More than 4,000 people came out to Tampa’s historic Centro Ybor district to check out a truly unique parkour experience at Red Bull Art of Motion. …
During the first round of the competition, each competitor had 90 seconds to freestyle across the course showing off on and utilizing several different obstacles and features.
… Yohann Leroux of Paris, France who claimed the title as the first ever U.S. Red Bull Art of Motion champion.
I scan the web for stories of interest to acrobatic coaches, and link to the best. Contributors send me story ideas every day, as well.
On posts linking to those stories, I’ll often add commentary. And related information.
One of the first aggreator sites, still considered one of the best, is Techmeme. Exerpts are short. There’s no confusion regarding where the reader interested in any particular post can find the details. The news outlets they link love this site.
Often cited one of the worst aggregators is Huffington Post.
… the mother of all news internet impostures. …
The recipe is simple and extremely efficient: you take a 2600 words Vanity Fair interview of the financial reporter Michael Lewis on the rotten Greek public finances, you squeeze it down to 360 words (that’s down to 14% of the original length), and you have a self-supporting article that perfectly sums up Lewis’ point. This fits the internet era’s snippet culture: unless you nurture a secret passion for Hellenic bonds, you have no need to click and link from the HuffPo back to the original Vanity Fair story. …
I really enjoy the Huffington Post. And I really enjoy Amanda Turner’s posts for International Gymnast. But she’s very guilty of not sending traffic back to her sources. Amanda’s articles may be legal. But I’d say many are unethical.
Is Gymnastics Coaching doing enough to be a good aggregator?
Longboarding is variety of skateboarding, a relatively modern sport—which originated as “sidewalk surfing” in the United States, particularly California—in the 1950s. …
Like many others, I was surprised at Canadian Championships 2010 to see Savona back in contention. She looked back in June as a lock for the Senior team to Rotterdam.
When interviewing her for Gymnastike, I found an upbeat, enthusiastic gregarious personality. Positive to be around.
Click through to see what she has to say about her coaches, especially Alex Bard who’s been with her 12yrs.
I love this pic. Savona’s too excited even to stay focused for the team photo.
Preparing to compete in her first worlds, Canada’s Jessica Savona reflects on the struggles and successes she has experienced thus far, and reveals her strategy for reaching her international potential. Pictured: Savona … stands next to coach Yelena Davydova, 1980 Olympic champion, as Canada accepts the team silver at the 2010 Pan American Championships in Guadalajara.
If I was a College coach, I’d bump Savona high on my “to sign” list. She could lead a team.
Visa Championships 2011 will be hosted in Saint Paul, Minn. Aug. 17-20th. Artistic at the Xcel Energy Center, rhythmic, trampoline and tumbling at Roy Wilkins Auditorium.
HP Pavilion at San Jose, California, June 28-July 1. The USA Gymnastics National Congress and Trade Show will be staged at the San Jose McEnery Convention Cente.
“I am very grateful to my coaches, who are constantly with me,” Kanaeva stated. “I am happy that I have not let my coach down. Now, I have to keep improving. I will rest for a couple of days and then start preparing for new tournaments. I made some mistakes at the beginning of the championships, but the way I see it I am not a robot. It only means that I didn’t train hard enough. But during the Final I didn’t let myself think about my mistakes, I was neither scared nor nervous. I just focused on doing one element after another. I am glad that I was the one to finish off the event.”
StickItMedia posted an interview with the up-and-coming American gymnast who finished 9th at his first VISA Senior Championships this year.
The most interesting parts for me had to do with his coach:
Silverstein: Next year, I do not plan to compete NCAA. I really put a lot of thought into my decision about this. And I believe that my gymnastics can benefit more from staying with my coach Genadi Shub, and staying at my local gym for now, rather than going to an NCAA program. …
Silverstein: One of my biggest role models would have to be my coach Genadi. I had first walked into the gym a week before my tenth birthday, never doing serious gymnastics before. Genadi has put so much work and time into me, more then I could have ever asked. He never accepts anything less than my best inside and outside of the gym. I’ve learned so much from Genadi whether it was gymnastics- related or about life. Genadi’s acted as a second father to me and is a part of my family as far as I’m concerned. Genadi has been the most influential person in my gymnastics career hands down. …
