… The winter madness goes down in Aspen, Colorado on January 26 – 29, 2012.
Click PLAY or watch a PROMO on YouTube.
(via Hardbody)
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Winter X-Games start Jan 26th
January 3rd, 2012 — snow and ice
parkour on skis
December 27th, 2011 — parkour (free running), snow and ice
Trail, B.C. — a very artistic edit.
… alpine skis down hilly city terrain. Includes jumps over hung laundry & parked cars, railslides down stairs, etc. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Dangerous, but inexpensive. He takes the public bus back up the hill at the end.
Ron Shewchuk linked to this on kottke.
biomechanics of Shaun White
November 29th, 2011 — biomechanics, snow and ice
Progressive Halloween & Gymnastics Spooktacular
October 25th, 2011 — Gymnastics, snow and ice
I understand Nastia is coming costumed as a GYMNAST. 
… The Progressive Skating & Gymnastics Spectacular, coming to … Moline, Ill., on October 29, is part of the Pandora NBC Skating Series and will feature Olympic, world and national medalists in figure skating and gymnastics, including Olympic hopefuls for the London 2012 Summer Games.
Leading the cast of world-class gymnasts is 2008 Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin, returning for her fifth appearance in the show. …
Horton is out as he’s just had minor surgery.
ski jump to Air Bag
August 31st, 2011 — Olympics, safety, snow and ice
CALGARY — Big air, soft landing.
Freestyle skiers and snowboarders rocketing off a jump into an enormous air bag Monday at Canada Olympic Park compared it to jumping into a giant marshmallow. …
The behemoth landing cushion — 17 metres long and 11 metres wide — is the first one in Alberta and one of the few air bags in Canada. …
… The International Olympic Committee recently added freestyle and snowboard slopestyle, as well as women’s ski halfpipe to its Winter Games menu.
CFSA Chief Operating Officer Peter Judge estimates there’s between six and a dozen air bags operating in the country …
This version is only for age group athletes. The big guns still train into water.
Brett MacAuley linked to this story from Facebook. Thanks.
Anne Abernathy – “Grandma Luge”
August 9th, 2011 — Olympics, snow and ice, sport medicine
Anne Abernathy (born April 12, 1953) is a luge athlete from the United States Virgin Islands and is the oldest female athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics. The 2006 Winter Olympics were her sixth.
Despite her age, she is a consistent competitor with frequent World Cup podium finishes, and she is consistently ranked in the top 20 world rankings. She is known within luge circles as “Grandma Luge.” …
OK, I’m impressed. … Especially that a Luge Olympian can live in the Virgin Islands.
shergymrag mentioned this inspirational athlete because of her use of a new medical therapy.
… Abernathy suffered a serious accident during a World Cup race in Altenberg, Germany in January 2001 that resulted in a severe brain injury. To recover from the injury, she used an alternative medicine treatment involving controlling rockets in a video game through electrical impulses from brain waves, a therapy designed to help her retrain her brain to compensate for the damaged areas.
The therapy was successful and Abernathy was able to return to competition in time to qualify for the 2002 Winter Olympics. The story of Abernathy’s crash and recovery was featured on the Discovery Health Channel series Impact: Stories of Survival. …
Wow.
Red Bull – The Art of FLIGHT
August 6th, 2011 — movies, snow and ice
I’ve seen a few scarifying trailers for the upcoming Red Bull snowboard movie The Art of FLIGHT. Here’s one.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I honestly don’t think I could watch that film.
Camp Woodward SOLD
August 5th, 2011 — camps, cheer, Gymnastics, rollerskating, skateboard, snow and ice
The 425-acre camp in Haines Township, and its offshoots in Wisconsin and California, along with its brand name and licensing rights, was sold last week to Powdr Corp., an investment group that owns nine ski resorts across the country.
Powdr CFO Jennifer Botter said her company is looking to build more camps both inside the U.S. and in as many as 30 foreign countries. …
Powdr’s interest in the camp was sparked by its purchase of Colorado’s Copper Mountain ski resort, where a Camp Woodward-licensed facility, dedicated to winter sports instruction for youth, opened in 2009.
“We became quite enamored of the people — Gary Ream in particular — and really became aware of what the camp was doing for the action sports industry,” Botter said.
Ream is the co-owner of Camp Woodward and the man behind its transition from a gymnastics-centered camp into an action sports mecca. …
Botter said Powdr agreed last month to purchase a majority stake in Camp Woodward from Ream and a few other co-owners, including Ream’s family members. Care was taken during the acquisition not to disrupt Camp Woodward’s summer season, she said.
Botter did not disclose the purchase price, but said Ream will remain president and his executive team will be retained. …
What does this mean for Gymnastics and Cheer?
Leave a comment if you’ve heard anything.
(via College Gymnastics Board)
Patrick Chan – World Champion
April 29th, 2011 — snow and ice
Two Quads in his free program. Respect.
… though his 11-point lead was so big he could have won without them on Thursday, he held nothing back once the music started, landing a quadruple toe loop to open and following that up with a quadruple toe-triple toe combination.
The rest was nearly as eye-catching, the only obvious blemish a stumble out of a triple axel midway through his program set to music from “Phantom of the Opera” by Andrew Lloyd Webber. His point total of 187.96 points was a world record …
Click PLAY or watch his Short Program on YouTube.
I know gymnastics coaches who would prefer to compete in Tokyo (rather than have it moved to Moscow) for the Gymnastics World Championships. Is there really any problem with Moscow?
Russia has mystique.
figure skating – Chantastic!
April 27th, 2011 — snow and ice
World Figure Skating Championships, Moscow.
Patrick Chan blew away the field today in the men’s short programme. The canadian’s score set a new IJS record, beating that of Evgeni Plushenko from the 2010 Europeans. The best of the rest were the Japanese men followed by mini-Plushenko, Artur Gachinski of Russia who hit a clean 4T-3T combination. …
read more on Going For Gold
Aunt Joyce has video.
related: Japanese skating in honour of their homeland
6 new Winter Olympic events
April 6th, 2011 — Olympics, snow and ice
Breaking news … 6 new events to be added to the Sochi 2014 Winter Games programme: ski half-pipe (men and women), women’s ski jumping, biathlon mixed relay, figure skating team event and luge team relay
(via The Olympic Games on Facebook)
Olympic aerial skier Ashley Caldwell
March 22nd, 2011 — Olympics, snow and ice
Ashley Caldwell was a competitive gymnast for 11 years at Apex Gymnastics in Virginia.
… The trampoline is familiar terrain for Caldwell, a former gymnast who was wooed to aerial skiing at age 13 as part of a campaign by the United States Ski Team to recruit gymnasts and divers into the sport. Although the program, known as the Elite Aerials Program, is only a few years old, Caldwell is its star alumna.
Caldwell had never seen aerial skiing until 2006, when, at 12, she watched Jeret Peterson perform his Hurricane jump at the Turin Olympics. By 14, she had moved out of her parents’ home in Virginia to train full time at Lake Placid. In 2010, she made the Olympics as the youngest American competing at the Vancouver Games.
Caldwell’s biggest victory came Jan. 21, when she won her first World Cup gold medal (VIDEO interview) after jumping on her home turf in Lake Placid. Last Friday, she barely missed the podium at the freestyle world championships in Park City, Utah, finishing fourth in aerials. …
read more on the NY Times – Landing the Jump From Gymnastics to Aerial Skiing
Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.
Figure Skating Worlds postponed
March 14th, 2011 — snow and ice
