Entries Tagged 'beam' ↓

Brigid bemoans boring mounts. And identifies a few terrific ones:

… Peng Peng Lee’s awesome Homma-variation mount, Dorina Boczogo’s high rated Rankin mount, Ana Porgras’s jump to split and Vanessa Ferrari’s traditional show of brute strength with her planche mount …

read more – Interesting Beam Mounts

Click PLAY or watch Dorina on YouTube.

She’s gorgeous. Watch her Olympics 2008 Beam here. Or a montage titled … How come I have never heard of this incredible gymnast before??!! … here.

On Couch Gymnast’s Facebook, Simone Alexander linked to Sarah Lauren’s “side somi” mount on Beam at the 2001 Aussie Nationals.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Slovenia’s Maja Hribar may have competed that in 2001, as well. Here’s a training video.

Leave a comment if you’ve seen other gymnasts compete anything like a side somi mount.

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Dean Potter:

“I am completely confident with my ability to catch the line if I were to fall.

Highlining at Cathedral Peak, Yosemite, California
Photograph by Mikey Schaefer

This shot is just one spectacular scene from “The Man Who Can Fly,” an episode of Explorer airing Sunday, February 12, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. The show captures Potter’s quest for true human flight, with first feats in free soloing and wing suit flying in Yosemite, California, and British Columbia, Canada. …

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Casey Jo left Capital Gymnastics (and her boyfriend) to accept a coaching position at Western Michigan. So far, so good. Follow her blog.

Training hasn’t suffered.

[Flash 10 is required to watch video]

That’s posted on her Facebook Fan page, or go to the video directly if you’d like to comment. See more videos on her YouTube channel.

related – Gymnastike interview after her team’s 2nd highest score ever.

(via Inner Monoblog and Couch Gymnast)

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A really, REALLY bad idea.

I can’t embed this wipe-out. Click through to YouTube, if you dare.

Thanks George. I think.

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Oh no.

SHOCK! Ana Porgras withdraw only 18! World Champion in 2010 and a beam of hope for gold in London gave up gymnastics

That’s the headline on Sport.ro.

The 2010 World Champion on Beam made the decision after an elbow injury at a Christmas training camp in France.

Read the article via Google Translate.

She won the 2011 Longines Prize Of Elegance in Tokyo. This is a terrible loss for Team Romania, especially on Bars. And for gymnastics fans everywhere.

Update – the Prosport interview translated by Fangymnastics:

From the moment I made this decision there is no turning back. I said stop and I’m not coming back.

(via Fangymnastics on Facebook)

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Not many predicted Italy would be the #1 team. (Eric did.)

They won Floor as a team. Ferrari had the highest AA. … But the big reason was the margin (PDF) by which they won Beam as a team.

Watch their highest Beam score, Carlotta FERLITO on YouTube.

14.533 (Difficulty : 6.00, Execution : 8.533).

Click PLAY or watch Francesca D’Agostini on YouTube. 14.525

Slightly over-scored, I’d say.

But a win’s a win. Italy did a fantastic job.

Their Men grabbed the last team qualification spot with a strong performance, too.

I got those links from Between the Olympics, the best page to find routines from London.

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#FIGTest12 … you assumed this post was about the great mustachioed Tomás González. Nope.

CONGRATULATIONS to Simona Castro.

… University of Denver junior gymnast Simona Castro (Santiago, Chile) made history on her 23rd birthday, becoming the first Chilean woman to qualify for a gymnastics spot in the Olympic Games …

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Click PLAY or watch her Beam from qualifying on YouTube.

GREAT SAVE Simona. And thanks to Coach Carl Leland for introducing me. This is going to be an awesome Olympics for Chile.

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photo montage by Grace Chiu

See the original on Facebook.

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An excellent edit from FIG.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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Have I got this right?

Illusion directly to scale has been rated an E-part in the American J.O. Code and was named after Lane Jarred.

Click PLAY or watch Lane on YouTube.

Or will it be named after Medvitz?

Click PLAY or watch Nicole Medvitz on YouTube. (45sec)

2011 JR D JO National Beam Champion 9.7

(via nawgj.org)

I don’t have a J.O. Code. Please ejukate me.

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From Spanny Tampson.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

iLitter added the background.

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Coach Kazukuni Ohno on Facebook claims their girls training quad and quintuple turns are tearing the Beam cover.

original photo on Facebook

That’s Iketani Gymnastics Club in Japan.

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For the 8 teams fighting for 4 team spots in the 2012 Olympics, now’s the time for things to go right.

Italy just finished a “trial” for the January Test Meet.

Couch Gymnast:

… Italy’s bid for a place in the Olympic Team competition is looking all the stronger for the addition of two new seniors this year. …

The meet was dominated by two Italian up-and-comers, Erika Fasana and Francesca Deagostini. Fasana’s AA score was 57.6. Francesca Deagostini recently impressed with her beautiful beam work at the Italian Grand Prix Event. She achieved the top score there. …

See scores and commentary.

Click PLAY or watch Francesca Deagostini’s Beam from the Grand Prix on YouTube.

… In sad news, Serena Licchetta, 2009 and 2010 World Team member has torn an ACL again and will not be able to vie for the Olympic spot. …

Bars is the weak apparatus.

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