Strong standing Arabian.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
Year: 2011
free music for Gymnastics routines
Active Music Library is the UK´s largest production music website with over 50,000 pieces of music, free from the MCPS rate card. That means we can offer you the biggest and best choice of music with savings of up to 95% on what MCPS would charge you ! Not only that but we’ll deliver it right to your desk top !!
But right now you can get instrumental music free after joining GymnastFix, also free.
It’s a new online gymnastics community for gymnasts and gymnastic clubs.
Step 1 – join Gymnastfix.
Step 2 – Leave a comment in the forum that you’d like free access to Active Music Library.
Site editor Stacie Ridley needs to personally approve that you are a GymnastFix member, … then you should be able to see a download button at the side of the tracks you are listening to. You must be logged in, of course.
That might take a day or two. Worked for me.
Here’s a Techno clip I downloaded, as a test.
Once you are a member of GymnastFix, check out the photos, videos, etc.
most watched Bar routines
What are the most watched gymnastics routines on the web?
TCG writer Justin Caouette did some research to find out just what exactly are the most popular individual gymnastics performances viewed on Youtube. Starting with uneven bars, he will take us through the top ten on each event and explore the potential reasons for their popularity.
Click PLAY or watch #1 on YouTube.
I love the cutaway edits to Nellie Kim, her principle rival.
See the next 9 on Couch Gymnast – The Most Watched Routines: Part One
Title IX killed Cal MAG
Update: Check the comments for reaction to this post. … Seems it’s far too simplistic to say “Title IX killed Cal MAG”
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Though the administration won’t admit it, the main reason Men’s Gymnastics is gone and Women’s Gymnastics survived is the the 1972 gender equity law known as Title IX.
International Gymnast – Dwight Normile:
… Cal’s 2010 numbers were way out of whack. Of its 24,796 full-time undergraduates, 53 percent were women. But it had 577 male athletes and 388 female.
Donors saved the rugby program, but only under the condition that some of the money would be used to help fund women’s gymnastics and women’s lacrosse. …
Whether you love or loathe Title IX, it’s the reason the guys are gone, whether or not they raised their own funds.
gymnastics – History of Vault
… For many decades there was no separate vaulting horse, the pommel horse was simply turned around and gymnasts vaulted over it lengthwise. The pommels were unscrewed and wooden poles inserted into the holes to avoid any injuries to the fingers when gymnasts pushed off the horse.
Berlin native Carl Schuhmann, the most successful German Olympian in Athens 1896, vaulted over that kind of apparatus…
photo – Berlin’s Olympic Champion Carl Schuhmann
Each Wednesday we are linking to a different apparatus posted on GymMEDIA – Apparatus HISTORY. (English and German)
China – brazen, careless, or just plain clueless?
Katrina sent me a link to a funny take on the most recent Chinese age falsification scandal.
John Powers:
… The Chinese, who are notorious for falsifying ages of their women’s gymnasts, evidently have been doing the same with their figure skaters for years. According to birthdates on their federation’s website discovered by the Associated Press, nine athletes, most notably Olympic pairs medalists Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, either were too young or too old to be competing in senior and junior world championships. …
What’s baffling is why the Chinese, whose Internet censoring borders on the paranoid, would post any athletes’ ages there at all. Either they’re brazen, careless, or just plain clueless. In any case, they’ve got some explaining to do …
Boston Globe – China’s figures off again
That is baffling. It’s as if an affluent totalitarian regime is inefficient. Their bureaucratic toadies can’t keep track of what birth year is required in each sport.
Actually, Dan and Hao have already been cleared, it seems.
International skating officials found no discrepancies in the birthdates of three Chinese figure skaters, including 2006 Olympic pairs silver medalists Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, after questions were raised about their eligibility. …
Chinese sports officials acknowledged Friday there were inconsistencies in some of the recorded ages of their athletes and said they were taking measures to fix the problem.
Winter Sports Administration director Zhao Yinggang said the body was verifying birthdates listed for more than half a dozen figure skaters after questions were raised about different dates given to different governing bodies….
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
littlemissgymnast has a poll right now on the FIG age requirement for the Olympics.
Admin job in Australia
The Events Director will lead the Gymnastics Victoria Events Department to deliver an annual event series in excess of thirty events across eight different Gymsports and divisions (including the multi sport premier Senior Victorian Championships), ensuring optimal member satisfaction and continual improvement.
… $60,000 to $70,000 per annum
Dependent upon experience and qualifications
gymnastics – Spring Beam by Gym-Trix
I haven’t heard much about this product since first posting about it in 2006.
Gym-Trix Inc. has recently received patent approval for our NEW spring loaded balance beam. The combination of internal steel springs and a completely movable top create a “Spring Floor” action for the entire working surface of the beam.
Leave a comment if you’ve tried one. There are several different options available.
Recall that TumblTrak once offered an Air Beam, an inflated cover. It’s been discontinued, I think.
do you want a WIDER beam?
The Latest Gymnastics Examiner Discussion: Modifying the balance beam:
At the World Championships in Rottedam, legendary Russian coach Leonid Arkayev did an interview with GymMedia where he examined a balance beam prototype whose ends were slightly wider than four inches …
Click PLAY or see the demo Beam on YouTube.
Gymnastics bloggers from around the world were asked how they felt about the idea …
On that Discussion, I was harshest. A flat NO to the idea of using that Beam in competition. It’s not the direction I’d like to see the apparatus go.
But I should clarify that I’d love to have one of those beam for training.
I’m a fan of low ‘freeway’ beams in training, especially for our youngest kids.
freeway beam – flickr
Gymtastics Gymnastics, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
I’m less fond of high wide beams, though they could be useful for older kids in certain circumstances.
Janssen-Fritsen – Training Balance Beam ‘Wide top’
Soft top ‘club ‘ balance beam 20 cm wide. This beam has been developed especially for training halls where very young girls start their beam training. This beam has the same features as the regular soft top beam, with height adjustable legs and a very soft top but it is 20 cm wide.
The downside, of course, are those kids who develop a psychological dependency on the width. They can’t stay on the freeway too long.
What do you think?
Are you one of the coaches who doesn’t need wider Beams? … Or would you use one of these, if you had it?
new Tokyo World Championships vid
The second promo video for World Championships in October has been released.
It’s well done.
You can see it on the home page. Or see both on the movie page.
(via GymNiceTic)
Gymnastics Coaching.com 