Year: 2011

Garrison mount and two multiple turns. Cool.

Casey Magee from the Elite Qualifier, Session 2, on February 19, 2011, during the 2011 WOGA Classic in Frisco, TX.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The former Arkansas star has done good. It’s great to see former College gymnasts competing against Elite.

The best feature on the WOGA superstar I’ve yet seen.

read it on Couch Gymnast

Brigid and I both feel Rebecca will be fighting for an Olympic medal in the AA. She’s tough as nails.

Is Rebecca at American Cup watching? … Or home training? 🙂

Click PLAY or watch highlights on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Mjg5NDY4NjY0

Watch more video of Best of February 2011 on gymnastike.org

From Best of February 2011 photos and videos.

Dipa Karmakar:

… ‘If I get suitable equipments, I can easily beat Asian girls including those of China and Japan,’ said Dipa confidently on arriving here late Tuesday evening after setting a record in the National Games. …

I like her attitude.

After setting a record by bagging five golds in the 34th National Games in Jharkhand, Tripura girl Dipa Karmakar now dreams of becoming the best gymnast in Asia.

Sify

Click PLAY or watch her Vault on YouTube. (2010)

Canadian gymnast Ken Ikeda has one of the best Double Pike dismounts I’ve ever seen.

Click PLAY or watch his triple back on YouTube.

Gymnastics Examiner:

Ruslan Panteleymonov, GBR
Cyril Tommassone, FRA
Oleg Stepko, UKR
Daniel Keatings, GBR
Sam Oldham, GBR
Jonathan Horton, USA
Jake Dalton, USA
Kohei Uchimura, JPN
Teng Haibin, CHN
Chen Yibing, CHN
Yuri van Gelder, NED
Philipp Boy, GER
Marcel Nguyen, GER
Fabian Hambuechen, GER
Paul Hamm, USA
Feng Zhe, CHN
Denis Ablyuzin, RUS
David Belyavskiy, RUS
Daniel Purvis, GBR
Epke Zonderland, NED
Ali Al Asi, JOR

Details and linked videos on Gymnastics Examiner.

Here’s the #1 Arab Athlete of 2010 on his best apparatus.

Click PLAY or watch his Rings on YouTube.

USAG is posting photos.

… Mustafina was nearly in tears after some struggles in her jam-packed bars set. Always dramatic both in training and in competition! …

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Gymnastics Examiner is LIVE too:

… Mustafina and Alexandrov left without talking to any reporters. “They are not happy,” I was told. Mustafina’s bar workout certainly left something to be desired, but she did OK on beam, I thought. …

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Live blog: Women’s podium training at the American Cup

… The SCAM is an intense important meet, for a change. Cool.

Blythe has Men’s podium training LIVE, as well.

Already a member of the USA Gymnastics Men’s Senior National Team, U-M student Christopher Cameron sets his sights on the 2012 Olympics in London. …

LSA – Lord of the Rings

Click PLAY or watch his Rings on YouTube.

Chris Cameron is the defending N.C.A.A. all-around men’s gymnastics champion, a member of the University of Michigan’s defending N.C.A.A. championship team, and a rising star for the national squad.

His skill is even more remarkable given that he was born with hemihypertrophy, a congenital abnormality that causes one side of the body to grow faster than the other. At 12, Cameron had a growth plate removed from his fast-growing left leg to allow his right leg to catch up. …

NY Times – Champion Michigan Gymnast Rises Far Above a Disadvantage

At our recent WAG competition with 900 competitors the two biggest medical incidents:

1) sprained ankle
2) a nervous athlete hyperventilating

… Competitive anxiety can be crippling for some athletes. There are several contributing factors that lead to, as some coaches put it, CHOKING under pressure (“it’s hard to stay on the bars with both hands wrapped tightly around your throat,” I once heard one coach say”. …

contributing factors:

Nervous Nelly Personality
Lack of preparation
Outside influences
Fear of failure
Fear of injury
Fear of repercussions
Unproductive Use of Warm Up Time

Full Twist picked up on the topic – Competitive Anxiety in Gymnasts, linking to a post on World of Gymnastics – How to Control your Nerves Before a Gymnastics Meet and on Beam.

And a new post by Alicia Sacramone, one of the most confident appearing gymnasts I’ve ever seen, – Don’t let fear steal your confidence.

Missy Marlowe this past weekend was telling kids of an epiphany she had as one of the best gymnasts in the world: … If she pretended to be confident, she found herself to be far less nervous.

Video footage taken by Nicholas Bock while he and his 2 sons, both gymnasts, traveled to China with coach Guonian Wu to receive a personal and hands-on experience at a Chinese gymnastics school.

In a joint presentation with StickItMedia, Nicholas thoroughly describes for us what a typical day is like for young Chinese gymnasts, who have been selected to live, study and train at a famous sports school. His boys trained for ten days alongside these young Olympic hopefuls in a training system that has already produced numerous Olympic and World Champions.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike. (13min 30sec)

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NDM1NDcxNTgz

Watch more video of Seeking Perfection in China on gymnastike.org

Nicholas Bock:

Last summer, we spent 10 days training gymnastics at the Shi Cha Hai Sports School, which is located in the heart of Beijing China. The school is one of the most famous sports schools in China, producing several Olympic gold medalists in gymnastics …

When we arrived at the gymnastics hall for the first time, we were not impressed with the facilities. The floor was old, the high bar was rusty, the mats were old and torn, and climbing rope was not a rope at all, but an old long wooden pole, dangling from the ceiling. Being jet-lagged, we just watched the Chinese boys train. What we saw was unlike anything I had ever seen before. And after about 30 minutes, I knew why the Chinese dominate so completely. With the help of our coach, Guonian Wu, who was once a Chinese National team member, as well as a Chinese National team coach, we were given permission from the head boy’s coach, a long time friend and teammate of Guonian’s, to videotape. …

read more – Stick It Media – Seeking Perfection in China