A word of caution to all gymnasts and parents of gymnasts around the state. There is an individual going by the name of Jennifer Messelier contacting gymnasts through Facebook pretending to be a gymnast and trying to get them to “friend” “her”.
This person is either claiming to have met them at a competition, or saying that “she” is considering switching to their gym. Please be aware that this person is most definitely not who they say they are and in all likelihood is a man. …
… i was just informed that “he/she” is now going by the name “Jennifer Elizabeth“, and the picture is of a sitting pose on the beam. Beware, she is adding college girls from all over the country…
A leading Chinese sports official is calling for the implementation of bone-age analysis to stop athletes from faking their birth certificates to qualify for events.
Cai Zhenhua, the vice president of the State General Administration of Sport, was quoted as saying in Tuesday’s official People’s Daily newspaper that age fraud besmirches China’s national image and tramples on the principle of fair competition.
He also is head of the Chinese table tennis federation and says it will adopt bone-age analysis as a test case.
The IOC stripped China of its 2000 Olympic bronze medal in women’s team gymnastics for using an underage girl. …
… The Oklahoma Sooners finished their regular season undefeated and exploded with a 366.40, the highest score yet to be posted this season. They have moved past Stanford for this week’s #1 national ranking.
There will be one regular season meet left for some teams, others will rested for their 2011 Conference Championship meets on April 2nd. …
I’ve found the Women’s rankings very accurate in predicting who will finish highest at team championships. But not so with the Men.
I won’t make any prediction on who will win this year, though I do plan to be at Championships to see the meet with my own eyes.
Steven Legendre is a safe bet to win the all-around, however.
Penn State has another #1 Ring Man, Scott Rosenthal. Amazing.
Jason posted the first of a a three part series on what he’s learned …
… I started doing gymnastics when I was six years old and trained for over 16 years. At age 11 I started competing and placing in national competitions at the Junior and later the Elite levels. The highest I ever placed in senior men’s competition was 15th – I was never Olympic material, but I trained with many who were.
Previously, I wrote about how I blew out my knee and came back to win a national championship – this post is specifically about what gymnastics has taught me about acquiring and mastering skills.
Gymnastics is the perfect sport to teach these lessons …
Here’s an outline of his key points:
Acquiring and Mastering Skills
• Deliberate practice.
• Focus on the fundamentals.
• Break down the skill into pieces.
• Visualization
Organizing Committee for the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Tokyo 2011:
… We strongly believe that the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Tokyo 2011 would be the one of the meaningful events to encourage us, Japanese on our long way to recovery.
So far, there are no major problems in the venue, training halls, accommodation facilities where we would host gymnasts and relevant parties from overseas.
There is also no change in schedule for the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Tokyo 2011.
We are looking forward to see You in Tokyo in October.
Recall that an earthquake struck Christchurch, September 2010.
Holly Moon, from Christchurch School of Gymnastics, was forced to to train in Auckland for Commonwealth Games and World’s last Fall after the first serious earthquake:
pit now resembled a swimming pool due to cracks and subsequent leaking …
I’ve been following a sad court case in northern Australia. The death of adult recreational gymnast, Michelle Maitland, who fell from a tumbling trampoline, hitting her head on the concrete floor.
The final appeal for Townsville Gymnastics Association Inc AND Dean Allan Coggins was turned down. They were found guilty of not providing a safe facility:
(1) Concrete flooring and/or
(2) The failure to provide adequate protective covering to the landing area for gymnastic apparatus, namely a tumble tramp/tumble track.
Two big competitions in Alberta, Canada this weekend.
… young gymnasts and their coaches needed to be inspired and … exposed to a high level of gymnastics … gymnastics in Alberta and in Western Canada (and throughout Canada for that matter) would grow. …
International MAG competition – CHINA v CANADA v USA
… the first annual Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival, hosted at the University of Calgary, the weekend of March 25-27th, 2011.
In partnership with Right to Play, we want to host as many ‘gymnastics’ athletes as possible in a big, prestigious event. This will be truly memorable. Truly unique. ..
Kyle’s bringing in celebrity judges scoring routines out of a PERFECT 11.0
In the 19th century (around 1830), there were reports of uneven bars in France, but it was only in the second half of the 20th century when this apparatus with the asymmetrically adjusted bars gained its importance.
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It was at the first “real” World Championships in Budapest in 1934, which were the very first ones for women as well, when it came into favor as a competition apparatus and two years later, when it had its Olympic debut in Berlin. …
The Olympic Games in Helsinki … pushed the development of the apparatus forward, since it was a full apparatus there. The first Olympic Champion at uneven bars was the Hungarian Korondi.
At the World competitions in 1954 the still non-stayed uneven bars were placed as full and lone apparatus; the growing dynamics of modern gymnastics led to 39 (!) bar-breaks then!
