Year: 2011

Just for fun …

Sabrina Gill at age 9 performing Beyond the Sea. Sabrina took dance lesson for 4 years before she left dance to focus on gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Sabrina is now a young Senior.

And some new (weird) V-sit.

Click PLAY or watch his Rings from Bercy on YouTube.

I love Danny trying one ultra difficult Victorian. But to go for two is an example of how this Code is not working. He thinks his score will go up more by the increased Difficulty score than it will go down for imperfect execution.

This looks like fun.

That’s posted on Woodward Cheer Camp’s Photos on Facebook.

Robots can now catch balls with an 80 percent success rate. How long before we have a robot that can spot gymnastics? 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Rollin’ Justin on YouTube.

Jeremy linked to a related post – 6 Shocking Ways Robots Are Already Becoming Human

AlexD from Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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Cirque’s Marceline Goldstein linked to this video on Facebook.

People are spending more time inside mobile applications on average than they are on the web, according to an analysis from Flurry, a mobile analytics firm. …

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It’s been a couple of years since the last update of this site. Any update would be mainly to improve the experience on phones and tablets.

Leave a comment if you have an opinion on this.

via @JasonShen

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (15min)

When I was a gymnast, in the distant past, our biggest overuse injury was shin splints. We ran, tumbled and vaulted on hard surfaces.

Happily, shin splints in Artistic gyms is now rare. Most clubs have only one or two kids with mild cases. (‘Pommel Pains‘, forearm splints, are as big a problem as ever.)

My running friends tell me that compression wear does work. … I’m wondering if any of those few gymnasts still suffering shin splints had experimented with these:

details on this brand

Leave a comment if you’ve tried them.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Paul is today a big star in Cirque du Soleil. Vitali Marinich is Head Coach at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

That video was posted on the WTFgymnasticsvideos YouTube channel. Extreme stuff.

It may have originally been posted by igorgymn1.

Available USA only.

Lifehacker recommends …

Most fitness apps for iOS will teach you to stretch and exercise through specific demonstrations, but iMuscle takes it a step further by actually showing you the muscles in action.

It works by providing a ton of animated diagrams that are accessible with just a touch. When you launch the app, you just grope the part of the muscular body you want to work on and it’ll stick a few pins in it. Each pin corresponds to a muscle (or muscle group) and its associated exercises and stretches. Touching any of the exercises or stretches will provide you with an animated demonstration, written instructions, and pictures of the affected muscles. …

iMuscle Teaches You to Stretch and Exercise by Literally Showing You the Muscles in Action

If you like that, check out similar apps for the Skeletal System and Muscular System.

Thanks for the link, Warren.