A glimpse at the cool cops chasing hippies trampoline act in the Cirque du Soleil’s Beatles show LOVE.
It’s much tougher than it looks.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Posted by Marceline Goldstein from Cirque Casting on Facebook.
Year: 2010
Shaun White lands Double McTwist
Shaun White suffered a terrible crash at the Winter X Games Friday night while attempting a trick called the Double McTwist.
Then he went on to win his third straight title at the superpipe final at Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado.
Click PLAY or watch the Double McTwist on YouTube.
The 2006 Olympic gold medalist pulled off his newly patented Double McTwist 1260 in the first run of the superpipe finals to score a 95.33 – 1.67 points better than Iouri Podladtchikov of Switzerland.
… White is a favorite going into the Olympics.
The poster boy for the X Games practiced his new trick at a secret location.
Click PLAY or watch it on GrindTV.
http://static.grindtv.com/1.2.2407/swf/video.swf?sa=1&si=1&i=45513&sct=
The pipe sits at an elevation of 12,300 feet, making it the highest pipe ever. It cost over $500k to construct and was funded by both Red Bull and Oakley. …
Hall of Fame gymnast Polina Astakhova
Polina Astakhova 1936-2005
Polina Astakhova was was a Soviet/Ukrainian gymnast who won ten medals (five gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze medals) at the Summer Olympics, where she participated as a member of the USSR team in 1956, 1960 and 1964.
She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2002.
If you show this tribute video to gymnasts today, they’ll laugh.
They’ve never known an era when adult women were World Champions. And when grace and artistry won the competition.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via The Couch Gymnast)
The first of the young, big trick gymnasts was Olga Korbut at the 1972 Olympics. She lost to the more mature traditional routines of Ludmilla Tourischeva.
Nadia and Nellie Kim ushered in the sport we know today in 1976. Young girls doing very big difficulty.
new NCAA gymnastics ranking lists
Despite a disastrous start to the season, Georgia is still ranked 9th.
As entertaining as the first 4wks of competition have been, when we get to Nationals 2010 I expect it will be the same contenders as usual.
see the full team ranking list
see the full AA list
teaching forward handspring
Troy Wright has started a great discussion on Coaching Gymnastics in the new Millenium:
… The biggest thing that I would stress about FHS on floor is that I try and do about a gazillion times more front handspring step-outs than front handsprings to two feet. …
His article is supported by videos posted on Troy’s YouTube channel. Click PLAY or watch one sample on YouTube.
If you’ve got a comment, post it on the video or on New Millenium: Basics, Basics, Basics!!! Training the Front Handspring on Floor – Part I
I have a question.
Is he not worried about very flexible gymnasts doing too many “fast forward walkover” type handsprings early in the development phase? Flexible kids should be doing mostly tight flysprings, I feel.
… But I’ll post that question on the blog.
UCLA 196.55 with a fall on beam
I’m still thinking UCLA will be the team to beat at Nationals. They have so much depth.
And sometime soon they’ll find a consistent line-up.
… UCLA Gymnastics team recorded season-high marks on three events and came within .05 of its season-high team total in a 196.55-193.475 victory over Arizona State on Sunday afternoon. The Bruins had nine scores of 9.9 or better and earned season-highs of 49.475 on floor and 49.35 on vault and bars.
Bruin senior Anna Li won the all-around with a 39.45 …
Bruins Near Season-High Team Score In Win Over Arizona State
The Borkan – Geinger low to high
After seeing the The Grable – Jaeger 1/1 low to high, ch recalled a similar skill.
This is Lindsay Borkan, who competed for Penn State.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Still difficult to do without deduction, but much “cleaner” than the Grable.
I’ve seen this skill before done by other gymnasts. I assume it was not named the Borkan.
From American Academy of Gymnastics, as a club gymnast, Lindsay was coached by the great Leonard Issacs in Wheeling, Ill.
Anton Kushnir – Aerial skier
Aerial skiing became an official medal event at the 1994 Olympics. It’s extreme, to say the least.
Anton Kushnir will be officially crowned World Cup men’s overall aerials champion at the this weekend’s Canada Post Freestyle Grand Prix at Mont Gabriel and head into the Vancouver Olympics as the favourite to win the gold medal. …
Quadruple somersaults are not allowed in competition.
Alabama stays #1 next week
Roll Tide!
This score should keep them at the top of the team rankings.
The No. 1 ranked Alabama Gymnastics team posted its second highest score of the season, a 196.600 here Saturday night on the Penn State campus to beat the No. 19 Penn State Nittany Lions (196.025) and No. 23 Minnesota Golden Gophers (192.825) in front of 2,046 fans in Rec Hall. …
“The biggest thing for us tonight was we displayed great teamwork,” Alabama head coach Sarah Patterson said. “We had some inconsistencies to work through – adjusting to the equipment and people who weren’t 100-percent – and I altered our lineup to ensure our success in the future. I’m very proud that the people we inserted stepped up and performed well. We must have had six different lineups at different points tonight, it was definitely a long working night at the office.”
Morgan Dennis won the AA with a 39.275.
Shawn Johnson on Miss America tonight
Olympic gold medalist gymnast Shawn Johnson will be a judge of the 2010 Miss America Pageant. …
The pageant takes place at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:00PM CST. You can watch it on TLC.
Great honour? … Rush Limbaugh is one of the other judges.
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