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Click PLAY or watch a montage by Revaz Gurgenidze on YouTube.

Stu sends us a clip featuring Julia Paliy & Igor Gavva, Acrobatic gymnasts doing a dance piece.

Igor is outstanding. The video will begin at 2min 40sec, a unique 1-arm handstand if you click here.

Or, you can watch the entire thing by clicking PLAY below.

maRin creation in Kiev, Ukraine is the brainchild of Vladimir Marin.

by site editor Rick McCharles.

The International Gymnastics Federation moved from Moutier to a new building in Lausanne, Switzerland earlier this year.

It’s conveniently located close to the train station.

This past summer, on recommendation from Keith Russell, I visited the new digs. And was very impressed with the operation.

Meike Behrensen, F.I.G. Media Operations Coordinator, gave me a tour.

(You’ve probably noticed how well and widely Meike has been getting information out to the world in recent months. I’m getting updates every couple of days from multiple sources. Thanks.)

I felt a bit sheepish entering the lovely historic building after all the less than positive things I’ve had to say about F.I.G. over the years. But you won’t find Bruno Grandi at the FIG offices. Nor
Nellie Kim.

Here the FIG employees work frantically trying to keep all the events and programs worldwide on track.

It’s not easy.

I was impressed with everyone I met: young, enthusiastic, energetic, multi-lingual. To survive working for FIG you must have a lot of good qualities.

On this blog we mostly cover Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. But in Lausanne they administer Trampoline Sports, Rhythmic, Aerobic, Acrobatic, Gymnastics for All, … and much, much more.

Consider this a shout out for the F.I.G. Staff. We really appreciate what you are doing for coaches and athletes.

Related:

Aomori University won the 2009 All Japan Team Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships.

But don’t expect to see a male version of the Women’s sport.

This is must see video. Great artistry, precision, synchronicity. Difficult tumbling. Sections that could be called Acrobatic Gymnastics.

In fact, this team could go to work for Cirque du Soleil tomorrow. A riveting performance.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Japan has been doing male team performances like this for over 50yrs.

For the first time I found this Men’s Rhythmic Gymnastics website. It’s not kept updated, however.

Rhythmic Gymnastics is a competitive sport under the authority of F.I.G. (International Gymnastics Federation). Currently, only the women’s portion of rhythmic gymnastics is recognized by FIG – men’s rhythmic gymnastics is yet to get FIG approval. The possibilities and opportunities men’s rhythmic gymnastics presents are endless. It is up to each and everyone of us to work hard to make the dream a reality.

MenRG.com

Thanks Chris Houston for sending us the link.

UPDATE: Streamed video at abola.pt/directos/

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Shani Isseroff reminds us that European Championships is in progress right now in Portugal.

24th European Championships for Seniors and 8th European Championships for Juniors and 4th European Age Group Games in Acrobatic Gymnastics take place from 25th September to 4th October in Vila do Conde (POR).

Russia and Great Britain dominated the Age Group competition (11-16).

GymNiceTic

Shani points out that it’s not getting much coverage on either old media or the internet. Perhaps Senior finals will be interesting enough to generate some press.

Fact is, Acrobatic Gymnastics is my favourite gymnastics discipline. And there are no athletes more sought after for Circus jobs.

GymNiceTic covers Acrobatic Gymnastics.

FIG does a good job of providing an overview, but not much commentary:

… Some 422 gymnasts from 18 national federations will compete at the Acrobatic Gymnastics European Championships end of September and beginning of October in Vila Do Conde (POR) in the categories Women’s Pairs, Men’s Pairs, Mixed Pairs, Women’s Trios and Men’s Groups. …

FIG – Europe’s ACRO elite meet in Portugal

Videos are being streamed from France. (Click on the pulldown menu to choose what to watch.)

The British Acrobatic Gymnastics blog is good.

More links have been compiled here.

But Shani is correct. There are not nearly enough Acrobatic Gymnastics websites on the net. Leave a comment if you have more to recommend.

related link – The quadruple back has now been banned in FIG competition, I understand.

In January we posted that excellent online gymnastics videos from the UK could be streamed FREE.

They’d planned to make it a members only subscription model, “in a few weeks”.

But now in April it’s still free to all worldwide.

Check it out via the British Gymnastics website – BGTV. An interview with Beth Tweddle and her coach Amanda Kirby is featured on the home page.

Right now I’m watching highlights from the British Acrobatic and Tumbling Gymnastics Championships from March 20-22nd.

On YouTube, gymnasticfan posts some of the best Acrobatic Gymnastics videos.

She’s a Hungarian athlete herself.

I collected all the triple saltos from the tempo exercises of the European Championships in 2007.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Wow. This sport is crazy.

Are they competing quadruple salto yet?

I like the editing. Plenty of pommel horse.

Gymnastic Best of Best

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This is rare.

An article in the mainstream American media highlighting the excellent club in Livermore, California — the West Coast Training Center — that produces so many of the top Acrobatic gymnasts in the States.

… In acrobatic gymnastics, the gymnasts help each other perform balance and “flight skills” — or dynamics — as opposed to traditional gymnastics, which uses balance beams and other inanimate structures. The sport, which has been at a competitive level in the U.S. for more than 30 years, didn’t come under the USA Gymnastics umbrella until 2002, according to Marie Annonson, head coach and owner of West Coast Training Center.

Acro combines dance, gymnastics and acrobatic and tumbling skills. Performers have three different routines: “balance,” where the partners will hold positions for three seconds; “dynamic,” which involves flipping and throwing the person who is the “top;” and “combined,” which is performed only at the “elite” level and combines dynamic and balance routines. …

Awesome acros — Livermore center trains rare breed of extra-agile athletes

West Coast Training Center website

Acro is a fantastic sport. What a shame it has not caught on bigger in North America. In fact, worldwide the discipline is shrinking, not growing.

That’s disappointing for Cirque du Soleil who hires Acrobatic gymnasts for almost every show.

All Gymnastics, All the time covers most of the FIG competitive gymnastics sports.

In a year end round-up called The Good, The Bad, and the Okay … I’ll mention only those on the GOOD list:

Nastia Liukin.
Texas.
Marcela Lopez.
Corrie Lothrop.
Canadian trampoliners.
Eastern bloc rhythmic and acrobatic gymnastics.
Yevgeniya Kanaeva.
Japan and Australia. And even Brazil.
Inna Zhukova.
Belarus.
China.

Click through to read the details.

All Gymnastics, All the time – The Good, The Bad, and the Okay

UPDATE: trex comments:

At the age of 16 Shawn won nationals, trials, 3 olympic silver medals and a gold medal becoming a millionaire in the process. On what planet is that not a good year? I’m so sick of Nastia fan girls trying to diminish Shawn.

Obviously Shawn is not only one of the great success stories of 2008, but of the entire history of gymnastics. She and her coaches are role models for us all.

Sadly, when you are the Olympic favourite, a Silver medal seems a disappointment to many.

Olympic Champion Yevgeniya Kanaeva will be competing at the LA Lights competition in Los Angeles in January.

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I saw this too-late-for-Christmas gift idea linked from an excellent, well-informed new blog called All Gymnastics, All the time.

Up to date information about all the disciplines of gymnastics..

It covers Rhythmic, Trampoline Sports, Aerobic and Acrobatic Gymnastics.

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One of the great names in gymnastics history, Canadian gymnast Jackie Bender, did the best one arm handstands, one arm press, jump to one arm handstand, planche, and reverse planche I’ve ever seen.

She should have been an Acrobatic gymnast.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I was happy to see her featured on the excellent Gymnastics Crossing blog. (Click through to watch her 1991 Beam routine.)

In fact, some of the footage I videotaped myself at a clinic with her coach, Mr. B, at CanAm Gym Club in Saskatoon after the 1991 Canadian National Championships. Good memories.