Entries from August 2010 ↓

Congrats on the Emmy win.

… The woman who weekly terrorizes the kids of “Glee” as Sue Sylvester took home the statue for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy on Sunday night …

MTV

From the Facebook album: GLEE Season 2 Cast photos by Glee

Our favourite Cheer coach returns with a new season TUE Sept. 21st.

Mike Durante is looking for a very special event. It need not be in the States though it’s a problem competing kids under a different set of rules.

jamaica/ puerto rico/ bahamas/south america?

I’m one of the organizers of my favourite meet, the Great West Gym Fest near Spokane. (Feb. 25-28, 2011)

Courtney Kupets loved it last year …

Leave a comment if you can recommend the best invitational gymnastics meet, anywhere.

Alicia Sacramone now on Twitter! Follow her at @ASacramone3

(via The All Around)

I thought this fad would die.

A personal thanks to Dana Brass, interim Head Coach of Go For It Gymnastics in Vegas, for organizing our clinic / camp last week. It was great.

Shout out to Kyle Shewfelt, inspirational headliner at camp. He made a lot of kids very happy.

From the Facebook album: Wall Photos by Amber

… Many of the girls had attended the UCLA camp with Nastia earlier in the summer. They told me they didn’t see any Olympic medals there. (Likely Nastia has hers locked up in a vault.)

more photos from Go For It

Stacey sends a link to one of the WAG compulsory routines in Great Britain.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I like this drill for fun. But the “scoop to candle” is the essential.

Vanessa Steck, at VISA Championships, had the guts to walk up and talk to some of the top American coaches: Chris Burdette, Mary Lee Tracy, and Miss Val.

It’s an extremely entertaining post:

… My favorite coach out there, hands down, was Miss Val. It took me quite awhile to get up the courage, but finally I went up to her as Zam was waiting for a turn to warm up on bars and asked her if it would be too corny to say I found her coaching style very inspirational. She laughed and said not at all, and then we had a lovely conversation. She is incredibly personable and genuinely kind. She told me she had just been talking to Chris Waller about what a big difference it is to go from NCAA to elite, especially a big event like Visas.

Valorie lights up when she talks about Zam. Before the competition, she called her a “joy to work with” and afterwards informed me that her athlete is a “jewel, a gem…she is just such a sweet, kind individual.” She smiled as she told me that Zam decided to do this in mid-May and they are just getting their feet wet, trying it out. …

Nationals- The Coaches

Liukin with Lizzy LeDuc

That’s from Couch Gymnast magazine #6.

Periodization: theory and methodology of training by Tudor O. Bompa is on Google Books. (2nd edition 2005)

There are some limitations as to how much of the text you can read online. Google Books service is free.

Google Books – Periodization: theory and methodology of training

The dead tree version is available on Amazon. ($15)

Junior U.S. champion Kyla Ross, along with Gabrielle Douglas, Sarah Finnegan, Brenna Dowell, McKayla Maroney and Sabrina Vega will represent the U.S. at the upcoming Pan American Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico Sept. 2-5, USA Gymnastics announced Monday. …

The men’s team for the Pan American Championships, named following the U.S. Championships, is also made up of up and comers. Jake Dalton, Bryan del Castillo, Dylan Akers, Glen Ishino, Alex Buscaglia and Wes Haagensen have all been selected for the team. …

click through to Gymnastics Examiner for commentary – U.S. names six top juniors to Pan American Championships squad

Available on Universal Sports.

Cost is $9.99, payable (I hear) before Sept. 1st.

Click through to UniversalSports.com/premium … and try to navigate their confusing site.

Is that available only in the USA? … Leave a comment.

It’s not clear on their FAQ.

Many coaches tell me that GAT is the best of the American gymnastics conventions.

Labor Day Weekend, September 3-5, 2010, 44th Annual Gymnastics Association of Texas Convention at the beautiful Renaissance Hotel in Austin, Texas.

Speakers include:

… Beach, Tom & Reiko, Biggs, Tammy, Jason Jarrett, Foster, Bill, Forster, Tom, Gardner, Beth, Gehman, Paula, Gehman, Tony, Jarret, Cheryl, Maloney, Connie, Metzger, Jeff, Sahlein, Frank … and more

home page and registration

Dr. Gerald George, author of the new book, Championship Gymnastics: Biomechanical Techniques for Shaping Winners, will be there:

Sat., Sept. 4: Ten Critical Factors for Vaulting Success
Sat., Sept. 4: 5 Basic Principles for Refining Gymnastics Movement
Sun., Sept. 5: Mechanics of Rotation and Twisting
Sun., Sept. 5: Mechanics of Swing

The most recent issue is online free from Brigid McCarthy.

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Couch Gymnast #6

This video was taken at a clinic at (one of my former clubs), Can-Am in Saskatoon. It was the early 1990s. Her coach was Mr. B, an “acrosport” specialist. The clinician at this event was Yuval Ayalon.

She has the perfect name – Jacki Bender.

Click PLAY or watch Jacki on YouTube.

Clearly Jacki had the skills of an Acrobatic gymnast. … We should look for Beam specialists in future with this skill set.

(via 80sgymfan on IG forum)

At our Vegas clinic, interim Head Coach Dana Brass brought in a (former gymnast) circus handstand specialist to work with all of the older gymnasts.

Some of the contenders mentioned on a selecious IG forum thread:

Komova, Hadarean, Gogean, Liukin, Patterson, Lysenko.