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Check out their new website, much enhanced with (flash) video.

Don’t miss the feature called IGC TV:

Their 100 acre facility is truly astonishing.

InternationalGymnastics.com

Thanks Nick Blanton.

Now we know what Nastia was talking to Miss Val about when she was out there in December.

Hey everyone! I’m SO excited to announce ONE of my new projects… UCLA GYMNASTICS~Nastia Liukin Summer Camp at UCLA Gymnastics July 15th-18th …

I will be back in LA this Saturday for the UCLA~Utah meet, so come out to the Pauley Pavilion at 4pm to watch a great competition! I’ll be signing autographs with the UCLA Gymnastics Team so I hope to see all you Cali girls & boys out there! XOXO-Nast <3

NastiaLiukin.com

Chris Waller’s GymJam Camp is on as usual in June.

At Woodward Gymnastics Camp, advanced gymnasts regularly try some difficult trapeze stunts, flying from Rings to Horizontal Bar. And back.

UCLA gymnast Anna Li is the best female gymnast I’ve yet seen try it.

Click PLAY or watch Anna on YouTube.

(via Live.Breathe.Love Gymnastics)

How about a promise of a week’s training next summer at gym camp?

Click PLAY or watch the IGC Summer Gymnastics Camp promo on YouTube.

Posted on the Facebook Woodward Camp page.

Courtney Kupets

coach Marvin Sharp ...

Woodward Gymnastics Camp, Pennsylvania

This workout was filmed Monday, September 7th at the Region 3 Optional Training Camp held at Capital Gymnastics in Cedar Park, Texas. The camp was put on by Region 3 Camp Coordinator and Aerial Athletics Coach Heather Schelzer. Camp Coaches included Tammy Biggs, Sean Golden, Tom Koll, and Neil and Patty Resnick.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

More Gymnastics Videos on Gymnastike

Some scheduled for Woodward West Gymnastics Camp 2009:

Igor Vihrovs
Pablo Capote
Kristy Powell
Alicia Sacramone
Brett McClure
Melissa Metcalf
Num Kutz
Guard Young
Doug Boger
Geoff Eaton
Jason Gatson
Jamie Dantzscher
The Platt Brothers
3 Danish National Team Members
Charlie Tamayo
Raj Bhavsar – coming week 11 (August 16-22)
Kerri Strug
Elise Ray
Mircea Badulescu
Jen Hansen
Kiara Nowlin
Aubrey Balkin

This came from a Stick It Media interview with Gymnastics Director Andy Timm.

SiM: What is the best part about your job?

Timm: Making a difference in a kid’s life when they come here. My favorite is the kids that come and are very nervous, and by the end of the week they seem to know everyone and are a changed person. I also love seeing the kids faces when they see their favorite Olympians. It reminds me of the way I felt when I got to go to Fenway and watched the Red Sox play at Fenway for the first time!

SiM: What are some of the highlights you have enjoyed at Woodward West?

Timm: The major highlight for me is that I get to hire some VIPs/Olympians that I grew up with and competed against throughout my career. I grew up with Jason Gatson and get to have him come out here and coach for us. I think out of everyone that comes and visits camp, I usually know the VIPs the best going into it. It is nice to be a part of the sport for so long competing and now I run the best camp in the country. …

Ever seen Charlie Tamayo crash?

I haven’t. Until now.

He’s as skilled as any acrobatic athlete who ever lived.

Click PLAY or watch Charlie Tamayo crash on YouTube.

That’s another of Don Eckert’s great salto cafe videos.

Don, of course, was Andy’s predecessor at Woodward West.

Jacob Small ran into one of the famous gymnasts of all time — Svetlana Boginskaya — at the Springfest Meet hosted by Shenandoah tumblers in Winchester, VA.

I had read that Svetlana had two businesses: “an on-line store of gymnastics attire … and organizing gymnastics summer camps”.

Rumour has it she’s now running, with her husband, a Gourmet Pizzeria in Houston, TX. Though she’s mostly a stay-at-home Mom.

If you want your kids to be coached by Bogi, register them for the Olympia Gymnastics Camp in Waldorf, Maryland.

In a photo from the 2008 camp, that’s Svetlana on the right, Olympian Kerri Strug on the left.

Camp 2009 tentatively set for June 27th – July 1st.

details on the Unique Sports Academy website

related – Kerri Strug at 2008 camp – Olympic gold medalist reflects on experiences

Cuban gymnast Charlie Tamayo might be the most watched male gymnast on the internet.

Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.

What you might not know is that Charlie often hops over the fence into the gym, tightens up his grips, jumps up to do a FULL ring routine.

You can challenge him to the most outlandishly difficult acrobatic feat you can dream up … and he’ll do it first attempt. And add something more difficulty to the sequence.

More videos like this on the Gibson Athletics SaltoCafe YouTube channel.

Charlie was not allowed to try out for the USA Olympic Team 2008. But he’s still hoping to try out for the 2012 Team.

No doubt he’ll be back coaching this summer at Woodward West Camp in California.

UPDATE === linked by apolytongp:

Click PLAY or watch Tumbling up challenge – Charlie vs Daniel on YouTube.

Who is Daniel Bronnenberg?

UPDATE: Daniel is coaching with Charlie. Thanks Don.

Anyone who can tumble with Tamayo is awesome.

USA Gymnastics has an online free database of camps.

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If you are already thinking about summer training options, check it out on the USAG Camp Directory.

You can add your own camp to the list for free, too.

I’m a regular coach at this summer camp in Calgary, Canada. Unfortunately, I will not make it for the Christmas camp. But it’s highly recommended.

Mountain Shadows Gymnastics Christmas Camp 2008

December 28th, 29th & 30th

Provincial 1 & 2 Gymnasts 9:00am-12:30pm
(may include 1 evening session Dec 29th, 6-8pm)

(10.5 hours) $105.00 or $45.00/day
Provincial 3-5 Gymnasts 1:30pm-5:00pm & 6:00pm-8:00pm (16.5 hours)
$150.00 or $60.00/day

Mountain Shadows Gym Club
18 Crystalridge Drive
Okotoks, Alberta
T1S 2C3

If you have any questions please call us at (403) 938-0496 or email at msrc @ telus.net.

My gym invited another — Gymtastics — over on a Sunday to train “together”.

We mixed the kids from the two gyms together as best we could.

It was a mini-training camp with all gymnasts getting 7 half hour rotations, each with a different coach.

NOON – WARM-UP = 15min

12:15 – BARS
12:45 – TUMBLING (rod floor)
1:15 – ARTISTIC PREP (dance studio)
1:45 – FLEXIBILITY for Beam (beam area)

BREAK – 15min

2:00 – BEAM
2:30 – VAULT and Yurchenko on Power Track
3:15 – DANCE THROUGH FLOOR ROUTINES
4:00 – MASSAGE

4:30 – CONTESTS
4:45 – STRETCH DOWN

5:00 PM FINISH

Students came in to gain practicum hours in Sports Massage.

At no extra cost to the families, with this training camp we had a “special event” on the calendar. Feedback was good from the gymnasts. (Coaches were challenged to do many rotations on the same apparatus, however.)

Our boys are training at two other clubs in December.

Head Coach Randy McMullen sent me a few photos of the very successful 2008 camp in northern Saskatchewan, Canada.

Host Prince Albert Aerials