Year: 2011

Blythe Lawrence caught up on the major happenings of late. A few stories I missed:

• Daniel Keatings returned to AA competition at Scottish Championships.

• She’s the NCAA’s no. 1 all-around gymnast. But before coming to college, Penn State’s Sharaya Musser battled a life-threatening MRSA infection.

• Record crowds in Utah: More than 15,000 fans showed up to watch the Utes take on the no. 1 Florida Gators in Salt Lake City Friday night.

• Chrystal Chollet-Norton steps down as coach of Rutgers

• Dutch injury woes

• coach Bob Nelligan in Bermuda

• Remembering Frank Bare

• 25 cents from the sale of each stamp will go to support German athletes

details on Gymnastics Examiner – The gymnastics month in review

Kerensa is a Canadian gymnast with a goal to compete in the NCAA.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on YouTube.

Update. Click PLAY or watch a recent Beam routine on YouTube.

See her recruiting site on GymDynasty.

You can get a site like that for your gymnast by contacting Sara Gill via GymDynasty.

The latest tutorial by JAO.

Training back hip circles with an emphasis on getting into the tap swing in the level 5 routine.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

In addition to the cast to ‘hollow’ position, I like to have beginners do some from cast to ‘archy’ position. (The timing of the late drop is easier.)

Simultaneous with these drills, it would be ideal that the gymnast is learning backward uprise to backward hip circle on straps bar.

If you’re not confident to spot the ‘airplane propeller’, the alternative is to do backward hip circle series without spot until the gymnast can do 2 or 3 in series with speed and tight body. That will take longer, however.

The South Korean female artistic gymnastics squad has hired a Chinese coach to prepare for next year’s Summer Olympics, South Korean officials said Tuesday.

Chen Shijing will join South Korean gymnasts at the National Training Center in Taeneung, northern Seoul, later Tuesday, according to the Korea Gymnastics Association. Chen had been a coach at a Chinese national training center built by Li Ning, a three-time Olympic gymnastics gold medalist. …

Yonhap

They hope to qualify for the London Olympics with a full team.

That’s via the Chinese Gymnastics Blog.

On this weekend in Montreal.

In this photo: Coralie Leblond-Chartrand

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The Tide is ranked #2 this week and could win it all at Championships.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via College Gymnastics Board)

Without any doubt, the parallel bars are an invention of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, who put up three trestles in his “Hasenheide” in Berlin …

Initially, the parallel bars were set in the ground. About 30cm under the ground they were fixed with a wooden plank …

Gymnastics at parallel bars were also part of the Olympic Games in Athens 1896.

The German Alfred Flatow is the first Olympic Champion on bars …

In Helsinki in 1952, there were still a lot of broken poles (at the uneven bars as well); only in the mid 1950ies the German Richard Reuther presented “multipurpose parallel bars”. …

… read more

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

Kyle Shewfelt has announced the tentative line-up at his inaugural competition March 25th.

Friday night’s Men’s Artistic competition will be an important international meet. Canada competes against the GOLD (China) and BRONZE (USA) medal nations from the Beijing Olympics.

USA
1. Dylan Akers
2. Andrew Elkind
3. Tyler Mizoguchi
4. Jesse Silverstein

CHINA
1. Lu Bo
2. Tong Yingjie
3. Liu Rongbing
4. Wu Guanhua

CANADA
1. Nathan Gafuik
2. Jayd Lukenchuk
3. Anderson Loren
4. Brandon O’Neill
5. Jackson Payne

Marco Mayr (Austria)

details on Kyle Shewfelt Gym Fest

The following night the Chinese women compete at Wild Rose, 3rs away in Edmonton. (warm-ups at 5:15pm)

A real fan could catch both international meets the same weekend. 🙂

Justin Caouette brings us the second part of his series on the most watched routines on Youtube. …

Click PLAY or watch Nadia on YouTube.

Isn’t it nice to see a continually moving routine?

see the rest on Couch Gymnast – The most watched routines: Beam

I can’t think of anyone online who complained more vociferously than I in the past about the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup events.

They’ve been lousy for decades, despite those years when Hardy Fink and the Men’s Technical Committee tried in vain to make improvements.

So when the first in the latest revamp – American Cup 2011 – was interesting and entertaining, I want to be positive.

Let’s give it a fair shot.

… That how I felt until I read Nora’s post on THE ALL AROUND – Editorial: FIG Masters Time Travel

We’ve got problems.