This short training vid just passed 100,000 hits.

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Thanks Dana.

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She’s exquisite. I like best the “Diamodov” to 1-arm handstand at 2min 30sec.

(via Matt Sparks on Facebook)

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… 20,478 gymnasts and fans from more than 100 gymnastics clubs nationwide joined together today to break the world record for most handstands performed simultaneously …

Here are Mary Wright’s kids spelling out the name of their club – Olympus.

… more photos from different clubs

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Each year, USA Gymnastics celebrates National Gymnastics Day to raise exposure of our sport. Since 2001, gymnastics clubs across the country have raised more than $1.4 million for Children’s Miracle Network. This year, on Sept. 17, 2011, gym clubs across the country will take part in a nationwide handstand world-record attempt to celebrate …

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John Geddert on Facebook:

Twistars USA is hosting a FREE Open House on National Gymnastics Day – Saturday, September 17th, from 12:30pm to 3:30pm at the Summit Location!

At 1pm (Eastern Time) sharp – anyone and everyone who can, will need to have their “feet off the ground” in an attempt at a Guinness World Record! This will be conducted in conjunction with USA Gymnastics and will be recorded.

Will YOU be doing a handstand on the 17th?

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It’s Sports Day in Canada, too. Karen Cockburn, Jason Burnett, and Rosie MacLennan, to celebrate, perform in Toronto.

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… as in most Cirque shows, the storytelling plays a distant second to the spectacle, and, happily, the latter aspect of OVO is grand.

The staging, with its vibrant ecosystem, complete with giant-sized webs, cocoons and a monolithic egg (a thematic symbol of the bugs’ life cycle, ovo means egg in Portuguese) is spectacular.

The dazzling costumes — an inspired hybrid of superhero spandex and historical suits of armour — are suitably outlandish.

And the stunts — played out to the Brazilian electro-pop sounds of a cockroach band, which run the gamut between romantic and sizzling — are nothing short of stunning. …

Magnifique! Cirque du Soleil’s OVO must be seen to be believed

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OVO IN CALGARY

At intermission we chatted with gracious Head Coach Eric Heppel. He informed that slack wire solo performer is by far the best in the world. He shows handstand, handstand walking and 1-arm handstand on a pendulum. Rock solid. No balance adjustments.

I never get tired of Tramp wall. OVO is another superb variation.

Overall … the highlight of this show are the costumes. (That caterpillar is enough to give you nightmares.)

The weakest element, as usual, are the clowns. … Though I somewhat liked Flippo. He grew on me as the show progressed.

Disclosure – As a Casting consultant, Cirque gave me 4 tickets. Merci. … I took a former gymnast who wants to audition.

I had her watch the House Troupe performers, rather than those specialists in the spotlight.

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“Handstand” by Daniel Stern

The artist reflects on his career in theater and films in this eight-foot bronze sculpture that depicts a man performing a one-armed handstand balanced 12 feet above the pavement. His hope is that people who see the artwork will get a feeling of motion, joy, color, chaos, balance, humor, danger, possibilities and impossibilities.

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from her Facebook profile

A super talent, she did not start seriously training gymnastics until age-11.

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(via Brigid and Gymnastics I Love)

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