Gymnast Keiran Long was able to follow 5 Men’s apparatus simultaneously on the same screen, but that’s not the case for everyone. There are many factors, especially the speed of your internet connection.

Leave a comment on how it’s working for you.

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(via Zhenya Kanaeva Gymnasium)

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A vibrating suit could be the key to ensuring Britain’s athletes perform with inch-perfect precision at this summer’s Olympics.

… tiny sensors attached to the wearer’s skin trigger motors to tell them when they move in the correct way.

A computer tracks the user’s movements in real time and the results can be monitored by a coach as Olympic hopefuls practice. …

British Olympic rhythmic gymnast Mimi Cesar, 17, is using the technology to polish her routines.

… ‘The suit will be especially useful in group gymnastics because you get points for synchronisation and how you all look together so it will help gymnasts do the routines exactly the same.

‘If all five of them wore the suits they would know exactly where to place their back or body …

Read more on the Daily Mail – Giving Olympic athletes a buzz: New electric training suit vibrates to tell medal hopefuls when they have perfected a routine

(via @gymnewstics)

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“Rhythmic Gymnastics – A Tribute.”

… it is a large coffee table publication printed on quality photographic paper with 240 photographs – so buyers get plenty for their money!

Self publishing is not a cheap option and this book will be something of a special purchase for interested buyers. I’m conscious that the price puts it out of the range for many younger gymnasts and fans so have arranged for the book to be available in e book format for viewing on iPads and iPhones. The price for this option should bring it within their reach. …

Where Sport Meets Art

Details and sample pages via that link.

The book itself is about $130, a collector’s item. The Apple ebooks edition less than $12.

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Here’s 13yr-old gymnast Mia Dumas, a spokes-gymnast for the Canadian National Gymnastics Championships 2012.

Mia did great. A natural.

… The six-day event will attract approximately 1,000 gymnasts from across the country, including athletes who are on their way to London, England for the 2012 Summer Games. …

“I’m using the same chalk as they use and I’ll be on the same beam and using the same floor as them,” said Dimas, a 13-year-old, Grade 7 student at Dr. A.E. Perry School. “I’m competing at the same event and in the same building as them. You’re so close to being an Olympian and you feel like an Olympian because they’re right there beside you …

Leader~Post – Local athletes to mingle with Olympians

We’re hosting Nationals in Regina May 21-26th, 2012. Artistic, Trampoline and Rhythmic. Please plan to join us.

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Leave a comment if you see any of the other DRAFT Codes posted.

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Common sense prevails.

Two months after missing the target score set by British Gymnastics to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games, Britain’s rhythmic gymnasts learned Monday that they will be allowed to compete at the Games after all.

Having argued that the selection policy was unclear, the team of six, largely self-funded teenagers succeeded in their appeal against the governing body’s decision not to nominate them for selection for the Games.

“I am not persuaded that the appellants and their coaches must have known that selection would be based only on the qualification stage,” wrote independent arbitrator Graeme Mews, of Sports Resolutions UK …

CTV

Canadian Rhythmic gymnast Mariam Chamilova lost a (much weaker) appeal asking to be added to the Group Olympic team.

(via Full Twist)

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Here’s a recently published study.

BODY COMPOSITION PROFILE OF ELITE GROUP RHYTHMIC GYMNASTS
Carvalho L.A., Klentrou P., da Luz Palomero M., Lebre E.

84 RG group gymnasts from the 2009 and 2010 World Cup were evaluated. Body Mass Index (BMI) was calculated using standard procedures. Relative body fat (%BF), fat mass and lean body mass were estimated from skinfold thickness …

An increase on the age of the gymnasts participating in high level competitions seems to affect the new body appearance profile. Gymnasts are taller and with higher body mass than in the past. …

A few of the interesting statistics from that study:

• collected during the 2009 and 2010 RG World Cups in Portimão, Portugal.

• Chronological age = 18.59yrs-old (15.27-25.04)

• Body mass (Kg) = 53.05kg or 117lbs (41.10-63.10kg)

• Height (cm) = average 168.13 or 5ft 5in

• Body Fat = 16.74% average

• menarche = 15.92yrs-old average

• started Rhythmic training age-6.46

• training = 40.50hrs / week average

The more successful gymnasts began earlier …, had more years of practice, train more hours a day and had more weekly training volume. The Elite group RG gymnasts had a later onset of menarche than normal population. …

Read the entire paper (PDF) from Vol. 4 Issue 1: Science of Gymnastics Journal.

I don’t know enough about Rhythmic to offer much comment. But do RG girls really need to train more hours / week than Artistic?

That’s surprising.

Delayed menarche seems to be related to low percentage body fat, though the study does not weigh in on that.

The photo is Amina Zaripova who was considered thin even by RG standards.

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L4 Information Package (PDF)

via email from Denise Gauthier

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Athletes from 16 countries will compete in the 2012 Kellogg’s® Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, March 16-18, Everett, Washington … near Seattle.

Friday, March 16
10 a.m. – Rhythmic Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 1)
1:30 p.m. – Women’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 1)
3 p.m. – Rhythmic Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 2)
7 p.m. – Women’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 2)

Saturday, March 17
1:30 p.m. – Men’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 1)
3 p.m. – Rhythmic Individual Event Finals
7 p.m. – Men’s Team & All-Around (Sub Div. 2)

Sunday, March 18
9 a.m. – Trampoline Junior Team Competition
11:30 a.m. – Trampoline Senior Team Competition
12 p.m. – Men’s & Women’s Junior Individual Event Finals
4 p.m. – Trampoline Individual Event Finals
6 p.m. – Men’s & Women’s Senior Individual Event Finals
7 p.m. – Synchronized Trampoline Competition

USAG

Blythe Lawrence will be there for Examiner. She’s from Seattle.

… The inclusion of six of the top eight potential Olympic teams on the women’s side and Japan, China, Russia and the U.S. going head-to-head on the men’s makes this meet a bona fide Olympic dress rehearsal. …

Lauren Hopkins will be there for The Couch Gymnast. I’ll be there, too. I’m particularly interested in this opportunity:

In conjunction with the 2012 Kellogg’s Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, USA Gymnastics is offering two days of coaching, judging and business educational opportunities during the event at the Tulalip Resort. To attend for free, you will need to show your Pacific Rim Championships event ticket.

details

Jim Jarrett, Quin Shannon, Susan Jacobson, & Linda Metheny Mulvihill are a few of the presenters.

more information & tickets

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