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Meet Brianna, who is a fabulous gymnast, an inspired coach, a gym ‘mom’ and profoundly deaf. In her short life she has been all of these things and much more. …

Couch Gymnast Brigid McCarthy interview:

… I can always remember loving gymnastics. As a kid I loved flipping in the air and the feeling when I learned a new drill. I also loved the sparkly leos and having my mom do my hair for meets. Of course getting ribbons and seeing my friends every day at practice was fun too! …

I competed level 10 all through middle school. I qualified to Nationals twice and some of the coaches in my area wanted me to train elite. …

One of the hardest things is that using ASL (American Sign Language), … (no) words for gymnastics terms. … (skills) are finger spelled (Like “Geinger”). So we invented some of our own signs for things we used in gymnastics all the time. On the other hand, sign is great for showing how a drill needs done since it’s so visual. …

Brianna’s Story, Part One

Wow. What a life story. What a success story:

… I was able to succeed, not as that Deaf girl who is good at gymnastics, but just that girl who is good at gymnastics. I earned it all on my own and I love that. …

When Brianna started Rec, her Mom had her pretend not to be deaf. To be treated just like every other girl.

… At thirteen I was furious with my mom for not letting me move in with another family to board or better yet, switching jobs so our family could move. Now I understand why she did what she did. We lost my dad as a victim of a drunk driving accident when me and my sister were little. My mom didn’t want to send me away and split up our family. …

Brianna’s Story, Part Two

She goes by the handle bribri514 on Chalk Bucket forum.

related – gymnastics – a sport for deaf kids

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Athletes from 16 countries will compete in the 2012 Kellogg’s® Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, March 16-18, Everett, Washington … near Seattle.

Friday, March 16
10 a.m. – Rhythmic Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 1)
1:30 p.m. – Women’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 1)
3 p.m. – Rhythmic Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 2)
7 p.m. – Women’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 2)

Saturday, March 17
1:30 p.m. – Men’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 1)
3 p.m. – Rhythmic Individual Event Finals
7 p.m. – Men’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 2)

Sunday, March 18
9 a.m. – Trampoline Junior Team Competition
11:30 a.m. – Trampoline Senior Team Competition
12 p.m. – Men’s & Women’s Junior Individual Event Finals
4 p.m. – Trampoline Individual Event Finals
6 p.m. – Men’s & Women’s Senior Individual Event Finals
7 p.m. – Synchronized Trampoline Competition

USAG

Blythe Lawrence will be there for Examiner. She’s from Seattle.

… The inclusion of six of the top eight potential Olympic teams on the women’s side and Japan, China, Russia and the U.S. going head-to-head on the men’s makes this meet a bona fide Olympic dress rehearsal. …

Lauren Hopkins will be there for The Couch Gymnast. I’ll be there, too. I’m particularly interested in this opportunity:

In conjunction with the 2012 Kellogg’s Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, USA Gymnastics is offering two days of coaching, judging and business educational opportunities during the event at the Tulalip Resort. To attend for free, you will need to show your Pacific Rim Championships event ticket.

details

Jim Jarrett, Quin Shannon, Susan Jacobson, & Linda Metheny Mulvihill are a few of the presenters.

more information & tickets

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Gymnasts competing in the Nastia Liukin Cup qualify through one of the invitational meets included in the Nastia Liukin Cup Series, which spans from mid-January through late February. …

USAG

7:30 p.m. March 2nd – tickets on sale now

homepage

Watch a GK Elite promo video from the meet last year.

It’s being held in conjunction with the “American Cup”.

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She’s the most powerful tumbler of the international elites, so far as I’m concerned.

Click PLAY or watch her on Gymnastike.

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

Always suspecting Ali won’t make U.S. teams due to Bars, I’ve been wrong each time, so far.

She’s tough and durable. Having gone ‘pro’, I really do hope she makes the Olympic team. I’ll be in San Jose for trials.

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Here we are at rural Brinnon Elementary.

Instruction was provided by Carrie Lennox of Jefferson County Parks & Rec who was there 4 days. Fun and fitness in a safe but challenging environment. A mobile program.

We dropped in (and trained) at the Twisters Adult class in Port Renfrew.

Here’s Carrie’s regular “Kid Fit” Parks & Rec class in Port Townsend, a set-up, take-down facility. She’s worked closely with Tumbl Trak for years.

First day in the program for this lad:

Again, the goal is high activity in a fun, safe environment. Rather than put little kids up high on a rope, why not have them sliding on the floor? Fun … and much safer.

I’ll post details on each of those programs on Rec Gymnastics over the coming week.

John Smith at NASA Gymnastics is genius at coming up with drills for Team. We got plenty of video.

The biggest news at Tumbl Trak is that they have a viral video — nearly 600,000 views. You can’t buy that kind of publicity.

Check the Tumbl Trak February 2012 newsletter. Subscribe FREE by emailing newsletter {a} tumbltrak.com.

Tumbl Trak is a valued sponsor of this site. Their corporate mission is exactly in line with my own coaching philosophy.

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This is a montage of all the two most difficult categories of skills in the men’s code.

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… a basic roll routine used on a daily basis with our gymnasts.

Many coaches have their own variations of this routine but these routines generally include many back extension rolls to handstand, with 1/2 turn and full turns.

Depending on the age and ability of the gymnast these rolls can be simplified …

GymnasticsPlanet.co.uk

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

New tag line for this new MAG site:

… News, Techniques & Discussions from the World of Gymnastics

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Click over to Gymnastics Planet to comment – New Floor Skill from Kieran Behan (IRE)

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