Year: 2010

Vanessa Zamarippa (UCLA) and Casey Jo Magee (Arkansas) competed in National Elite Qualifiers in an attempt to reach VISA Championships.

I saw that on Aunt Joyce’s new Formspring blog.

UPDATE from Shergymrag:

Vanessa made it. She got her 54 for Optionals and made the 36 for compulsories (she needed 35). It looks like she got the highest compulsory score. …

Casey didn’t make it …

At the Bieger International Gymnastics qualifier Vanessa scored 36.80 (all results PDF).

Gymnastike has details – Vanessa Zamarripa, Brandie Jay, and more Qualify for 2010 US Championships

After months of unreliability, evil Facebook seems now to be consistently putting Gymnastics Coaching posts on our Facebook page. If you use Facebook, you can click LIKE on that page and get regular updates on your own Facebook.

The LIKE button at the bottom of each post does nothing except notify others that you liked that particular content.

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Happy Birthday to gymnast and coach, both born June 12th.

1992 Olympics AA.

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(link via a DIScussion in the comments)

I’d call Shannon an ectomorph with mesomorphic tendencies.

A quirky, unusual montage.

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Over 175,000 views.

Intense, original choreography.

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Recommended by Valérie Oudin.

… Known for her unique artistry and spectacular skills, Strazheva was a member of the gold medal-winning Soviet team at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and the 1989 World Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart. She suffered a torn ligament in her knee during her optional balance beam routine in Seoul, and was unable to finish the competition. …

International Gymnast – 2009 interview

Today Olga is a physical education professor in her native Zaporozhye, Ukraine.

Will be honoured tonight.

Congratulations.

… From 1966 through 1999, when the program was dropped along with wrestling and men’s swimming, Mitchell’s Lobo men’s gymnasts were among the most consistent winners the University of New Mexico has produced in athletics. His teams won 11 conference titles and finished second on seven occasions. …

… Saturday, at the UNM Student Union Building, Mitchell will be the guest of honor at a UNM gymnastics reunion.

“This is amazing,” Mitchell said in a phone interview. “I can’t believe they’re doing this. I’ll be seeing people I haven’t seen in 20, 30 years.” …

Mitchell: A Coach Worth Toasting

Dean Potter is one of the most interesting extreme athletes in history.

A childhood fear became Dean’s destiny.

Dean Potter is characterized by creativity, commitment and challenge. He started climbing as a child, with a free solo fall from a stone wall as one of his earliest memories. Since that time, he has speed soloed Half Dome and El Capitan, Cerro Torre, and Fitzroy. He was the first to make a one-day free ascent of El Cap and Half Dome, and a one-day speed linkup of both of those big walls and Mount Watkins, Yosemites third Grade VI wall. He has also established testpiece crack routes in the Utah desert and highball boulder problems in Yosemite.

Dean has walked the longest highlines, often without a safety leash, though he has dedicated over a decade of engineering and testing to create the safest highline systems currently used. Most recently, he has combined BASE jumping skill with highlining and free soloing, using a specially engineered ultralight BASE rig as his backup system. …

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Tom Otjes, from Cirque du Soleil, just got back from China. He did some touring with talent scout Jun Chen.

Tom posted this photo on Facebook.

The gyms in China are certainly improving!