This pogo stick is a Flybar.
Click PLAY or watch Fred Grzybowski on YouTube.
Watch him jump over a 7ft, 6in pole.
Entries from March 2011 ↓
pogo stick flip
March 26th, 2011 — Circus
Special Needs Trampolining
March 26th, 2011 — recreation, Trampoline
Is trampoline a good activity for participants with special needs?
Find out on a new site out of the U.K. dedicated to the topic. It already has a surprisingly number of links.
Rebound Therapy® is the phrase used to describe the practice of using a trampoline to provide therapeutic exercise and recreation for people with a wide range of Special Needs. …
• Special Needs Trampolining classes (£4.50 drop-in)
… a resource for people across the world involved in trampolining and specifically encourage those involved with special needs participants. You might be a special needs teacher, a physiotherapist, a mainstream trampolining coach …
visit the home page – Special Needs Trampolining
(via Rec Gymnastics)
Women’s National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Championships
March 26th, 2011 — Gymnastics, NCAA
UW-La Crosse are 2011 NCGA Champions.
CONGRATS.
… University of Wisconsin-La Crosse won its fourth consecutive National Collegiate Gymnastics Association title, while La Crosse’s Christa Booman took home the All-Around championship at the 2011 NCGA Team Championships on Friday evening at the McPhee Physical Education Center at UW-Eau Claire. …
official meet home page
full team results
(via USAG)
Shewfelt Gym Fest RESULTS
March 25th, 2011 — Gymnastics
All around – international MAG:
1. 87.40 Liu Rongbing (China)
2. 86.45 Tyler Mizoguchi (USA)
3. 86.10 Casey Sandy (CAN)
USAG Score Sheet Jr Sr & International – All Around full results (PDF)
Oh Canada, what a result for the hosts:
Team:
1. Canada Red
2. Canada White
3. USA
4. China (one man short of a full team due to injury)
USAG Score Sheet Jr Sr & International Full Team results (PDF)
Jenn Isbister:
Canada “Red” and Canada “White” surprised at the inaugural Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival (KSGF), …
Competition tonight used the 4-3-3 format (four members to a team, three athletes up per apparatus, all three scores counting).
Canada “Red” claimed the top team score, and consisted of Olympic veterans Nathan Gafuik and Brandon O’Neill, recent men’s Elite Canada runner-up and 2007 Worlds team member and former NCAA Champion Casey Sandy, and relative newcomer Jason Scott.
One of Canada’s top all-arounders, Gafuik competed only 5 events tonight, skipping floor. Fellow Beijing Olympian O’Neill provided a spectacular return to competition tonight, scoring over 15 on the three events he competed. He also posted the top score of the night on his specialty, floor exercise (16.250).
read more on Gymn.ca
Jennifer Borton has been posting photos
Men’s Collegiate Championships
March 25th, 2011 — Gymnastics, NCAA
The U.S. Air Force Academy and Arizona State University successfully defended their Varsity and Collegiate Club Division titles …
2011 USA Gymnastics Men’s Collegiate Championships
Springfield (Mass.) College
March 25, 2011Varsity
Team
1. U.S. Air Force Academy, 345.700
2. College of William and Mary, 344.600
3. Springfield College, 335.100 ??
4. U.S. Military Academy, 344.500
5. U.S. Naval Academy, 332.600All-around
1. Ty Evans, Springfield College, 85.700
2. Coltun Wulf, U.S. Air Force Academy, 85.600
3. Andrew Faulk, U.S. Naval Academy, 84.900_____
Collegiate Club Team
1. Arizona State University, 329.800
2. University of Washington, 305.300
3. College of Brockport, 294.600All-around
1. Lee Wilkerson, Arizona State University, 82.700
2. Brett Lazarus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 82.000
3. Charles Baysinger, Arizona State University, 80.500
via email from Leslie King, USAG
competition home page
Are you (like me) still trying to understand what this competition is all about?
At the men’s USA Gymnastics Collegiate Championships, the team and all-around competition are divided into two categories, varsity and collegiate. The varsity competition is for Division II and III schools with gymnastics as a varsity sport and the military academies, and the collegiate team category is for two-year or four-year degree-granting schools with gymnastics as a club sport. The individual event finals combine the two divisions into one.
Here’s more background on this important event – Springfield College plays host to 2011 USA Gymnastics Men’s Collegiate Championships
03/24/2011
Gymnastics Canada Nationals 2012
March 25th, 2011 — Gymnastics, Power Tumbling, Rhythmic, Trampoline
Klara Kesmarky Miller announced the new website.
May 21-26th, 2012
Regina will welcome over 1100 gymnasts, coaches and officials to the 2012 Canadian Gymnastics Championships where four disciplines will hold their championships together. We are looking forward to hosting Canada for this celebration of gymnastics! …
Saskatchewan does a terrific job of hosting major meets.
PEI is hosting this year, 2011.
vault landing deductions
March 25th, 2011 — Gymnastics, judging, vault
Full Twist:
The WAG help desk document has been updated for March 2011. The new clarifications and updates of this document have been added in green boxes. …
This is an improvement. But why keep the word “close”?
The 0.1 should be for landing on the line with one foot.
There’s more on the Full Twist post including links to the landings of Nabieva, Mustafina and Sacramone at Worlds 2010 – Attention all Judges!
gymnastics training video
March 25th, 2011 — Gymnastics, physical preparation
Elite Canada Trampoline
March 25th, 2011 — Power Tumbling, Trampoline
Starts today in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.
Good luck to everyone competing tramp, double-mini and tumbling.
Thanks Brett MacAulay.
Update:
Legend Julie Warnock has retired, age-27.
She trained 9000 hours in a career that includes two current World Records. Happily, Julie will continue in the sport as a judge.
upcoming Gerald George events
March 25th, 2011 — biomechanics, books & manuals, Coach Education
Dr. Gerald George, author of the current international best-seller Championship Gymnastics: Biomechanical Techniques for Shaping Winners will be speaking at the following meetings in 2011:
June 11-12, USA Gymnastics (USAG) Region 3 Congress, Vail, Colorado
August 12-14, US Association of Independent Gymnastics Clubs (USAIGC) Educational Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada
August 18-20, USA Gymnastics National Congress, St. Paul, Minnesota
September 30-October 1, Gymnastics Ontario Federation Congress, Ontario, Canada
If you can’t make one of those, check out his YouTube Channel:
Balandin – Rings – Bercy
March 25th, 2011 — Gymnastics, rings
BALANDIN Aleksandr (RUS) – ‘Butterfly to Invert Cross’
15.433 (D: 6.7 / E: 8.733)
Rank : 4th
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Watch Scott Rosenthal training the ‘Balandin 2′.
Thanks Geoffrey Taucer.
Jordyn Wieber – Amanar – Jesolo
March 25th, 2011 — Gymnastics, vault
most underrated male gymnast?
March 24th, 2011 — Gymnastics
Dan Purvis, Ashish Kumar, Epke Zonderland, Philipp Boy, Danell Leyva, Oleg Stepko … ??
The funniest response was from Aunt Joyce:
…I believe a more appropriate question would be who is the most overrated gymnast in the world. In terms of underrated, so little attention is paid to men’s gymnastics that it is impossible to discern.
I picked this guy:
Leave your comments or correct answer on the original Gymnastics Examiner post – The most underrated male gymnast in the world?
Update: Dan did not qualify for Europeans. I assume he’s not quite yet ready, physically. Olympics are the priority.
