There’s plenty of women’s Collegiate commentary online this year. But my favourite has been the new Balance Beam Situation blog:
LIVE Friday, Feb. 10th:
… Over in Florida, Marissa King got a 9.725 on vault, so there’s no point to continue living. Alaina Johnson goes 9.950, so they’ll manage to get along somehow…They end up dropping King’s score and counting a 9.800 from Spicer. …
… Okay, we have to talk about Ashanee Dickerson going into the 9.9s on bars for the second time in a row at home…
… AH! Hunter goes 9.975 (and breaks 9.9 on all three of her events)- so Florida scores 49.625 on floor and ends with a new season record of 197.850.
In the news, Brianna Brown of CGA has verballed to Georgia. This is not a surprise given the discussion a while back about Jay getting himself on board the CGA train in a big old way. Since Whitcomb, Jetter, and Williams were already spoken for, it was assumed he would be courting Brown and Hundley. Priessman is in a different boat since elite success in the next quad may alter her NCAA trajectory. …
Georgia records a strong 49.275 on vault, led by Ding’s 9.900. This is the pace they need to go over 197 this week (which should be the goal), but they will hope to go higher on bars, where they have a little more 9.9 potential. …
Ack – Shayla has another issue on bars for Georgia (it’s always something), meaning they will count Tanella’s 9.750 – opening the door for Arkansas who scored 49.300 on vault. Kat Ding saves the day, so Georgia scores a respectable 49.175 and maintain the lead over Arkansas by .250. …
The goal is to swing to invert cross position as efficiently as possible. The kids need learn to keep the shoulders low.
See the interesting trench pit at 7min 30sec.
Great stuff. Exactly what Edouard Iarov, former Men’s National Coach of Canada, recommends. Delay the gymnasts going for handstand until they are able to keep arms relatively straight.
This site is must follow for all serious MAG coaches. Both coaches are on twitter.
… You know what you can do? Stop sharing things you don’t want tracked. …
Before and after March 1st best advice is not to do anything online you’ll regret in future. Somebody, somewhere could be tracking it. And it probably won’t be Google. They’re one of the least evil players.
If you want to dig into this deeper, the best authority is Jeff Jarvis. He’s the author of:
On Gymnastike, Anne commented on some NCAA schools using a 3rd party service called Varsity Monitor to follow their team online.
They flag “questionable conduct“.
That’s a bit scary. But I suspect Universities are mainly worried about what their high profile basketball and football players say. Gymnasts are probably the least of their worries.
#FIGTest12 Gimnasia Latina, based out of Buenos Aires, is here at the London Test Meet.
For now they publish only in Spanish. But I get every post sent to me Google translated into English. Here’s a sample:
The Spanish team gymnastics arrived yesterday in London to participate on Tuesday, in the pre-Olympic tournament that will distribute the final berths for the 2012 London event, marked on the calendar of these athletes for four years. …
… Jesus Carballo emphasizes the preparation of all hard selected. “This tournament is novel. So far, after the World Cup, the gymnasts down the intensity of your workouts, but this year has maintained a high level of demand “, which even led them to train hard during Christmas. …
