Year: 2011

Aunt Joyce on the last Karolyi camp:

Douglas won the camp for the seniors (Raisman and Wieber didn’t have to verify based on their performances at the American Cup.)

Aerial walkover to back 1/1.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam at Jesolo training on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MTUzNDc3NjM5

Watch more video of Trofeo Citta de Jesolo International Competition on gymnastike.org

Brigid on Facebook has heard that this routine could be 6.7 if everything is credited.

The Couch Gymnast linked to the Youtube channel Ginnastica Artistica Gymnasium TV, which will become the new favorite of all hard-core U.S. fans for the next four days. Why? Because the U.S. women are in Jesolo, and said channel has training videos.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Video notes: U.S. women’s training in Jesolo

Click PLAY or watch Kyla Ross BARS on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch McKayla Maroney VAULT on YouTube.

… That concept of ‘dance in, dance out’ on balance beam is one of the defining characteristics of the apparatus in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG). It is the ability to combine acrobatic elements and dance elements with choreography to display “sureness of execution” …

Compare “five very different beam routines, deciding which are the most pleasurable routines to watch, based on how well they integrate their choreography with their skills“.

Diving – Quad Synchro 10m

It is a feat of competition diving so difficult it was once thought impossible …

Teenage star Tom Daley and his Olympic partner Pete Waterfield completed four-and-a-half somersaults in under two seconds – the blink of an eye it takes to hit the water from the 10-metre board. And what’s more, they did it synchronised …

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Click over to the Daily Mail to see just how synchronized they were.

(via Bloop)

This site needs more diving posts. Leave a comment if you are an expert who might like to contribute.

And leave a comment if you’ve a link to a video of The Big Front.

Did you see these stories?

Gymnastics Examiner:

• North Korean gymnasts are still not going to the Olympic Games …

“North Korea has also banned Hong [Su Jong] for life and ordered her to return all medals and titles as the result of grave negligence and damage caused to the Association’s reputation.” As though Hong was the one responsible for falsifying her age! What bull****.

• Daniel Keatings is back from his knee injury, competing all-around at the London Men’s Open

• Ling Jie’s wedding via Chinese Gymnastics Blog

Continue reading on Examiner.com: The gymnastics week in review: Scandal, violence and natural disasters and more …

Congratulations Kyna.

Gymnastics Canada has announced the appointment of Ms. Kyna Fletcher as the new Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) National Team Director.

As an NCCP Level IV coach, sport administrator, BC Provincial Coach and passionate volunteer chair of the GCG WAG Program Assembly for the past 12 years, Ms. Fletcher brings a broad range of knowledge and expertise to this new position. Her professional work experience and interpersonal skills will be a great asset for the federation.

More recently, Ms. Fletcher has taken on additional responsibilities with Gymnastics Canada to include a leadership role with the WAG National Team. She has been the WAG Team Leader to the 2010 Pacific Rim Championships and 2010 World Championships and coordinating National Team program preparation activities such as training camps and sport science program support.

Ms. Fletcher has a very good understanding of the Canadian gymnastics delivery system and a leadership and communication style that brings people together. She is passionate about gymnastics and very excited to join the Gymnastics Canada staff.

As the WAG National Team Director, Ms. Fletcher will be responsible for the direction and management of the Senior, Junior and Youth National Team Programs. She will work closely with the Program Director, the coaches of National Team athletes and other technical advisers to the National Team program.

Gymnastics B.C.

I see no mention of the appointment on Gymnastics Canada.

… Is somebody updating that site?

I’ve heard exactly nothing in advance of our National Team selection meet. Leave a comment if you’ve seen details / articles / press release on the event.

Looks like results will be posted here. Thanks Stu.

March 17-19th, 2011
Location : Turner Fenton Secondary School, Brampton, Ontario

Schedule (PDF)

Map

Update –

… Since moving up to the men’s senior team over two years ago Kevin Lytwyn has been honing in steadily on the goal every competitive gymnast dreams about but only a select few get the chance to live: a trip to compete at the Olympic Games. …

This year’s men’s Elite Canada competition … March 18-19, promises to be a showcase for every gymnast with a shot at the Olympics and, an important competition for competitors as young as 12 all the way up to the national senior team. …

Kevin Lytwyn ready for Elite Canada and more

Announced today …

AUSTRALIA: Georgia-Rose Brown, Britt Greeley, Tierra Exum, Emily Little, Katie Wurth

CANADA: Kristin Klarenbach, Jessica Savona, Sabrina Gill, Mikaela Gerber, Coralie Leblond-Chartrand, Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto

CHINA: JIANG Yuyuan, HUANG Huidan & SHANG Chunsong

Canadian Jr Team includes …

Jordan Pedersen
Natalie Vaculik
Megan Chant

Wild Rose home page

coach Sue Manjak and Sabrina Gill

Will photographer Grace Chiu be there?

Rumours of the death of NCAA Division 1 men’s gymnastics program at Cal Berkeley have been exaggerated. There’s still hope. But not much time.

A committee from Cal Gymnastics Forever met with the Athletic Director, Sandy Barbour & Deputy Athletic Director Steve Holten on March 2nd 2011. It was spelled out very clearly that the Chancellor was open to the idea reinstatement if we come to the table with 4 million dollars in pledges spanning a 5 year period. …

Details on Cal Gymnastics Forever.

Send questions / suggestions to Andrew Hampy at calmensgymnastics@gmail.com or P.O. Box 1762, Oakland, CA 94604.

Thanks Shelli.

Bad news for our sport. This story has hit the mainstream media. The general public will assume that all judges cheat. … Or all Chinese judges.

FIG:

… brought a disciplinary suit against a Chinese Men’s Artistic Gymnastics judge for having violated the ethical code and judging rules.

The incident took place at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou (CHN) in November of 2010, during the Men’s Artistic Floor Final.

A Chinese judge on the Difficulty panel, Mr Shao Bin, modified an Execution score prior to its release without informing either the head Execution judge or the Superior Jury; Mr Bin committed this act upon his own initiative and with complete disregard for the rules in force. His action led to Chinese gymnast Zhang Chenglong’s ascent from second to first place, tied with Kim Soo Myun of Korea …

photo via IG

I don’t see how there could be any appeal on behalf of Shao Bin.

GymNiceTic posted those routines if you want to see them.

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Note how even the Difficulty judge in this case was aware of what Execution score was needed for a medal in the Floor final.

Be aware that all the WAG judges at American Cup knew exactly what execution score Jordyn Wieber needed on Floor to win the All-around.

Update: Some felt the last sentence (above) was some sort of slight against Jordyn. Or that specific judging panel.

Not so.

My point is as stated – good judges at the end of the meet know what score is needed to put an athlete on the podium.

In the case of American Cup, they knew, and decided that Jordyn should win the AA. And I agreed (eventually) that was the correct ranking. Kudos to the American Cup judges for getting that ranking right, despite the appearance of yet another SCAm.