Year: 2010

A public University in California, UCLA is under threat of funding cuts by the Governator. The California State budget is a disaster.

NCAA Floor Champion Brittani McCullough – Why she owes UCLA.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via ioucla.org)

One bit of good news: Cal State Fullerton Gymnastics survives for another season.

New blog … about Artistic Gymnastics.

Norma is posting beautiful and/or interesting photos of WAG gymnasts and more on a Tumblr blog.

check it out – It’s About Artistic Gymnastics

(via GymNiceTic)

Spanny F. Tampson reinterprets the Gatorade – Revolution TV spot (VIDEO).

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’ll post some of the highlights from last weekend’s USA Jr Olympic Championships.

On the MAG side, the big story was this rivalry in the Level 10 (age 16-18) division.

… It was two days of virtually perfect gymnastics. Both gymnasts not only hit twelve events over two days, but also executed them nearly flawlessly. Mikulak’s second-day score of 91.55 and Silverstein’s 91.00 are the highest ever JO Nationals all-around scores under the present scoring system. …

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Click PLAY or watch Sam Mikulak’a vault on YouTube.

full results of the MAG Championships 2010

• Kayla Williams now training at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. Full In Full Out welcomes her.

• Kytra Hunter‘s ankle injury is healing. Should be ready for VISA Championships. Will be a Gator next season.

• Bridget Sloan‘s ankle injury at Pacific Rim looks to be minor, too.

• Jade Barbosa is training in Brazil (VIDEO), despite the necrotic injury to her capitate bone that cannot be treated.

• Kristina Baskett, goddess, does a triathalon photoshoot. She’s performing in Le Reve, Las Vegas.

• Courtney Kupets, the greatest College gymnast of all time, just graduated from Georgia. She’ll be working in the College of Charleston Athletic Department next year. (via @CourtneyKupets)

• Chellsie Memmel not “retired”. Merely taking a break. (VIDEO)

• Amy Chow starting private practice as a general pediatrician. And getting married.

Photo of the week …

Bela Karolyi carries Kerri Strug at her wedding. (via Aunt Joyce)

related post – media perpetuates the myth of Kerri Strug

Want more? Click through to Gymnastics Examiner – The gymnastics week in review

Japanese stars Koko Tsurumi and World champion Kohei Uchimura each won a third consecutive Japanese National title this weekend in Tokyo, Japan. …

details on Gymnastics Examiner

Uchimura scored 92.675 on day 2 when he hit all 6 apparatus.

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German Fabian Hambuchen is scheduled to compete in July at the Japan Cup. He’s Uchimura’s strongest competition, I’d say.

by site editor Rick McCharles

The world’s biggest employer of acrobats needs more. I’ll be assisting at one of the rare “open” auditions. (Normally athletes need be invited.)

Coaches, if you have any athletes you think perfect for Cirque, recommend this opportunity.

OPEN AUDITIONS – ATHLETES – KAMLOOPS – MAY 30, 2010

We are seeking new talent for our current shows and upcoming creations.

ACROBATIC, ARTISTIC & RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS – DIVING – SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING – TRAMPOLINE – TUMBLING – OTHER SPORTS

LOCATION: Kamloops Gymnastics & Trampoline Centre
910 McGill Road (Tournament Capital Centre), Kamloops, B.C. V2C 6N6

Please be on-site to register at 9 a.m. Latecomers will not be admitted.

Candidates under 18 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or by a guardian with written authorization from a parent. Please bring a photo, resumé and demo video of your skills.

There’s no specific link to this event, but you can get general information on jobs on the Cirque du Soleil website.

____ By the way, like last year, Cirque shows in Vegas this Summer are on sale starting at $50. These are the lowest prices ever. Note that O is conspicuously not on the list.

We get this request from Martin by email. The bolding is mine:

Martin Fisher. B.Sc., M.B.A.
C.E.O.
Bescot Healthcare Canada, Inc.
http://www.BescotHealth.com

My company, Bescot Healthcare Canada, has the rights for distribution in Canada of a product out of the UK called IncoStress (www.incostress.ca). It is a small and discreet vaginal device that helps women overcome Urinary Stress Incontinence by exerting a little pressure on the Urethra, as well as helping to hold the bladder in an anatomically correct position, and helping to tone and strengthen the pelvic floor muscles. This is not an exercise device, but rather something that can be worn for up to 8 hours and during activity.

We do not have any data yet to support any claims in elite athletes, but we do have anecdotal stories out of the UK of women who run benefiting from the product.

From our research we know that elite women athletes do suffer with this condition, primarily due to the strain they put on their pelvic floor muscles, either through weight training, or just the pounding of the feet on the ground (or through the tramp as in the case of trampolinists.

We would like to do a pilot with some elite women athletes who suffer, and I wondered if you might be able to connect me with some people who may be in a position to help us achieve this, if not yourself. …

If you would like the papers of the quantification of this disability in elite women athletes I would be glad to pass them on to you, …

Martin.

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I’ve not heard of lack of bladder control in older gymnasts or trampolinists. If you have, or have athletes with this problem, even if you are not from Canada, email Martin directly:

martinfisher {AT} bescothealth.com

It sounds like a useful product.

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Update: 1984 Olympic Champion Mary Lou Retton suffered from “Overactive Bladder” all her life. She was diagnosed, finally, at age-35 and is now taking a once-a-day medication.

Thanks

Shawn Johnson comeback getting quite a bit of support online (IG forum poll).

Spanny Tampson is a believer.

Click PLAY or watch a Rocky – Shawn Johnson mash-up on YouTube.

I’m a doubter.

But if Shawn used Eye of the Tiger for Floor music, as ApolytonGP suggested, I could be won over.

UK trampoline and tumbling coach Damien Walters is the #1 athlete in parkour, at least online.

Hist latest, posted April 30th, is well over 1.5 million views already on YouTube.

The first stunt terrified me. At first. But the highlight is him getting dressed while tumbling. That’s talent!

Click PLAY or watch Damien on YouTube.

(via FlipCatch)