Year: 2011

Amanda Turner summarizes what we know about the somewhat underwhelming AA competition in Russia:

… Dementyeva, the youngest member of Russia’s first-place team at last fall’s world championships, scored 58.050 to top two-time Olympian Anna Pavlova (56.200) and Alyona Polyan (55.150).

Dementyeva had the high score on floor exercise (15.100) and Pavlova had the top mark on vault (14.900). First-year senior Yulia Belokobylskaya, one of the contenders for Russia’s four-person squad at the European championships, had the high mark on beam (14.550).

World all-around champion Aliya Mustafina traveled to Penza and took part in podium training, but elected to skip competition to rest for the American Cup on March 5. The only other competing members of the world champion team, Tatiana Nabiyeva and Yekaterina Kurbatova, did two events each.

Youth Olympic Games champion Viktoria Komova competed three events only after spraining her ankle in December. Komova tallied a massive 16.700 on uneven bars but had problems on beam (13.750) and floor (12.900).

read more and see the results on IG

Couch Gymnast and Between The Olympics have a few more details.

Will Mustafina actually be in good shape for American Cup?

This guy will be:

@J_Horton11 – Had a killer workout today. I’m ready for the AT&T American cup next week!

Brandie Jay has a routine is quite different than most, using no true salto releases.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Mjk1NDY1MDY1

Watch more video of 2011 WOGA Classic on gymnastike.org

Smart. … If you can get away with it.

Personally I feel that skill (VIDEO) is the most over valued in the Women’s Code. (G)

I’ve always called it Shushunova, since she was the first to do it internationally. Others sometimes call it 1/1 twisting Tkachev. That’s wrong – it’s nothing similar to the Men’s layout Tkachev 1/1. (Liukin)

Most accurately it’s Blind to Markelov, the same skill she does earlier in the routine.

This is a good example of a contemporary routine with decent start value, with too little variety.

(via Gymnastics Examiner)

eHow is an online how-to guide with more than 1 million articles and 170,000 videos offering step-by-step instructions on how to do things.

It’s much criticized as a “content mill” or “content farm“. Low quality crap written to get a high Google ranking, pushing Google ads deceptively.

Hows that working out for them?

eHow got the #1 rank for a Google search = “Gymnastics Coach”.

(I reset the Browser so there was nothing in the cache or history.)

Sage advice from eHow:

… Encourage your gymnasts to stay on their toes at all times by using the balance beam. Instruct each gymnast to walk across the beam at the beginning of practice. Once your practice is finished, ask them to do a simple handstand or flip on the beam to demonstrate the necessity for balance.

Why doesn’t Google rank content farms lower?

… Maybe they like all that Google ad revenue.

In Bing eHow was #1, as well. (And Bing results are consistently worse for me on any specialized search term.)

Check in your own browser. My results might have been personalized by location.

The new Duck Duck Go browser filters out all eHow results. This site was #1 there.

Wikipedia has blacklisted all eHow articles.

No, not a Men’s Team. Sadly.

The Board of Directors at Lindenwood University (LU), located in St. Charles, MO (near St. Louis) has just approved the addition of a women’s gymnastics program as part of its transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II competition (2013-2014).

An athletic committee is now being formulated to make a recommendation to the Board in May regarding details of the program’s implementation (facility, coaching, etc.).

flagymiemom on College Gymnastics Board

This is far from a done deal. But it may help for the gymnastics community to rally round the cause.

Here’s the Coeur d’Alene Resort in Idaho, right now. We’re setting up for the big competition this weekend.

Meet Director Dave Adlard is the last man standing end of night.

more photos

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Unofficial.

Some sort of ‘National Championships’ in Russia.

Anna Dementieva 58.05
Anna Pavlova 56.2
Alena Polyan 55.15
Yulia Inishina 55.1
Yulia Belokobylskaya 54.7
Maria Stepanova 54.25

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

… Viktoria Komova had the highest score on bars – 16.700 (be aware of the fact that Russia uses a modified CoP), Dementyeva the highest on floor – 15.100, Yulia Belokobylskaya the highest on beam – 14.550 – and Pavlova the highest on vault – 14.900. …

GymNiceTic

I want to see that 16.70 Bar routine. …

… Of other famous names, Tatiana Nabieva competed vault and bars only. Aliya Mustafina and Anastasia Grishina were not in the line-up.

Going For Gold

… The Gym Dogs, who have lacked depth this season due to a plethora of injuries, had juniors Gina Nuccio and Kat Ding back into multiple events in Friday’s win over No. 21 LSU. …

Nuccio, who is not only Ding’s teammate but also her roommate and best friend, competed in the first three meets of the season, but injured her ankle against West Virginia.

From then until the Florida meet two weeks ago, Nuccio had been limited to the uneven bars along with her injured roommate Ding. …

Head coach Jay Clark said he may be the happiest person watching Ding and Nuccio return together. He said their presence has sparked competition among his thin roster for spots in the lineup, something the Gym Dogs have been missing all season. …

Gym Dogs’ dynamic duo returning to full health

Coach Casie, an American at the club, emailed:

A non-profit community organization, serving the expatriate and local community in Singapore, is seeking a GYMNASTICS HEAD COACH/PROGRAM DIRECTOR. … both recreational and competitive gymnastics.

The competitive teams represent the organization at local Singapore competitions as well as international competitions within Southeast Asia. …

A competitive salary, benefits and relocation package is offered.

Interested candidates are asked to submit a Resume/CV to sacac AT sas.edu.sg

See a video of some of the kids.

Update from Russian Championships:

All Around:
1. Anna Dementyeva
2. Anna Pavlova
3. Alyona Polyan

full results to come

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The fan favourite is still competing. Let’s hope she beats some of the National Team members at Russian Championships, just starting.

See podium training photos from Moscow. Follow that meet via Rewriting Russian Gymnastics.

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