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This video was taken at a clinic at (one of my former clubs), Can-Am in Saskatoon. It was the early 1990s. Her coach was Mr. B, an “acrosport” specialist. The clinician at this event was Yuval Ayalon.

She has the perfect name – Jacki Bender.

Click PLAY or watch Jacki on YouTube.

Clearly Jacki had the skills of an Acrobatic gymnast. … We should look for Beam specialists in future with this skill set.

(via 80sgymfan on IG forum)

At our Vegas clinic, interim Head Coach Dana Brass brought in a (former gymnast) circus handstand specialist to work with all of the older gymnasts.

Some of the contenders mentioned on a selecious IG forum thread:

Komova, Hadarean, Gogean, Liukin, Patterson, Lysenko.

… she used it to win her second straight national title …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That comes from Andy Thornton’s American Gymnast blog – Women’s Top Five Routines…Visa Championships

There are a number of wrap-ups on the Youth Olympic Games.

Gymnastics – No Ceiling posted videos of 10 of the best performances at the YOG.

One of the biggest surprises was Guatemala’s Ana Sofia Gomez Porras on Beam. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That was also posted on Amy’s The All Around tumblr blog.

Watch Beam Finals highlights on the official YOG YouTube channel.

Click PLAY or watch the endlessly entertaining Alicia Sacramone on YouTube.

I didn’t vomit anywhere out of nerves …

Artistic Gymnastics has concluded.

China’s Tan Sixin was the STAR of the final day of Finals.

Floor: 1. Tan (CHN) 2. Bulimar (ROU) 3. Komova (RUS)
Beam: 1. Tan (CHN) 2. Ferlito (ITA) 3. Donald … Komova 7th (2 falls)

Vault: 1. Ganbat (MGL) 2. Arican (TUR) 3. Abad (ESP)
Parallel Bars: 1. Stepko (UKR) 2. Muntean (ROU) 3. Edalli (ITA)
High Bar: 1. Oldham (GBR) 2. Abad (ESP) 3. Zhu (CHN)

via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook

Congratulations to IOC, FIG and meet organizers. I’m astonished how smoothly the Artistic discipline has gone. In fact, the Games themselves seem to be a big WIN for Olympic sport.

Who?

… You know, the girl who shares the podium with Viktoria Komova and Tan Sexin.

Couch Gymnast:

… look at that whole mount sequence! I mean, it’s great. The way she kicks up into that split handstand and bends the foot down to her head? The way she fluidly shifts back and raises herself to her feet up on her toes? …

WHAT’S CARLOTTA GOT …..?

Click PLAY or watch Carlotta’s beam on YouTube.

My favourite gymnastics photographer is in Singapore. She’s posting a few pics on Facebook. Eventually all will go up on her site GraceClick.ca

WAG Podium Training Subdivision 2: TAN Sixin, CHN — … Podium Training Champion

2010 Visa Championships
Junior Women’s Day 2 Final Results

… Kyla Ross won her second consecutive U.S. junior national all-around title at the 2010 Visa Championships at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn.

Ross scored a two-day all-around total of 116.450, clinching the beam title at 29.90 …

Women’s All-Around
1. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 116.450
2. Katelyn Ohashi, Plano, Texas, 114.300
3. McKayla Maroney, Laguna Niguel, Calif., 113.250
4. Gabrielle Douglas, Virginia Beach, Va., 112.750
5. Madison Kocian, Dallas, Texas, 112.100
6. Sarah Finnegan, Lake Latawanna, Mo., 111.350
7. Sabrina Vega, Carmel, N.Y., 110.600
8. McKenzie Wofford, McKinney, Texas, 110.300

Women’s Vault
1. McKayla Maroney, Laguna Niguel, Calif., 32.000
2. Lexie Priessman, Cincinnati, Ohio, 31.200
3. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 30.450

Women’s Uneven Bars
1. Katelyn Ohashi, Plano, Texas, 28.550
2. McKenzie Wofford, McKinney, Texas, 27.950
3. Madison Kocian, Dallas, Texas, 27.900

Women’s Balance Beam
1. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 29.900
2. Gabrielle Douglas, Virginia Beach, Va., 28.550
3. Ericha Fassbender, Katy, Texas, 28.450

Women’s Floor Exercise
1. Sarah Finnegan, Lake Latawanna, Mo., 29.200
2. Sabrina Vega, Carmel, N.Y., 28.900
3. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 28.500

USAG – Ross repeats as Junior U.S. National Champion at the 2010 Visa Championships

Montage by Yangyun4ever.

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Love it.

Katelyn Ohashi on beam during podium training at the 2010 US National Championships.

photo by USAG – more photos of podium training

(via Gymtage)

Looks very efficient, not easy when you have so many good kids.

… Coaches Chris Burdette and Kim Zmeskal-Burdette will have 6 gymnasts representing Texas Dreams next week in Hartford at the 2010 US Championships.

They have 5 junior elite qualifiers: Kennedy Baker, Dare Maxwell, Claire Boyce, Ashton Kim, and Peyton Ernst (Kiana Winston qualified but won’t compete due to injury). Their lone senior elite is former national team member Chelsea Davis who will be competing in her first major national competition since the 2008 Olympic Trials. Watch how former World Champion and Olympian Kim Zmeskal-Burdette prepares her athletes for US Nationals, a meet she herself has won numerous times. …

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

Check an interview posted on Couch Gymnast magazine with the legendary Romanian beam coach:

What would you like to change about the current Code of Points?

In my opinion judging in general has become too strict. Even small wobbles are heavily penalised and gymnasts are denied the chance to achieve high scores.

I agree.

… which team will win at the upcoming World Championships in Rotterdam? Why?

… Romania, Russia, the USA, China and Great Britain will fight for the first place in Rotterdam. The team who makes the least mistakes will win.

read the rest of Chris’ interview → Maria Gillich-Cosma: “Now or never!“

photo copyright Tom Theobald