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Victoria Moors wasn’t yet available so I ended up the interview on this weeks GymCastic audiocast.

We talk Canadian gymnastics, judging, FIG, coach education, the new FIG Age Group Camps and my personal gymnastics history.

15 minutes of fame.

listen to GymCastic episode 34

Chris was inspired to create a graphic celebrating Sam Mikulak on GymCastic episode 32.

… more than 100 gymnasts from around the world prepares for the Pro Gymnastics Challenge on Friday and Saturday in Bethlehem, Pa. …

The PGC will feature mixed teams of female and male gymnasts who will compete skill-for-skill in a “No Barriers Challenge” on Friday and “USA vs. the World” on Saturday. The event, which is taking place at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena, will be televised on ESPN2 on May 20, 21 and 22.

read an interview with competitor Kylee Botterman Kolarik

Check The Pit – social media round-up

Paul Ruggeri facing off with an INTERNATIONAL enemy on Instagram

Sam Mikulak is interviewed on this week’s GymCastic.

I’d posted this clip before. But it’s worth watching again.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The only other gymnast I’ve heard of try that release was Cade Raggio.

2012 Olympic vault finalist and two time NCAA Champion, Sam Mikulak takes us through the thrills of being raised by collegiate gymnasts, competing with two broken ankles, fast food runs, keeping his NCAA eligibility after London, his love life, J.O. rivalries, his gymnastics heros, the best thing a fan ever did for him, advice to young gymnasts, and the deets on his skill upgrades!

You can follow him on Twitter: @SamuelMikulak

Facebook.com/SamuelMikulak

Episode 32: Sam Mikulak & 2013 Men’s NCAA Championships

One of the best episodes, yet. I particularly liked the interview with USAG’s Scott Bregman.

Wow.

Tough tumbling line.

To watch you could click on the embed on this site. Or click through to Gymnastike.

The embed has no video ad. The Gymnastike page does.

I mention this as I’m a bit irked at Gymnastike for not being more transparent on which of their links lead to the membership only videos, and which are free to all.

Normally I’d tell people to go to Gymnastike rather than watch on this site. But right now, if you are not a paid Gold member, you should be leery of wasting your time on a Gymnastike link. Not knowing in advance whether or not you can watch it.

I’d recommend you to join Gymnastike Gold, but I’m also irked they are so reluctant to tell folks the price of membership up front. (My personal philosophy is not to buy any product that has deceptive or hidden pricing.)

All that said, this is a very cool tumbling sequence. Thanks for posting it Gymnastike.

Click PLAY or watch Nia Dennis on Gymnastike.

Watch more video of Nia Dennis on gymnastike.org

related – Checking in with Junior Elite Nia Dennis

GREAT coverage of Europeans online this year. Thanks to everyone there.

Some of the best links are posted atop the home page.

Europeans: Examiner | Couch Gymnast | Rewriting Russian Gymnastics | The All Around

Social media is the fastest way to get updates. Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Vasiliki Millousi photo by Enko

The Men’s competition has begun.

2013 Euros: David Belyavskiy takes a three-point lead in men’s subdivision one

Can you cartoon Soviet and Russian gymnastics in two comic, profane pages using mainly .gifs?

You can try.

Tumblr – Because FAN is short for FANatic – A (NOT SO) BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN GYMNASTICS SAGA AS IT RELATES TO THE FIRING OF ALEXANDER ALEXANDROV

PART 1 – The demise

PART 2 – The Resurgence.

hmm …

I’m feeling .gif fatigue.

And it seems Tumblr has grown increasingly negative. A place where haters try outdoing each other. I won’t link so often.

Offline until Apr 11 – hiking

On the April 1st extra episode of GymCastic, Uncle Tim mentioned the Forward Roll Gym Blog.

I looked it up.

… No such site. Seems Uncle Tim misspoke.

With a better effort, Chris Saccullo was able to find it.

Click the image to see the entire home page.

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is seeking an English mother tongue Editor to complete the federation’s Communications Department at the earliest possible commencing date.

Title / Function: Editor
Department: Communications
Reports to: Director of Marketing and Communications; Communications Manager
Location: FIG Head Office, Lausanne, Switzerland
Position: full-time (100%), permanent
Salary: competitive
Closing date: end of April 2013

The job requires a good knowledge base of the disciplines of Gymnastics, excellent English writing skills and a strong affinity to information research.

The Editor must fulfill the following requirements and be able to demonstrate

English mother tongue speaker

Excellent journalistic skills

Passion for and knowledge of Gymnastics

details

I’m extremely impressed with the FIG Communications department. This job could be fantastic.

My visit to the Lausanne Office a few years ago was a treat. The employees are keen, hard working and astonishingly multilingual.

WAG coaches should support this new site. It’s dedicated to technique.

For example this post recommending beginners not go to handstand when learning backward giants.

Click PLAY or watch a linked video on YouTube.

I link far too infrequently to a terrific resource, Gymnastics Zone.

It’s a huge site.

Best starting point is their Topic Cloud.

#ProGymnastics

Check out International Gymnastics Camp‘s PIT.

A nice interface for seeing gymnastics news links from around the world. This site is contributing.

They have a similar feed for Camp news. And Pro Gym Challenge news.

USA Male gymnasts. And USA female gymnasts.

Also, social media from female international gymnasts. And foreign male gymnasts.

Or … perhaps your preference is College gymnastics news.

Very cool.

I predict we’ll see many more pages like those in future.