Year: 2010

MAG, WAG, Rhythmic, Trampoline and Tumbling

Dec. 2-4 in South Africa

WAG Start List:

ROM: Irina Alexandra Paun, Maria Rauta

RSA: Kristen Beckett, Claudia Cummins, Ashleigh Heldsinger, Jennifer Khwela, Chanel Parsons, Makeeda Phekani, Nicole Szabo

USA: Katelyn Ohashi, Madison Kocian, McKenzie Wofford

WALES: Ramaea Angel, Kiera Brennan, Jessica Hogg, Raer Theaker, Ramaea Venus

Valeri is going as coach of USA.

Participants List

I’m surprised to see Dragalescu there.

(via IG forum)

Having missed the past 2 seasons with injury, I was looking forward to seeing how the wonderkind looks growed up.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.

Still the same old aggressive approach. Let’s give her a couple of meets to remember what it’s like to compete.

She’s going to be a star at UCLA, that’s for sure.

(via Gymn.ca)

We just posted the blind World Champion archer Im Dong-Hyun.

Meet a legally blind competitive gymnast.

Click PLAY to watch here (30sec commercial) or click through to here to watch it without the commercial.

http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf

(via Sports Girls Play)

Couch Gymnast is cheering on Facebook.

In Olympic host England, the government is slashing spending.

But some sports in Australia got bumped up in base funding:

Football ($700,000), hockey ($500,000), surfing ($500,000) and basketball ($500,000) …

… And the success of world gymnastics champion Lauren Mitchell, has been reflected in a rise of almost $400,000 in funding with netball also benefiting to the tune of $700,000.

Gymnastics Australia chief executive Catherine Clark said the increased funding would allow a range of participation programs and new initiatives to be rolled out nationally.

“Gymnastics is much more than just the elite end and we have over 500 clubs who are ready to open their doors to increased participation opportunities across our Gymnastics for all program,” Clark said.

“And importantly this will include strategies and resources to engage schools and school-aged participants.” …

Sports benefit from new govt funding

Australia is one of the few nations where the general public approves of their tax dollars being spent on sport.

http://view.picapp.com//JavaScripts/OTIjs.js

There’s an interesting post on Couch Gymnast right now – Rotterdam Fashion Police: The Leotards

Brigid compares notes with Blythe, the Gymnastics Examiner; Mez of The Australian Gymnastics Blog; and Spanny Tampson of Big Fake Smile

Nitro Circus was was an American television series that featured Travis Pastrana and his friends traveling around the world riding dirtbikes, base jumping, and performing reckless stunts. …

This is fun. Sky diving with wheelchairs, tricycles, boogie boards. And more.

Click PLAY or watch a New Zealand News feature on YouTube.

The reality TV show was canceled after 2 seasons, but there’s still talk of a Nitro Circus 3D Movie. Since Johnny Knoxville is involved, and since Jackass 3D made $50 million on opening weekend, I could see that getting greenlighted.

A lot of creative outdoor Bar combinations.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Hilary asks, What’s the twisting Jaeger variation bar skill at 2min 5sec?

Recall Alexei Bondarenko from Sydney and Athens?

He retired after not qualifying for the Russian team to Beijing.

Now a sponsor is paying for his comeback. He moved to Round Lake (where he lives with his cat Briton) and is planning how to challenge the likes of Uchimura, 10yrs-younger.

Two-time Olympic medalist Alexei Bondarenko: I’m back!

Sovietski Sport Interview (Google Translate)

(via Rewriting Russian Gymnastics)

Check out a clip from TRACES, a show by Les 7 doigts de la main from Montreal, (also called 7 Fingers in USA).

Love the Chinese Hoop Diving acts. … (OK, Wikipedia doesn’t have a listing for it, as yet. YOU should write one.)

Click PLAY or watch this troupe on YouTube.

(via kinesthesist)

The registration package was just posted. Entries are being accepted starting Nov. 29th.

Kyle’s been staying up all night working on it.

photo – Phil Crozier

Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival, hosted at the University of Calgary, the weekend of March 25-27th, 2011.

Casey Jo Magee, NCAA star recently graduated from Arkansas, is training Elite.

11/9/10. First day of trying my new updated routine, minus the turn and dismount. Better execution soon to come.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That mount, the Garrison, is named after another College gymnast who went on to captain the U.S. team at the 1988 Olympics, Kelly Garrison-Steves.

Finishing 7th on Beam in Seoul, the Garrison was in layout is called “stretched” in the Code. Tucked it just might be the Magee.

Thanks Amy for the link.