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First, I recommend to all parents that they not purchase any backyard trampoline.

All are dangerous.

Kids should do trampoline in a club with expert coaches.

Yet it’s worth checking out this innovation.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s the AlleyOop Sports brand DoubleBounce Trampoline by Jump Sports.

JM sent a link to TrampolineSafety.com recommending this brand over SpringFree.

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What is it about gymnastics that makes TV screenplay writers look like complete idiots?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

By comparison, MIOBI is ultra realistic.

There’s another clip from that TV show linked from GYMNAST CROSSING – Gymnasts + Drugs = Bad, mmm’kay?

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I’ve not heard anything about this except from FIG by email:

For the recent Visa American Cup, which took place March 3 of this year at New York City’s (USA) Madison Square Garden and which counts for the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, the American apparatus manufacturer AAI supplied landing mats which have no valid FIG certification and which are incongruent with the FIG specifications currently in force.

Disciplinary procedure has been lodged by the FIG …

Leave a comment if you’ve heard anything.

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I’m still shocked that FIG approved gymnastics apparatus can fall when just one thing goes wrong?

Why are we still using equipment designed with “single point of failure”?

Vince Smurro was lucky this time.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

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I-Gym:

At the London Test Event there was merchandise on sale at the venue – except for the one thing I wanted, the Artistic Gymnastics pin badge (why they never thought to stock these, I have no clue!) so I made a trip to the olympic shop which is inside St Pancras station. What a disappointment that was! They only had the Rythmic badge and very little of anything else!

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I stopped by the St Pancras store today myself. The stock looked junky to me.

What do you think? Are the official Olympic souvenirs disappointing? … They were a HUGE hit at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Queen Elizabeth suggests checking out John Lewis online. Here are their most popular Olympic items.

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Facebook has blundered over and over again in how they’ve managed “Fan pages”, later called “Business pages”.

Sigh …

But once again I’ve got the Gymnastics Coaching Facebook page operational. You can LIKE that page here. Until Facebook breaks it again.

That’s trampolinist Karen Cockburn in the graphic.

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Catch a sneak peak look at one of Ariana Grande‘s performances at Progressive Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular, this time accompanied by Nastia Liukn on the floor exercise.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’m have trouble getting excited about this. These “Spectaculars” seem to work better for Skating than Artistic.

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I’d never seen this fake ad before today. It seems to have been a sick hoax with USA Gymnastics and Breyers ice cream the victims.

Leave a comment if you know more.

See offensive image.

(via @TripleTwistBlog)

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Double Front’s Kristal Sergent Boulden visited the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in Oklahoma:

… The IGHOF website describes its library collection as “extensive,” “second to none,” and “perhaps the largest gymnastics library in the world.”

And yet when I visited the IGHOF, there was no library collection. A staff member told me it was possible that materials were stored in an onsite archive and were not out for display. I am still waiting to hear back from museum staff about what items comprise the library collection.

Aside from the library collection, the IGHOF exhibit is surprisingly underwhelming. …

read more on Double Front

Kristal volunteers to help, if asked.

official site – ighof.com

That’s not the International Gymnastics Federation Hall of Fame, of course, but rather the “International Gymnast magazine” Hall of Fame.

Paul Ziert, CEO of the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, has promised their Board will look at Kristal’s recommendations.

Leave a comment if you’ve been there.

related – Kristal’s photos & video from IGHOF

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Slow loading, annoying to navigate, the latest issue of the British Gymnastics magazine is here.

At least it’s FREE. If you’ve got a fast enough internet connection, see it here.

… Is it any better a reading experience on an iPad? … Nope. @OtotheBeirne cannot get it to open as it uses Flash.

via @GymnationWales

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My Mac is freezing up when trying to load pages from universalsports.com

Yet I have the Current version of (crappy) Silverlight 4 (4.0.60831.0)

Leave a comment if you’re having problems with that site, too.

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I won’t link to Universal videos.

Rich Zuckerman, Multimedia Producer, UniversalSports.com via email:

These are viewable in the U.S. & territories, China, and most of South Asian and South America (a bit of a hodgepodge of nations, I know, though the vast majority of our viewership obviously comes from the U.S. & territories).

In terms of Silverlight, there is a possibility that we could eventually move away from it, but there are no immediate plans for a change.

But YOU should go find them if geographically eligible. Universal has been posting very quickly. (Or if you have a proxy hack.)

I will link to YouTube videos. Click PLAY or watch Jordyn’s Floor (with O.B.) on YouTube.

More individual routine videos via Full Twist.

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Wouldn’t it be great if there was fast online video coverage of major gymnastics meets.

THERE IS — UniversalSports.com

Problem is videos won’t load. Or won’t load for non-Americans. Or won’t load on a Mac. Or won’t load for YOU.

And they use dreadful Silverlight technology, one of Microsoft’s many less than brilliant innovations. It’s like Flash, but even worse. Yuck.

I can’t watch them … but maybe you can. Here are some routines from the Men’s Team Final, Tokyo.

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