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fwd layout to double tuck

Wow.

Tough tumbling line.

To watch you could click on the embed on this site. Or click through to Gymnastike.

The embed has no video ad. The Gymnastike page does.

I mention this as I’m a bit irked at Gymnastike for not being more transparent on which of their links lead to the membership only videos, and which are free to all.

Normally I’d tell people to go to Gymnastike rather than watch on this site. But right now, if you are not a paid Gold member, you should be leery of wasting your time on a Gymnastike link. Not knowing in advance whether or not you can watch it.

I’d recommend you to join Gymnastike Gold, but I’m also irked they are so reluctant to tell folks the price of membership up front. (My personal philosophy is not to buy any product that has deceptive or hidden pricing.)

All that said, this is a very cool tumbling sequence. Thanks for posting it Gymnastike. :-)

Click PLAY or watch Nia Dennis on Gymnastike.

Watch more video of Nia Dennis on gymnastike.org

related – Checking in with Junior Elite Nia Dennis

Flippin’ Awesome with Aly

Aly Raisman is hosting some sort of kid’s weekly YouTube TV show featuring random sports clips submitted by users.

She looks comfortable on screen. But the choice of clips in the first episode are questionable at best. Wipe outs are included so I’ll not embed.

Click through at your own risk.

Flippin’ Awesome with Aly Raisman Ep. 1: “Stick It”

(via Sports Girls Play)

a caution on Ibuprofin

Many older athletes pop something like Ibuprofin as a regular part of the workout ritual. Some refer to it as “Vitamin I“.

In a study published in the December issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, nine healthy trained men cycled using different combinations of ibuprofen, no ibuprofen and rest.

The study found that ibuprofen aggravates injury in the small intestine, based on measurements of cell leakage in the gut lining.

Whether the leakage leads to pathology isn’t known and will take a longer-term study to determine.

“This is the first study to reveal that ibuprofen aggravates exercise-induced small intestinal injury and induces gut barrier dysfunction in healthy individuals,” Kim van Wijck of Maastrict University Medical Centre and her co-authors wrote.

“We conclude that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs consumption by athletes is not harmless and should be discouraged.” …

CBC

MED – Make Ethical Decisions

As a clinician in Canada for the National Coaching Certification Program I was required to complete an online ethics course.

Online Evaluation for Make Ethical Decisions – Competition – Introduction:

• Scenario One
• Scenario Two

… You will fail the evaluation if you cannot:

• establish the facts of the situation

• distinguish between legal and ethical situations

• determine appropriate solutions to the scenario

Coach.ca

The two scenarios were somewhat interesting. Somewhat useful.

But the design of the online course was sterile. Slow to complete. Buttons did not align clearly to text.

Too academic. Too wordy.

Correct “answers” were debatable.

Overall call me DISAPPOINTED. :(

I did send my feedback to Coaching Association of Canada.

Two of us had trouble logging into The Vault, as well. But my distress email was quickly answered.

crappy Reisport grips?

Luke Wiwatowski:

I’m having some trouble with Reisport guards of late. The leather seems to be breaking more often and wearing out quicker. I’ve heard that the leather at the moment is going through a bad batch. In any case I’m on the hunt for a new brand

Reisport Guards and Bad Leather

I like expensive Reisport grips best for guys, inexpensive Grips Etc for girls.

But Reisport quality often suffers. I recall older gymnasts ripping them in half first turn on the apparatus. :(

Leave a comment on Luke’s blog if you have advice.

Kellogg recalls Mini-Wheats

Kellogg has issued a recall of 282,000 boxes of Mini-Wheats cereal, over fears that metal scraps could be found in the breakfast food.

The company said this week that some boxes of Frosted Mini-Wheats Bite Size Original and Mini-Wheats Unfrosted Bite Size cereal could contain metal fragments from a faulty manufacturing part. …

Mail

Instead, eat the alternative with GYMNASTICS on the box.

via @amygym

ezine @rticle CRAP

Lance Winslow:

… While watching the 2012 Olympics in London on NBC I was wowed by the performance of the US and Chinese athletes in diving and gymnastics, along with the freeze frame shots of the dives, vaults, and floor exercises. It occurred to me that we could easily design a computerized robotic coach which would analyze, judge, and grade not only events, but also work as a coach in practice offering strategic advice to help the athletes better themselves, and I hate to say it, but the robotic system I am envisioning would be even better than the human eye, or a human coach. Let’s talk. …

The author Lance Winslow, like most ezine @rticle blabbers, has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.

How could he? That’s Lance’s 27,111th ezine article.

He writes them for a few pennies each.

I won’t link to that nonsense.

gymnastics video work flow?

I spent a couple of days last week shooting video with a pro, Chris Hutchinson, from Tumbl Trak. And learned a lot.

Chris gave me advice on how to set up my own system for capturing, editing and storing video clips.

Here’s my first DRAFT sketch up

If you have any advice, leave a comment on this post. Or over on my personal blog where I’ve posted my equipment and specific details.

Ron and Shawn

Steve Holt:

Athletes have endorsed junk food for years, but emotions over seeing the fittest athletes in the world selling burgers, submarine sandwiches, sugary cereals and sodas seem stronger this year.

… perhaps it’s our awareness that we as a nation are fat, and we’re only getting fatter

Junk Food OlympiAds: Athletes Fuel Games’ Fast-Food Assault

watching NBC Olympics online


My buddy Derek in Idaho is excited about the NBC Olympics Live Extra app. Free for iPad and iPhone.

There’s an Android app too, I’m told.

Reviews are mostly negative, sadly. It’s only available from the U.S. iTunes store, so don’t bother if you are from anywhere else.

NBC uses Adobe® Flash® not HTML5.

And is (mostly) not available outside the USA:

Q: Can we watch video on NBCOlympics.com outside of the United States?

A: Due to Olympic broadcasting regulations, NBC is only allowed to show Olympic content on the internet for the United States & U.S. Territories. Users outside of those locations will still have access to an extensive set of non-event video content on NBCOlympics.com.

Q: What is required for access to view “Live Streaming” video content?

A: With a cable, satellite or telco TV subscription that includes MSNBC and CNBC, you can access live streams of EVERY Olympic event at no additional charge.

Q: When is this Live Streaming content going to be available?

A: Live Coverage of Olympic Trials events to begin in June.
Live Olympic coverage and full event replays will be available starting July 25th, 2012.

NBC Olympics FAQ

retro USA Olympic gear

Too little, too late are complaints about the American Olympic uniforms. The Team is already in London.

Marketing guru Michael Jacki is appalled.

Yet these outfits are so wacky, that I can’t help but like them. :)

who should obese kids sue?

:)

McDonald’s Cheeseburger Happy Meal

Chick-fil-A Kids Grilled Nuggets Meal – Contains the same amount of cholesterol as a Big Mac.

Sonic Kids’ Jr. Burger Meal – Contains more sugar than two Twinkies.

Burger King Hamburger Kids’ Meal – Contains almost as much cholesterol as six slices of pork bacon.

Denny’s Build Your Own Jr. Grand Slam – Contains almost 100 more milligrams of sodium than the government recommends children consume at breakfast.

A Report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine – The Five Worst “Healthy” Fast-Food Kids Meals (PDF)

(via mother nature network)

difficult to read web pages …

If you follow this site you know I link to Blythe Lawrence’s Examiner blog more than any other.

But it’s getting increasingly cluttered. That’s not Blythe, but rather the host — Examiner.

In frustration with the pop-up shown, I downloaded a free Google Chrome browser extension called Clearly. (There are others similar.)

With one click, Clearly makes blog posts and articles clean and easy to read. Clearly eliminates all distractions from your online reading experience, and even allows you to browse multi-page articles in one, seamless view.

Connect Clearly to Evernote to clip and sync articles with every computer, phone and tablet you use. …

Here’s how Examiner looks after being interpreted by Clearly.

If these utilities get popular, companies like Examiner will have to come up with less annoying, deceptive advertisements.

Why can’t I pay for a version of Gymnastics Examiner ad free?

If interested for yourself, watch how Clearly works on YouTube.

Note. Clearly doesn’t work on some web pages. Video heavy Aunt Joyce, for example.

P.S. I’ll occasionally click on some Examiner ads, just to support Blythe. Even better, why doesn’t someone hire her away from Examiner? She’s too good for them.