience can understand the scores.
5. The artistry & beauty of the gymnastics.
6. Team loyalty.
7. Stuck landings.
8. Most of the athletes are older.
9. Fan base.
10. Television coverage.
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A more recent post lists the top 10 highlights of NCAA Women’s Championships in Salt Lake City 2007.
I am on my way to the Canadian Gymnastics Championships in Regina, population 180,000. Lets see what kind of audience we attract.
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This is OT, but could you do a post on strength moves on rings? Few things, I don’t understand:
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A. Very rarely do gymnasts do a full 2.000 seconds (from stopping movement) in the position. This is more obvious later in routines where moves seem to last a second or even less. But even at the beginning, many are a tenth of a second shy of 2 seconds (few are ever over).
B. Is an inverted cross supposed to have horizontal arms like a regular cross? I have never seen this and think it would be very hard. (I have seen fully horizontal Malteses, although many are a little planchey).
C. Why is a V-seat on rings an A? (I think on floor it is still a B? This makes no sense. It’s actually rather tricky to do a V-seat on rings and most elite gymansts can’t. (I was the only one at a competitive uni in the 80s who did and when I worked out with the 88 Olympians, most could not also.)
D. I think full display of strength is shown by doing a cross PULLOUT from a fully horizontal cross. Many super rings guys don’t seem to do this. But the best strength rings man, I ever saw always did it. (Tom Ferguson, USNA 84-88, his body was incredibly muscular and he did iron crosses with small people hanging from him).
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