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Sports Girls Play linked to WePlay.com. One of their many sports is Gymnastics.

Youth Gymnastics Hub – Your place for everything Gymnastics

Looks good though I’m not sure how well the content is networked. See for yourself.

About 4000 “members“. (many with cartoon avatars)

Over 300 “Gymnastics Groups“.

Something called “blogs“. (Though no page without an RSS feed can be a blog, in my opinion.)

Hundreds of photos and videos:

Roanoke Academy of Gymnastics

WePlay.com – Gymnastics

Cincinnati Gymnastics offers a “Parents Night Out” for Valentine’s Day. Drop off your kids at the gym for $25ea.

Good idea.

Alabama coaches have three buses. One is for sale.

You can pick the bus you want from the three, price range from $21,000 to $31,000 . All buses are diesel and have less than 150,000 miles.

Check out biggymbus.com

more photos

Contact – biggymbus AT gmail.com

Nicole Miller is the Recreational Gymnastics Coordinator at Lakewood-Trumbull YMCA in Connecticut.

She’s posting her coaching notes online. Drills and Skills. So few Rec coaches do this that I linked to her site from our right hand navigation under Recreation Gymnastics.

It’s divided into sections based on competitive apparatus. There’s a glossary page and links.

Check it out. Or send the link to your Rec Director.

Gymnastics Skills Coaching Handbook

It’s a work in progress. Nicole will be adding more over time.

Note that this is a “Google Site“, a simpler alternative to blogging software. Easy to update.

The 2004 Olympic Floor Champion did a nice Public Service Announcement on TV featuring gymnasts from his original club, Altadore.

Click to watch it.

KidSport Mission:

We believe that no kid should be left on the sidelines and all should be given the opportunity to experience the positive benefits of organized sports. KidSport provides support to children in order to remove financial barriers that prevent them from playing organized sport.

We do this by:

Raising funds in the community to pay registration fees for KidSport™ kids to participate in sport programs.
Gathering used equipment for KidSport™ kids to use in sport programs.

Advocating the value and benefit of kids playing sports in the pursuit of lifelong health and wellness.

Raising funds in the community to pay registration fees for KidSport™ kids to participate in sport programs.

We believe that through participation in organized sport activities, kids learn the values of:

Co-operation

Team play and friendship

Commitment to goals

Personal excellence

Healthy competition

Self-esteem

Competition for “display gymnastics”?

… Seems to me the Gymnastrada approach is better.

Why does every activity have to be judged? (… Or awarded a trophy named after Bruno Grandi.)

The GC Piruett Elite Group of Tallin, Estonia has been crowned the first World Club Champion ever to go down in the annals of the International Gymnastics Federation. … Created by the FIG Gymnastics for All Committee, the cup is a first of its kind for interclub events …

80 clubs from 27 countries and representing 3 continents underwent a selective process; a total of 2,000 gymnasts. After two days of elimination, 14 clubs were selected for the final. As expected, nations with a strong, ancestral tradition in gymnastics (Switzerland, Norway, Germany and Italy) qualified several clubs each. Observers were excited to note the emergence of newer groups from countries such as Estonia and Turkey. …

read more … on FIG

credit - SportPixel.net

A few more facts have been released, including the name of the gymnast who seems to have had a strong gymnastics background:

The mother of a 19-year-old gymnast who died last week in Townsville in north Queensland says there was nothing freakish about the training accident.

Michelle Maitland hit her head after a falling from the tumble track last Thursday.

She was admitted to Townsville General Hospital in a critical condition and died early on Friday.

Workplace Health and Safety Queensland is investigating the death.

Her mother, Anne Maitland, says a safety mat was missing from where it would normally be and her daughter hit her head on the concrete. …

Nothing freakish about fatal gymnast’s accident, mum says

Initially I feared this might be a “dumb” Adult Recreation gymnastics fall. But to me it sounds only a very sad and unfortunate accident.

We have the same problem in my gym. Reminding everyone to return safety mats to their normal location.

My condolences to the family.

UPDATE:

I am Michelle Maitland’s mother. Thanks for condolences. Michelle was not doing anything radical at Gymnastics Townsville and had only returned to the adult class this year, not having been inside a gym centre since 2002. Yes, it would have been a good idea for Michelle to check the mats herself but was just going around a normal circuit with the group and coach. She did a layout off the tumble tramp’ and I am guessing she realised the crash mat was not there as she went over and tried to pull the somersault short so as to land on the thin mat immediatly at the end of the tramp- that would have made her feet skid forward and her head smashed into the concrete. A very basic error. No reports have been completed by WH&S or the Coroner as yet. I have advise the Gymnastics officials at a state and national level that I would expect them to install some sort of safety flooring or permenant matting in all gyms but they are waiting for the reports before taking any voluntary action. Even the rubbery material put around all playground equipment would be better than concrete I believe.

An excellent special event to add to your annual calendar.

You need good coaches, though. That are able to spot beginners. Especially older Cheer tumblers.

CGA’s Back Handspring Clinic is open to all Superoo’s and Level 1 – 3 students. This is an excellent opportunity to develop strength and technique to successfully complete the “Back Handspring!”

SUNDAY, APRIL 26th
3:00-4:30
$25.oo per gymnast

Cincinnati Gymnastics

Former American Olympic Coach Peter Korman is promoting a new product. Ideal for introducing forward and backward handspring to beginners, including older Cheer kids.

Any gymnast that learns a backward handspring without spot is near certain to re-register for the following session.

The UCS Tear Drop Trainer is specially design to properly train the athlete performing a back or front handspring.

Available in 4 sizes including an extra large model to accomodate taller athletes

$495 – $830

UCS – Handspring Tear-Drop Trainer

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It looks like a slight improvement on Norbert’s The Boulderâ„¢. To compare that product video, click here. About $650.

One of my favourite activities.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

These boys at Altadore Gymnastics age 4-5 are called “Mitey Mites”. They train 4hrs/wk, 10 months of the year.

The goal is general phyical (strength, flexibility) and motor (agility, balance, coordination, rhythm) fitness for all sports.

From this group kids are invited into 6hr/wk precompetitive, normally the September when they start Grade-1.

Gymnast Crossing is a blog that chronicles the day-to-day events at a gymnastics club. In this case the Los Angeles School of Gymnastics.

This unusual and charming edit was posted by the Wordsmith by Nantucket.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Gymnast Crossing – On My Way to Wanna Be

Coach Tanis Tzavaras created a Facebook page for her fitness program, TanisFit Training Systems.

official website

She also runs the Adult Gymnastic Class on Wednesday Nights out of Stampede City Gym Club in Calgary.

The Gymnastics Canada philosophy.

A good one.

related post: NEW Gymnastics Canada Recreation manual