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What did your female gymnasts get for Christmas?

I’m guessing many opened iPads, Kindles and smart phones.

It’s true that women are still disinterested in careers in I.T., but that girls and women are keener on social media than males.

It seems inevitable that women will one day dominate the internet. Most of the most popular gymnastics bloggers today are female.

I got an iPhone 4S, myself.

related – Waldorf Independent Schools bucks tech trend with unplugged approach

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… including:

Coaching Strategy
Athlete Motivation
Conditioning Concepts
Lead-ups and Progressions for Skills
Staff Training
Booster Clubs
Event Complexes

…and more

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Path 2 is getting rave reviews. It’s a free app for iOS (iPhone) and Android.

The interface is gorgeous. Like the new Facebook Timeline, but far better.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

Path 1 was considered a joke when originally announced because of it’s 150-friend limit. Then they turned down $100 million Google dollars buyout.

Confident, or what.

Indeed. It may be that private social networks like Path might be the future. I’d like to test it by having all of my coaching staff, or all my competitive team, sign up for the same Path.

Get the app via path.com.

Leave a comment if you’ve used Path 2.

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… It’s essentially a Facebook-lite/virtual world mashup that allows prepubescent youth to share, comment and like their friends’ updates, pictures, videos and more, while also meeting the protections dictated by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

… Woozworld now has over 15 million unique visitors per month from over 180 countries. The users have created over 8 million avatars and 16 million virtual spaces, and play for an average of 50 minutes per day. …

Previously in beta, the new social networking service officially rolls out on Tuesday here on www.woozworld.com. …

TechCrunch

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If someone you are not yet friends with on Facebook tries to send you a personal message, you are not notified. It’s hidden away in a place called “Other Messages” — even if you have minimal privacy settings.

When I checked my “Other Messages” I had missed some important events.

Facebook fail.

Details on Lifehacker – Your Facebook Has Two Inboxes, and You’ve Probably Missed Messages from the Second

On the upside, I think the new Facebook Timeline is pretty cool. Easy to install. And you can test it for a week before showing the world. Here’s how to set it up in two clicks.

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If you’re not exhausted by online polls, head over to this one — far more entertaining than most.

On the other hand, you are required to answer ALL questions, even those you don’t have an opinon on. AND the number of choices are restricted on most. (There should be a write-in choice for each.)

Inside Gymnastics readers, let your voices be heard! It’s time for our Annual Reader’s Choice awards, decided by, well, you of course! Complete the survey below and look for the winners to be announced in our January/February 2012 issue!

It’s lengthy. But I was happy to see online categories included:

Best Gymnastics Blog?

Andy Thornton, American-Gymnast.com
Gymnastics Examiner
GymnasticsCoaching.com
Doug’s Blog, TumblTrak.com
Other…

Best Gymnastics Video Site?

Gymnastike
Universal Sports
YouTube

Inside Gymnastics Reader’s Choice

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Twitter is like Facebook … with most of the best features removed. You either hate twitter, or love the minimalist, often cryptic, comments. Like Haikus.

But hate it or not, twitter is here to stay.

Happily, they’ve just announced some major improvements soon to be rolled out.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That interface is already available for iPhone and Android. Link on the bottom of this page — fly.twitter.com

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Examiner:

Alicia Sacramone on the mend
Fabian Hambuechen off Bundesliga
2017 Universaide goes to Taipei
MAG U.S. Jr vs. Chinese Jr

The gymnastics week in review: Athletes of the Year and interesting new facts

Couch Gymnast:

Svetlana Khorkina
Mohini Bhardwaj
Annia Hatch
Ludmilla Yezhova-Grebenkova
Yelena Zamolodchikova
Suzanne Harmes

Gymnastics ‘Senior Citizens’, Part one

Gary From Gymnastike – A Decade Of Change

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From Peter Wraae Marino, a coach in Denmark:

This site is created to help coaches, gymnasts and parents to better understand what drills and skills gymnasts should work on and how to progress …

The site is free, but we do need you to register (FREE) to get full access.

Peter’s adding new content ongoing starting at the beginning. There are 30+ drills like this posted, so far.

Objective

Build a trust relationship between coaches and their gymnasts.

To get the gymnast comfortable doing drills above floor height and to reduce the gymnasts fear factor.

To teach the gymnast to tighten their body and maintain it through out the drill.

It’s a variation on a “trust fall“.

To see full posts for yourself, register here.

Or you can check the content without registration at TumblingDrills.com

The site has an RSS feed so — using a Reader — you could be notified every time he adds a new drill.

Peter is a game programmer so has tools to do those cool graphics. The site is very well formatted, too. I’m impressed.

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Mihai (mikeyy) Parvulescu of fangymnastics is conducting an online survey about Romanian Artistic Gymnastics.

… The main objective of this survey is to determine the way Romanian gymnastics is perceived by its fans and supporters. We all know that the Romanian delegation returned home without any medal from this year’s Worlds. Through this survey we want to find out what are the problems of Romanian gymnastics and how can we try to solve them or to bring in some advice.

We would be very grateful if you were willing to fill in and to help us sharing it.

The survey can be found here.

Also, we have a Romanian version.

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Just launched.

GYMmomentum.com

Gym Momentum is …

A place to pick up a drill
A place to share a drill
A place to share a video of a new skill
A place to tell a funny story
A place to share a review/ report on a competition or training camp

check it out – WELCOME – Today is the official unveiling of Gym Momentum.

I’m subscribed by RSS.

Tony Retrosi is the head coach and owner of Atlantic Gymnastics. He is a popular lecturer at State, Regional, and National Congresses, and also a guest clinician at training camps nationwide. In 2010, Tony was celebrated as USA Gymnastics’ Educator of the Year.

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Just what we need …

… Actually this was just a school project for ex-gymnast Elizabeth Grimsley at University of Georgia.

Some good content: Code, Injuries, Age Limit, etc.

Check it out – Gymnastics Controversies blog

related article by Elizabeth – What If You Were the Best in the World, but Not Allowed to Compete?

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This is what I’ve been waiting for — a blog dedicated to Judging.

It’s called The E Panel.

LloydM began posting in August and already has a lot of interesting and entertaining content.

Here’s one sample.

… what on earth is the point of doing something if it looks so heinous? …

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Subscribe via RSS to The E Panel. Or you can follow those posts on Twitter @TheEpanel.

A non expert, opinion based gymnastics blog: from admiration to condemnation, adoration to irritation and a bit of stupidity.

All that said — I actually like side somi on Beam. It’s different than any other skill.

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