World Team Selection Event (France)
Indo Pacifics Selection Event ( Japan)
Youth Team Selection Event

Basic Format Trampoline , Tumbling , DMT, Synchro

All National Level Athletes 11 years of age and older can compete.

CONTACT: DEREK HANSON
(403) 212-5728 | dhanson AT abgym.ab.ca

Thanks Brett MacAulay.

Current USA tumbling champion, Kalon Ludvigson, to compete in MAG at 2010 Winter Cup with Olympians Horton, Aremev and Tan.

That would be awesome.

But can a super back tumbler actually put together an FIG Floor Routine?

Click PLAY or watch Kalon on YouTube.

UPDATE: Confirmation on USAG.

Awesome.

Coach Jamie Atkin custom ordered a custom built “Super Tramp”. It’s HUGE.

Edge is one of the top Trampoline and Tumbling clubs in Canada.

But it’s also got a terrific facility now for WAG.

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This new state-of-the-art facility is four times larger than our previous home and will provide participants with an incredible gymnastics experience. …

official website

Congratulations to everyone out in Airdrie, population about 30,000. You’ve got a world class gym.

Watch a video of the gym under construction on YouTube.

Drop-in $12 / class:

Teen drop-in (13-19): Wed @ 8-9 and Sat @ 5-6

Adult drop-in (18+): Tues @ 8-9 and Sat @ 5-6

Airdrie Edge is close to the monster new Cross Iron Mills shopping mall.

Most Dangerous ‘Sport’ of All May Be Cheerleading
With No Regulatory Framework in Place, Cheerleading ER Visits Have Skyrocketed

Currently Cheer is the target of a lot of negative press, some of it deserved.

In the past Trampoline Sports were a media target. At other times, elite Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. Many times I challenge comparatively uninformed journalists when they make misstatements.

But it’s hard to dispute much in the ABC video – When the Cheering Stops (8min)

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I do think Cheer needs to do better at training and certifying coaches, especially in tumbling.

On the other hand, there are a surprising number of superb coaches and athletes for a comparatively new sport. Some of the spotters are as good as the best Artistic coaches.

Over the past 10yrs I’ve been converted to a Cheer fan. It’s wonderful to see so many hundreds of thousands of athletes participating.

Update: Check the comments. Geoffrey Taucer feels different.

We need to do more to educate the general public on the health benefits of Cheer.

(If you’ve not seen Damien’s videos, you don’t use YouTube.)

Damien posted this highlights reel of his student.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The first gymnast to do “Miller” on an Artistic competition Floor was Steve Elliot (a power tumbler), decades ago in the NCAA. It’s been very rare since.

Our World Champion does it with ease. Is Kohei Uchimura the greatest AA gymnast of all time?

GymNiceTic linked to a a related post on the American Gymnast blog.

Andy Thornton posted 4 Floor routines from the Japanese Men’s Championships 2009.

Here’s Kohei .Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Great landings. Especially the triple twist.

Click through to watch the other 3 routines. Okiguchi mounted with double pike with a full-out to a punch front 1 ¾. INSANE.

Shusuke mounts with Tamayo, laid-out double Arabian. That’s the skill where Kyle Shewfelt shattered both knee caps during podium training at World Championships.

American Gymnast – What the heck was that??!!

Update: After Andrew saw this, he posted the routines of Justin Spring and Ri Jong Song competing Miller.

… I’m even more convinced that Shane should take some responsibility for his accident. As sher says, he’s certainly experienced enough to know to ask for a spot if he might need one.

A Jacksonville jury awarded a former gymnastics coach $25.5 million today for injuries he suffered at an Atlantic Boulevard gym that left him a quadriplegic.

The bulk of the award is for medical expenses required by Shane Downey, 32, who was injured on a piece of tumbling equipment in 2000, said his attorney, Mitch Woodlief.

Jurors found North Florida Gymnastics and Cheerleading 100 percent negligent for not supervising Downey on the equipment. Downey, who now lives in Texas, fell and broke his neck.

Jacksonville.com

I’m suspicious of the American legal system. Not knowing any of the details, I’m still wondering how the coach can be 0% responsible. Leave a comment if you know anything of this incident.

She’s on the U.S. national tumbling team and won gold in Double Mini and Tumbling at this year’s Age Group Games in the 13-14 age group. She’s also the Double Mini and Tumbling U.S. Junior Champion.

Click PLAY or watch her 2009 VISA Championships tumbling lines on YouTube.

No deduction for “chest low” on landing on that piked full-in.

KiaraNowlin.com

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

That’s Mai Murakami whom Blythe on Gymnastics Examiner referred to as The next women’s gymnastics superstar?

Want to see a double double? She can do it — as a second pass. A 3.5 twist? Showed it in September. A double layout? Not a problem. A triple full? Does it on floor, does it off beam.

The Japanese women’s gymnastics team is certainly on the ascent.

More videos like this on the Gibson Athletics SaltoCafe YouTube channel.

Update – Andy Thornton’s take on Murakami. He feels Japan could push for a team medal, perhaps even by next World Championships.