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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.

Founder and Creative Director of SportMusic.com, Alex Goldstein from Russia, created music for Yelena Davydova, Masha Filatova, Natalya Shaposhnikova and Nellie Kim, amongst others.

They have READY-TO-USE music for Floor routines. ($75) … But it’s free to listen to the full version.

Even better, I think, is their CUSTOM MUSIC service, starting at $95.

SportMUSIC.com home page

They offer Rhythmic music, too.

A routine so good, it might have been done in the late 1980s!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Gymtage)

USAG says this year’s Visa Championships is the most successful to date.

The rumours were true. The Olympic Floor champion is back and getting ready to compete.

… Sandra Izbasa recovered her exercises on vault, floor and beam and she already thinks of new challenges. …

Couch Gymnast – Sandra’s back!

Watch video.

Belu is once again the spokesman for Romania, it seems.

Comment on one of those posts:

And once again, reports of Romania’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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.

Antonia Markova is currently a member of USA Gymnastics’ national staff, and choreographer for USA Women’s National Team Artistic Gymnastics.

Here Antonia is filmed giving instructions and corrections to an elite gymnast while she performs the complete complex. This complex is designed specifically for gymnasts to improve their dance skills at the highest levels and all levels can begin to use the complex as they move forward. …

Click through to GymSmarts.com for details. ($30 / 14min)

The Chalk Bucket forum has a thread on this topic.

Cost in the USA runs $100 → $350 for Floor.
Free → $150 for Beam.

If you want professional choreography, check out Precision in Los Angeles.

At my gym kids have paid as much as $450 for a Floor routine. Buying a “used” routine is normally 50% of the original cost.

Leave a comment if you can add to the discussion. Price for quality varies wildly, it seems to me.

related – Gymnastics Zone – So You Need a Routine Choreographed

Mary Lee posted a series of 7 videos from her Tuesday night live online presentation for USA Project 2012 – Tumbling complex for floor.

Click PLAY or watch video #1 on YouTube.

Click through to Mary Lee Tracy’s YouTube channel to watch the additional videos.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

MostepanovaFan has posted over 500 videos, some of the best on the WWW.

Intense, original choreography.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Recommended by Valérie Oudin.

… Known for her unique artistry and spectacular skills, Strazheva was a member of the gold medal-winning Soviet team at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and the 1989 World Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart. She suffered a torn ligament in her knee during her optional balance beam routine in Seoul, and was unable to finish the competition. …

International Gymnast – 2009 interview

Today Olga is a physical education professor in her native Zaporozhye, Ukraine.

Killer choreography.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Recommended by Valérie Oudin. Merci.

The 1992 Olympian from Bulgaria, Silvia Mitova, was famously underscored. Despite that, she finished 11th AA in Barcelona.

In 1993 Silvia was nearly paralyzed training double twisting double back on Floor. That was the end of her career.

She has her own gym in Zieglerville, PA, Silvia’s Gymnastics.

Kyle Shewfelt, Gold medalist in Athens, led a full day at our Level 3 Coaching Course this week hosted by the Calgary Gymnastics Centre.

Click PLAY or get a glimpse on YouTube.

There are no secrets.

Condition. Pay attention to detail, technique and form. Take pride in your gymnastics. Have some personal style. And creativity.

His best advice for young gymnasts is to do series of round-off backward handsprings every practice. For over 15 years he did 10 sets of 5 back handsprings on a soft surface like a TumblTrak or Rod Floor.

One of my favourite routines at the 2010 Canadian Championships. The video doesn’t really do it justice.

Click PLAY or watch Madeline Gardiner on Floor on YouTube.