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Stuttgart World Cup Men’s All Around Final Results:

1. Nguyen, Marcel (GER) – 90,232
2. Purvis, Daniel (GBR) – 89,397
3. Belyavskiy, David (RUS) – 89,298
4. Tanaka, Kazuhito (JPN) – 89,097
5. Leyva, Danell (USA) – 88,364
6. Gonzalez, Fabian (ESP) – 87,498
7. Thomas, Kristian (GBR) – 87,365

Click PLAY or watch Kristian Thomas GBR | Yurchenko double pike on YouTube.

NORA SCHULER posted an insightful interview with Wolfgang Willam, unsuccessful candidate for vice president, current Executive Committee member.

Were you surprised that Bruno Grandi was re-elected by such a large majority?

I wasn’t surprised he was re-elected. But it was surprising that it was such a large majority since it was the first time he had two opponents. In this respect it was an impressive result for him personally.

I’m in Senegal, Africa right now. Bruno Grandi is extremely popular here. He’s been tireless in trying to help smaller nations grow FIG sports.

I’m looking forward to what he does in this last mandate, freed from the need to run again in 2016. From his most recent Newsletter (#67):

… the Codes of Points are a priority on my agenda. I am getting a variety and increasing number of signals telling me to revisit the format and handling of our competitions, which no longer meet the needs of our public. This is of utmost importance …

These are either elite gymnasts trying to learn some choreography. … Or a Gymnastraeda group on holiday in Mexico.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

For Katelyn Ohashi.

Valeri Liukin:

… refused to link Ohashi’s name with the 2016 Olympics, saying instead that he prefers to take things one year at a time. …

“Of course Katelyn is a very talented gymnast. She’s not little anymore — next year she’ll be eligible for the World Championships,” Liukin said when asked to evaluate her talent. “Her senior career will start next year, so we’ll be getting ready for Worlds.” …

Examiner – two minute chat with Valeri Liukin

For Nastia, it’s only 100.

Friends who visited WOGA recently tell that Nastia looks in great shape. Still, qualifying for the American team is a long shot. I’d say she’d need to be top 3 Bars and Beam to be selected.

(via USAG on Facebook)

A gymnastics dance performance from Oakville in Ontario, Canada is HIGHLY entertaining.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

In progress …

Italian Grand Prix:

BARS
Komova 15,7
Iordache 14,15
Campana 13,6

BEAM
Komova 14,85
Ponor 14,7
Preziosa 14,3

Full Twist

Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images AsiaPac

Tokyo:

Asian gymnasts swept the titles Saturday at the first day of the Toyota International in Japan. Japan won four gold medals, while Vietnam and Korea each picked up a title. …

IG – Asian Gymnasts Dominate Day 1 at Toyota Cup

Acapulco, Mexico:

International Gymnast Magazine on Facebook:

After the first day of competition, the results are:

Women–1. Afanaseva RUS, 2. Lee CAN, 3. Yamagishi JPN, 4. Little AUS.
Men–1. Purvis GBR, 2. Girlado COL, 3. Leyva USA, 4. Khorokhordin RUS

Peng Peng (hit 4/4) & Leyva won the “partner competition”. They had an earthquake before Danell had fnished!

Welcome to the Jungle

Highlights from the 2011 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships MAG Event Finals.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s by RedNasvw who has more good stuff on his YouTube channel.

Disappointed that none of the Japanese teams performed at Gymnaestrada 2011, I was extremely happy to see this performance before the awards of the Junior Japan International, September 24th in Yokohama

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Incredible talent, synchronicity and showmanship.

That was the highlight of the day’s competition for me.

On my Recreation Gymnastics blog I make the argument that Montreal should be the first North American host of the World Gymnaestrada:

• a bilingual city with easy, inexpensive access for Europeans
• Cirque du Soleil might partner
• Gymnaestrada in Europe is not growing
• the event needs to modernize, North America would help
• Canada has a strong and growing Gymnastraeda base
• Gymnastics Canada strongly supports the event

Lausanne, Switzerland 2011

Click through for the details … especially the part on why it won’t happen any time soon.

RecGymnastics.com – Canada should host World Gymnaestrada

I’m still looking for contributors for RecGymnastics.com.

USAG has been generous in posting many of the Jr. Women’s routines on their YouTube channel. … But for some reason decided against posting Sr. Women night 1 competition.

Click PLAY or watch Katelyn’s Bars on YouTube.

One concern I had on arrival at World Gymnaestrada 2011 was safety of the participants.

With no competition, no awards on the line, you’d think there would be comparatively few injuries.

Yet I saw many people there in casts. And a few in wheelchairs.

This girl was injured 2 days before travel to Switzerland. (She came with her group, anyway.)

In Switzerland this summer, 154 people (as an example) were treated on Wednesday, July 13th, with 19 people evacuated that day to hospitals for small trauma (sprains, strains, etc.).

Organizers had 82 medical staff on duty each day to care for the 19,000+ on site.

Overall, I felt Gymnaestrada performances were fairly safe. One Acrobatic Gymnast from Portugal had a bad fall on a double back. He was taken out in a stretcher, the worst injury I saw personally.

Next day a Canadian Acrobatic gymnast (who was also showing double back) told me that he was OK.

(via Rec Gymnastics)

I emailed James Parent from Tumbl Trak for advice on what kind of air floor to provide in a Gymnaestrada show for 2012.

He suggested the Air Floor Pro.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Mark Folger and Marvin Sharp give endorsements.

I like it, especially because this air floor system has no noisy electric blower. And can quickly be moved and reconfigured by different teams.

… Of course I LOVE the alternate use shown in the video, a quick-to-set-up John Carney Tower of Power.

details – Tumbl Trak Air Floor Pro

Tumbl Trak will have a booth, as usual, at National Congress.

Do you know the name?

He was the first president of the European Gymnastics Union, eventually evolving into the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).

He started all this July 23, 1881, 130yrs-ago today.

Cupérus held the post of President for 43yrs, perhaps the only FIG President to have made more changes than our current leader, Bruno Grandi.

Cupérus argued with Pierre de Coubertin against the idea of bringing back the Olympic Games. Cupérus felt that events like Gymnaestrada would better serve health, fitness and peaceful relations between nations:

“… I dream of the day when competitions will be superfluous, when gymnasts will compete for the infallible prize of their own effort, the exact equivalent in health, strength, flexibility, tenacity.”

Later he was to concede to the majority opinion, and join the Olympic movement:

“I admit defeat, and accept mankind and the things of this life as they are”.

The first FIG international competition took place in 1903 in Antwerp.

Read more about this little known history on FIG – History of the World Gymnaestrada

Here’s the monument to the great man, in his home town of Anvers, Belgium.

(via FIG)