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).
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. …
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.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 