Year: 2010

A leaping catch 19ft 10in.

And a high forward pike salto into shoulder roll attenuating the landing force over time and surface area.

Fight Science is a television program shown on the National Geographic Channel in which scientists and martial arts masters work together to analyze the world’s fighting techniques …

Click PLAY or watch a segment on YouTube.

Read the comments on that YouTube video. Many are irked that a “science” show branded with National Geographic sensationalizes a simple shoulder roll.

We live in the era of reality TV.

(via FlipCatch)

Love this pic of Utah’s Kyndal Robarts.

From the Facebook album: Red Rocks Photo Shoot by Preston Norris

(photo via GymFever and Full Twist)

Good luck !!

Michel Charron, Liz Brubaker, Valerie Oudin, Emma Willis, Catherine Dion, Gabrielle May, Kristin Klarenbach, Cynthia Lemiux.

From the Facebook album: Women’s Commonwealth Games Team 2010 by Craig Smith

China and Russia are the leading nations. This was the second last international meet before World Championships.

Dong Dong and Huang Shanshan (CHN) prevailed in the men’s and women’s trampoline finals of the sixth World Cup of the 2010 World Cup Series that took place … in Loule, Portugal.

Grégoire Pennes-Sébastien Martiny (FRA) and Kirsten Boersma-Tara Fokke (NED) took the gold in the synchronized trampoline events.

Timofey Podust (RUS) and Anna Korobeynikova (RUS) triumphed in tumbling.

Acrobatic Sports

Tumblers Alex Seifert and Emily Smith, Canada

Added by Brett MacAulay to the Facebook group “CGC – Calgary Gymnastics Centre”

(via Gymnastics Alberta)

A success. Congratulations.

2010 NATIONAL GYMSPORTS CHAMPIONSHIPS – Hamilton
24th – 28th September 2010

… New Zealand’s Commonwealth Games gymnastics team are “raring to go” to India this week after a successful weekend at the National Championships in Hamilton.

Rhythmic gymnast Mereana Rademakers, who won the senior international rhythmic title at Mystery Creek yesterday, said she was “excited and focused” on the challenge ahead.

“This is what we train for. We have had a boot camp in Bulgaria and a competition in Italy followed by nationals this weekend and we are totally ready to go,” she said.

Rather than worry about conditions at the Games, which have been racked by controversy over unfinished facilities, Rademakers, 19, said she was placing her trust in the New Zealand Olympic Committee and GymSports New Zealand who she said “would not put athletes at risk”.

“I train 25 hours a week and have put my MBA (business degree) at Canterbury University on hold for this opportunity – I plan to make the most of it,” she said. …

read more – Stuff

With all the earthquakes in Christchurch, Delhi may be a relief. They can sleep through the night.

Commonwealth Games Team:

Rhythmic gymnastics: Keziah Oliver, Kimberley Robson, Mereana Rademakers.

Women’s artistic gymnastics: Holly Moon, Lani Hohepa, Jordan Rae, Briana Mitchell.

Men’s artistic gymnastics: Misha Koudinov, Matthew Palmer, Patrick Peng, Mark Holyoake, Brandon Field.

I’m researching policies and procedures manuals for youth sports clubs.

Leave a comment if you know of a good template online. Or a service that sells them.

Check this out. Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone is now a business woman, promoting a very interesting product for beam.

$19.99 per pair plus shipping and handling.

shock-sox.com (781-366-4726)

Half socks, half heel pad. Nice.

Inside Gymnastics has a good interview, though it’s heavy on the details of her relationship with Denver Broncos’ backup quarterback Brady Quinn:

…

INSIDE: A comeback, a romance, a new business venture … Anything else you can squeeze in?

SACRAMONE: Obviously I need to finish [college] and get my degree. I promised my dad I would. Right now, I’m on the fence about whether I go back while I’m trying to train, or do I finish up training—ride this out—and go back to school when I’m done? That’s what I’m conflicted with. Obviously I’m going to finish, I just want to figure out when.

INSIDE: And in the gym? Upgrades? A new floor routine perhaps?

SACRAMONE: I’m still just taking it one day at a time. I’m training as much as it takes. Conditioning is what is important. You don’t forget your gymnastics skills overnight. If you’re training and you’re healthy, it makes competing that much easier. That’s what we’re focusing on right now.

Obviously World Championships would be a great way to wrap up this year, but it’s a long competition. If I go, we’re gone for a month. That’s a lot of hard landings, a lot of routines.

I’m definitely really competent with what I’m doing. I don’t know what other people are doing, internationally, but I’m happy with where I am, and right now I’m gonna stick with this. If I need to, I’ll try and work on upgrading for next competitive season.

Floor [sigh] … The thing is, it’s a love-hate relationship with floor. I love competing it, but it’s so grueling for my body. I’ve played around with tumbling and I can do what I was tumbling at the Olympics. [Coach] Mihai (Brestyan) is pushing for it, but I’m taking my time with that one. I’d love to do it, but it’s not going to happen overnight. Maybe next year.

…I’m just trying to keep any injuries from coming. Prevention is key right now for me.

read more on Inside Gymnastics – SACRAMONE SAYS …

Note: … not to be confused with Shock Sox, the motorcycle fork seal.

Coaches complain. But we live in a dream paradise compared to teachers in public schools.

A documentary on an American school system won the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. I really want to see it.

The film analyzes the failures of American public education by following several students through the educational system.

Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.

It features Geoffrey Canada, one of my heros.

Bill Gates is behind the film. It’s getting a lot of buzz.

Yet I’m not sure many school districts have the resources to improve. Where did all those tax dollars go?

Click through to waitingforsuperman.com.

Congratulations.

FIG President, Prof. Bruno Grandi (ITA) will officially open the South African National Gymnastics Academy, at the Matsport Centre based in Centurion, Tshwane, on October 1st, 2010.

The venue has been graciously donated by the City of Tshwane, making the city the new home of Gymnastics development and training in Southern Africa. The facility, in conjunction with the donation of international standard equipment by the FIG, will assist South Africa in its drive to become a top competitor in the international gymnastics arena. …

read more – FIG