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NCAA Gymnastics – superlative skills

Girls competing Full Twisting Double Layout Flyaway this season:

Kylee Botterman, Michigan
Jamie Bullock, Minnesota
Nicole Cowart, Illinois
Taylor Jacob, Boise State
Courtney McCool, UGA
Kara Wright, UNC

That’s a serious dismount. Difficult to stick. And usually not needed to start from 10.0.

Click PLAY or watch Nicole’s (muscled) Bars on Gymnastike.

College Gym Fans posts a list of “superlative” skills each season. Click through to check out the list and make additions / corrections.

They are missing, for example, Brandi’s 1/1 twisting double layout on Floor.

… a listing of high level skills performed by Women in the 2019 Season. To make this list, the skill had to be successfully competed in a meet sometime during the season. The skill competed must have an FIG rating of “E” or “F” or “G”, or an FIG Vault Difficult Value of 5.3 or higher.

European Gymnastics Championships

I like this clip posted by British Gymnastics TV. Those guys are fantastic at gymnastics video.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

April 21st – May 2nd, Birmingham, England

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Henrietta Onodi gymnastics montage

A fan favourite, for sure.

Henrietta is one of five “Gymnastics Legends to be honored by the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame“.

Cathy Rigby (USA) -1970 World Championships, Silver medal on Balance Beam
Henrietta Onodi (HUN) – 1992 Olympic Gold and Silver Medalist
Yuri Korolev (RUS) – 1981 and 1985 World All-Around Champion
Mikhail Voronin (RUS) – Winner of 9 Olympic medals in 1968 and 1972 (deceased)

Eileen Langsley (GBR) will be awarded the International Order of Merit for her contributions as the most prolific photographer of major gymnastics competitions for nearly 30 years.

FIG

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks, yet again, to MunchTheSilivasFan.

Fantastic Yuri Korolev being included. He’s one of my favourite gymnasts of all time.

… Should Cathy Rigby be on that list? How many other World Championships single apparatus Silver medalists have been inducted?

I loved Cathy too, … but is this some sort of pro-American bias on the part of selectors?

World Gymnastics Championships, Rotterdam

The schedule has just been adjusted:

• Saturday, 16th October: Women’s qualifying competition
• Sunday, 17th October: Women’s qualifying competition
• Monday, 18th October: Men’s qualifying competition
• Tuesday, 19th October: Men’s qualifying competition

• Wednesday, 20th October: Women’s team final
• Thursday, 21st October: Men’s team final
• Friday, 22nd October: Men’s and women’s all-round finals
• Saturday, 23rd October: Women’s event finals (vault, bars); men’s event finals (floor, pommel horse, rings)
• Sunday, 24th October: Women’s event finals (beam, floor); men’s event finals (vault, bars, high bar)

… Tickets will go on sale again in the second half of March. …

FIG – Two more days of competition for 2010 Artistic Worlds!

I’m hoping to attend this time around, the 42nd annual.

Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 - Day Six

Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 - Day Six

gymnastics week in review

The weekly Gymnastics Examiner post is packed with links:

Zhang Nan, Longines, Dynamics Unlimited Gymnastics, Wu Jiani and Li Xuejiu, Fu Bo, Kristina Goryunova, Nastia Liukin & Jared the Subway guy, Grace Taylor, Hollie Vise, Sarah Shire, Dominic Morris, Viktoria Komova, Marissa King, Cameron Rogers, Beth Tweddle, Danusia Francis, … and many more.

new English Champion Danusia Francis

Click through for details – The gymnastics week in review

NCAA Gymnastics Championships season

I don’t know about you … but I’m ready for the “playoffs”.

This Women’s College gymnastics season has been the most exciting in years, but hurry up with the Conference, Regional and National Championships.

Manual on Handstands thinks that one of these 5 teams will win the Team Championships 2010:

Alabama: Not Invincible …
Oklahoma: Can they stay undefeated? …
UCLA: Finding consistency …
Florida: Don’t count them out …
Georgia: Needs a road win …

The winning team at Championships must hit 24 for 24.

UCLA I’d call the favourite. But can they hit 24 routines under pressure?

If you believe in momentum, pick Oklahoma. It seems to be their year.

I think Alabama has a good chance to hit 24 routines. If they do, it will be tough to beat the Tide.

Who do you predict to win? Leave a comment.

Gymnastike has up-to-date team rankings with video links, if you want to compare.

AshleyakaFlipper – final montage

AshleyakaFlipper is a drama queen. But she’s got a superb touch editing gymnastics video.

This is reportedly her last montage ever.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Her computer hard drive crashed, many thousands of video clips lost. I left a comment recommending she sign up for Carbonite or Mozy, the two leading online back-up solutions.

… Is your computer backed-up?

F.I.G. Gymnastics Judging Help

Kudos to Full Twist for turning up an excellent resource for coaches, interpretations on the International Code.

This document called Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Help Desk has the intention to clarify and give examples of the different rules of the FIG WAG Code of Points.

The goal of WTC is to reduce different interpretations of the rules, therefore provide a more objective work of the judges. …

WAG Help Desk

It’s a supplement to the code. Here are samples of the kind of “Help” included:

This document would be useful for any Artistic WAG coach. Download a copy to your computer: WAG Help Desk (PDF)

As a PDF document online, it will be inexpensive and easy to update.

Congratulations to the by FIG WTC for putting this together. Good work.

love Hollie Vise – absofreakinlutely

One of the feel good gymnastics stories of the year. The big comeback of Hollie Vise for Oklahoma. She competed the all-around for the first time in her College career, scoring 39.600.

How sweet after all the troubles she’s known.

Click PLAY or watch Hollie’s Bars on Gymnastike.

(via Aunt Joyce – Ms. Vise If Ya Nasty)

As a trivia side note, when I started my first gymnastics website (for Kyle Shewfelt in 1999), I identified Hollie’s as the best gymnast website online. It’s almost unchanged today, 11yrs-later. I still like it.

Check it out – HollieVise.com

Olympic gymnastics coach Marvin Sharp

Sometimes nice guys finish first.

With the recent success of Bridget Sloan, Coach Marvin Sharp has made a name for himself in the world of elite gymnastics. Marvin talks about how he got started in coaching gymnastics and why he ultimately decided to open his own gym.

Gymnastics Videos on Gymnastike

Marvin is the Head Coach of Sharp’s Gymnastics in Indiana and the personal coach to 2008 Olympians Bridget Sloan and Samantha Peszek. Marvin has been coaching Bridget for 13 years and in October of 2009, he coached Bridget to an individual World All-Around title.

Gymnastike – Get to Know Coach Marvin Sharp

Alabama Gymnastics #1

Top 25 College gymnastics teams.

Sarah Shire #1 NCAA gymnast?

I’m surprised.

Susan Jackson has been atop this list all season. By what mathematics has Sarah overtaken her?

Susan’s not missed a routine all season, so far as I know. This seems an error.

top 25 all-around gymnasts

Update – Quentin explains:

… She seems to have peaked in the RQS time frame climbing up the list rapidly the last month or so. Sarah’s RQS for individual events has her ahead of Susan on BB and FX, tied on UB with Susan being ahead in Vault. The total season average has Susan in the lead 39.525 to 39.358 for Sarah. Vanessa Zamarippa actually has a higher season average than both but is tied for second RQSwise with Susan.

The RQS (Regional Qualifying Score) results in some surprising rankings. Here’s how it’s explained by GymInfo:

… Qualification for regional competition is based on a team’s and an all-around competitor’s six best regular-season-meet scores, of which three must be away. To obtain the regional qualifying score (RQS), the high score is eliminated and the remaining five scores are averaged. …

Therefore, if you have 3 meets away in which you got high scores, your ranking may be higher than if all your highest scores were at home meets.

pole vaulter / gymnast Kelsie Hendry

Pole Vault coaches lurk around gymnastics gyms, eyeing the tallest gymnasts. Awaiting the day those gymnasts want to move on to another sport.

Her former gymnastics coach, Dana Brass, got the good news. Kelsie just finished 6th at World Championships in her new style of vaulting.

Congratulations.

photo via daylife