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If planking was too idiotic. Batmanning too dangerous, perhaps your goof is leisure diving.

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Mail Online – Just hangin’ by the pool: Summer posers caught mid-air in new photography craze

Thanks for the tip, Danielle.

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To this day, my most popular “gymnastics video” on YouTube is an embarrassing edit of coaches splashing into a pool.

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In less than a year, the former Olympic gymnast, Amy Chow, has gone from a recreational diver to possibly qualifying for Olympic trials.

Here’s what she’s doing for fun.

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Magnificent talent.

Olympian Amy Chow dives into a new challenge :

Former Olympic gold-medal gymnast from Castilleja and Stanford has resurfaced as a doctor and a potential elite diver …

… The former gymnast-turned-pole vaulter is now a diver with unlimited potential, but with limited time. Chow is competing in the Zone D qualification meet, Friday through Sunday, in Tucson, Ariz. There, a top-12 finish would qualify her for the AT&T National Championships in Los Angeles on Aug. 9-14. From there, the next step would be the 2012 Olympic Trials.

‘That’s a very big step for Chow, who is now 33 and just celebrated her one-year wedding anniversary on July 10 with Dr. Jason Ho, an orthopedic surgeon. Chow works in pediatrics …

“I’ve coached some of the best (divers) in the U.S.,” (coach) Schavone said, “and no one has trained tower like this.”

During a training session on March 6 at Stanford, Chow plunged off the tower some 26 times. Schavone said that’s unheard of for an American diver.

“I can’t imagine anyone but the Chinese doing that,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like that.” …

Palo Alto online

Brigid linked to the story on Facebook.

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London 2012 Olympics to air in 3D

Panasonic plans to distribute more than 10 hours of 3D Games footage each day from a pool of broadcasters …

… The opening and closing ceremonies will be broadcast in 3D, as will more than 12 sports …

Guardian

Athletics, gymnastics, diving and swimming will be included. My eyes are blurry already.

(via Double Front)

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Sky Corbett-Methot was a Canadian National Team member. At a training camp a week before nationals 2009, she was injured on a vault landing.

In this Gymn.ca exclusive, she opens up about the heart break of injury and later finding success in a new sport! …

Gymn.ca: When and how did you discover diving?

… My favorite thing about gymnastics was the flipping. So while I was recovering from my crushed knee I thought to myself “what other sport can I flip in and not hurt my knees in?” …

The biggest adjustment of switching from gymnastics to diving would be the standard attempt to “stick it” in gym to landing headfirst. …

read the rest of the interview on Gymn.ca – Sky Corbett-Methot

Sky dive

After a very short career as a diver, Sky accepted an NCAA scholarship to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Congratulations.

MR Times – Athlete swaps out gym for pool

A dream has come true for a Hammond diver who always wanted to compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association

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Links from FIG Communications Manager Meike Behrensen via email:

A total of 505 Chinese athletes from 110 universities will arrive in Shenzhen on August 5 to compete in the 26th World University Games …

China vowed to maintain domination in the Universiade …

More than 12,000 athletes and officials from 180 countries and regions will compete in the Universiade from August 12-23 …

China Daily

athletes village

For the first time in Universiade history, FISU, the governing body of international university sport, will have live streaming on its TV website www.fisu.tv.

related – Rome, Madrid and Tokyo have announced they will bid for the 2020 Olympics. The deadline is September for any other cities to join the race.

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The Airrosti Rehab Centers are a chain with the goal of relieving pain as quickly as possible in order to get athletes back training.

U.S. Men’s Olympic Gymnastics Coach Kevin Mazeika …

To give their gymnasts a competitive edge, reduce lost training time due to injuries, and provide the most state-of-the-art sports recovery care for their athletes, the Houston Gymnastics Academy, headed by the U.S. Men’s Olympic Gymnastics coach Kevin Mazeika, has entered into an agreement with the Airrosti Center.

“The Airrosti treatment provides exactly what we need in our sport – rapid recovery. Whether an athlete has an acute or chronic injury, Airrosti’s goal is synonymous with ours, to get the athlete back to training or competition as soon as possible. Thank you Airrosti!”

Kevin Mazeika – 2004 U.S. Men’s Olympic Gymnastics Team Head Coach

Here’s a testimonial by gymnast turned Olympic gold medalist diver Laura Wilkinson.

Olympic Gold Medalist Laura Wilkinson from Airrosti.

This sounds great to me. I wish we had one in my city.

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From Alan Owen on Facebook:

A new website, I-G.TV, funded by the Federation Sports Ministry in Russia has just opened. This website will provide live streaming events of regional gymnastics and diving competitions in Russia to the world. Previously during trials I-G.TV broadcasted the Voronin Memorial but most visitors from outside Russia couldn’t connect reliably. Hopefully, with the website officially opening yesterday, the streaming issues have been resolved and we can watch the events live online! We will have to wait until the next competition, which will be the Russian-Chinese games.

The website is located at http://www.i-g.tv/.

“The whole range of opportunities offered by the world of gymnastics and diving presented on the I-G.TV portal will be useful both for beginners and professionals. The web-cameras installed in gyms and swimming pools will enable I-G.TV visitors to watch on-line competitions in different parts of the world. Parents will see their children in the process of training. Russian gymnastic and diving stars will share their valuable experience and give advice. The best coaches will offer their master-classes and video trainings, and Olympic champions will give their recommendations on performance of any elements of interest to you. On-line consultations of leading sports doctors and psychologists will be also organized on the portal. Apart from that, the portal is of unique nature because it grants to athletes an opportunity to share their skills and new achievements. To this end, it’s enough to download your video on the I-G.TV portal, so that visitors could vote. Top athletes chosen by the audience and the sports stars will be awarded a prize established by I-G.TV.” You can also find interviews with coaches such as Leonid Arkaev and Alexei Nemov.

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Do you know the WAS ??

This year’s inductees are:

Gerald George – Lifetime Achievement
Lori Aamodt – Trampoline/Tumbling
Larry Banner – Contributor
Dominique Dawes – Artistic Gymnastics
Chad Fox – Trampoline/Tumbling
Bruce Frederick – Contributor (Posthumous)
Ken Kovach – Professional Acrobatics
Dana Kunze – Diving
Realis Duo – Acrobatic Gymnastics (Shenea Booth and Arthur Davis)
Karl Schier – Lifetime Achievement
Sean Tucker – Extreme Sports

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The World Acrobatics Society (WAS) is a non-profit organization …

… a world-wide organization for the advancement of education, communication and cooperation among all individuals and organizations interested in fostering the growth development and safety of the various acrobatics sports and preserving their histories.

Acrobatics as defined by WAS are those activities which feature aerial rotation (somersaulting and twisting) and balancing of the body (handstands and other balances with and without partners or groups).

Major acrobatic disciplines recognized by the Society include Acrobatic Gymnastics & Cheerleading; Diving (Olympic events & professional divers); Extreme Sports (freestyle skiers & skateboarders); Gymnastics (Olympic artistic gymnastics for men and women); Professional Performers (Hollywood stunt people and circus entertainers); Trampoline & Tumbling; Contributors (teachers, writers, publishers, manufacturers, coaches, judges and innovators). …

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Scared of heights? England’s Gary Hunt dives 27 metres into Lake Vouliagmeni in the third event of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series

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… Those of us baby boomer divers will fondly remember ABC’s Wide World of Sports annual presentation of high diving competitions, especially the shows from the cliffs of Acapulco where daredevil divers had to launch themselves out far off slippery slopes in order to clear the jagged mountainside. The event favorite Mexican team divers always selected the classic ‘arched’ swan dive to the raucous applause of the home crowd.

Now fast forward 35 years later to an event that is in its’ third season and makes the cliffs of Acapulco look like a novice event. It’s the Red Bull Cliff Diving Series now taking place in exotic locales all over the world. …

Diving Examiner – Red Bull Cliff Diving Series Thrills Athens Greece Crowd

Here’s a good profile on up-and-coming Cliff Diver, Gary Hunt from the U.K.

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Gary’s pushing the world’s greatest Cliff Diver, Orlando Duque from Colombia, by trying new dives like quintuple front barani out. And multiple twisting quad back somersaults.

Needless to say, it hurts when you miss from 27m – or 88.5ft.

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Read an update on what happened at the recent Summer Nationals.

Edmonton Journal – Sehn takes care of business

related – flipnrip.com, a good Diving News site. Or (easier) LIKE out their Facebook page.

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Utah’s Greg Marsden linked to this video of his now co-Head Coach wife, Megan McCunniff, winning the Collegiate championships.

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He saw that linked by Blythe Lawrence:

Fun fact: Many — actually, most — of the country’s top NCAA coaches were once college gymnasts themselves.
Funner fact: Some of their routines (and even fluff pieces) are available on Youtube. …

Tanya (Service) Chaplin
Dana (Dobransky) Duckworth
Rhonda Faehn
Kristen Smyth
Kristen Maloney
Tabitha Yim

Continue reading on Examiner.com: And now for something completely different…

Update: Greg linked her second win – Getting to Know Megan Marsden – (VIDEO), too.

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Tom Trapp, by the way, is the new Diving Examiner:

USA Diving announced today the coaching staff for the 2011 FINA World Diving Championships to be held this July in Shanghai, China. Leading the team as Head Coach will be Drew Johansen, Coach at Duke University. His position was earned based on his divers Nick McCrory and Abby Johnston making the team in 3 events. …

World Championship Team Coaches Selected

Tom was inspired by Blythe Lawrence, Gymnastics Examiner.

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Tom Trapp:

Canadian ‘Synchro Sisters’ Strike Gold at FINA Grand Prix Meet.

The Canadian 10 meter synchronized National team duo of Carol-Ann and Pamela Ware struck gold at the 2011 USA Diving International Grand Prix held May 5 – 8 at the Hall of Fame Aquatic complex next to the beach in Ft. Lauderdale FL.This is one of the most popular venues for elite divers as after your event is over, it’s a 5 minute walk to the Atlantic for some tanning and body surfing!

The sister pair had a great 5 dive event defeating the USA team of high school students, Anna James of Midland TX and 2008 Olympian Mary Beth Dunnichay, by 6 points.The bronze went to the German team of Steuer and Subchinski.

The Canadian Diving Association sent a smaller team than the number that participated in last weeks Canada Cup giving several divers a well deserved rest.

This was the only medal for Canada in the meet but at least it was the right color!

On the men’s side, the only finalists were Kevin Geyson and Eric Sehn who placed 8th in the Men’s 10 meter synchro.

Next up for the Canadian National Team will be the continuation of the Grand Prix series to be held in Germany, May 27 to 29.

Full results at divemeets.com

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