Year: 2011

Two big international competitions in Alberta two weekends from now:

• Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival (MAG Friday) – start list

• Wild Rose (WAG Saturday)
As of 28.02.11–

AUSTRALIA: Georgia-Rose Brown, Britt Greeley, Tierra Exum, Emily Little, Katie Wurth
CANADA: (Names to be announced soon)
CHINA: JIANG Yuyuan, HUANG Huidan & SHANG Chunsong

Jenn Isbister of Gymn.ca will be driving back-and-forth between them.

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I checked with coach Kelly Manjak. Sabrina Gill (54.925) Facebook is not age eligible for Worlds in Tokyo … but she is age eligible for Worlds in London, a few months later.

(Yes, FIG managed to make a bad age requirement rule worse this cycle. There’s a chance now that the Olympic Champion will have been deemed too young for Worlds the year prior.)

I assume the same is true for Victoria Moors (55.925).

Correct me in the comments if I’m wrong on their ages.

Those scores from Gymnix last weekend could help Canada qualify as a team for the Olympics, … but only in London, not Tokyo. One possible strategy for the Canucks is to plan to peak for London, not Tokyo.

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Olympic silver medalist in Trampoline Jason Burnett is back in action after a year injured. (He did some goofball double side parkour move, breaking his leg in the process.)

Also back in action is Canadian T&T star Denis Vachon who is making a comeback. He had retired to coaching after Worlds Quebec City.

“High Bar” was originally a low German name for a horizontal bar for hanging up cloths, sausages or plates, and in chicken stalls for sitting places of the poultry – and was taken by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852) as name for the gymnastics apparatus introduced by him in 1812. …

Already jugglers of late Hellenistic and of early Chinese times, and even Eskimos have performed giant swings. …

Already at the Olympic Games 1908 in London a gymnast performed a double somersaulto …

… read more

Each Wednesday we are linking to a different apparatus posted on GymMEDIA – Apparatus HISTORY. (English and German)

Great Britain took gold and silver in the Gymnix Junior beam final!

Gaby Jupp was the overall winner with a score of 14.025 and Angel Romaeo was just 0.375 behind. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

See Angel’s routine on littlemissgymnast.

Gymnix Sr Champion. Gymnast of the Week in anyone’s books.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… Is it my imagination, or are more and more gymnasts actually putting some energy into the choreography? As Julie does well here.

via @intlgymnast

The question — Which country is going to be the biggest surprise of 2011? — was posed to gymnastics bloggers from around the world. Here’s what they had to say about the women’s teams:

Continue reading The Discussion …

My wild guess was Romania … but for a different reason than some others.

That image is from Elite Gymnastics Stars … something like The Onion for gymnastics.

Nike is the goddess of strength, speed, and victory. ..

Shawn is Nike, but with better abs. … hmm

Inside Gymnastics:

We’ve just learned that Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson has signed an endorsement deal with athletic giant Nike!

… she’ll be wearing Nike cross training and workout gear, according to her agent Sheryl Shade. Johnson will continue to wear GK leotards. …

For an in-depth feature on Johnson, check out our February issue cover story, available in our shopping cart, under Back Issues.

To follow Shawn Johnson, Nike and Inside Gymnastics on Twitter:

Twitter.com/ShawneyJ
Twitter.com/Nikestore
Twitter.com/InsideGym

I’ve just subscribed to this site, edited by Cedrick Willian.

It has a built in Google Translate button.

Gym Blog Brazil

… never-seen-before secret footage of Bruce Lee?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Actually it’s a viral TV ad.

… made to promote the Nokia N96 Bruce Lee edition phone, a $1,290 mobile device — approximately 8,788 Chinese yuan — available only in Hong Kong and China. …

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It was created by Agency.Asia. Details on the bottom of this page.

With Figure Skating Worlds Tokyo postponed, many were wondering what would happen to Artistic Worlds scheduled for Oct. 7-16th.

FIG TV Rights & Sales Manager Olivier Strebel:

…. The earthquake occurred just before my flight landed in Tokyo and it took 24 hours to land in from above Tokyo. But it’s nothing to me considering people who became victims of the disaster. I would like to extend my deep condolence to the deceased people and pray for Japan’s earliest possible recovery. Although in this kind of situation, people welcomed me very warmly and I would like to express my gratitude for their kindness from the bottom of my heart.

Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, the competition venue for the championships was impressive in terms of the size as well as facilities. …

Mr. Watanabe, Secretary General of the Organizing Committee for the World Championships promised me to make the best possible competition. After the inspection, now I’m quite confident that we can make the best competition. …

read more on the official competition website – Mr. Strabel of FIG Visits Japan for Inspection

Thanks Ono.

Bruno Grandi:

… “We are deeply troubled by the intensity with which catastrophe has struck Japan, and on behalf of the FIG authorities I would like to extend to you the sympathy of an entire international Gymnastics community. We stand beside you in a spirit of solidarity, ready to face this tragedy at your side; we will come to your aid and help you rebuild,” …

by Rick McCharles

As editor of Gymnastics Coaching I track what’s happening online with gymnastics, trampoline and acrobatic sports.

The state of the Gymternet for competitive Artistic Gymnastics has never been better. But for Recreation Gymnastics, there are very few good sites.

To fill that void, I launched RecGymnastics.com in January 2011. There are more than 50 posts already, and the site is highly ranked for a search of “Rec Gymnastics” and “Recreation Gymnastics“.

It’s set up to be a site with multiple bloggers. Posting is as easy as Facebook.

If you are interested in sharing text, photos and/or videos of non-competitive gymnastics, email me at Rick_McCharles@hotmail.com.

I’ll set you up.

Check a sample post on RecGymnastics.com – introducing Rope climb