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Sabrina Gill and Silvia Colussi-Pelaez tied for Gold in the women’s all around.
Facebook album: 2011 Canada Games by Grace Chiu
Amanda Turner has a good summary of the WAG Team Finals on IG.
Gymnastics Canada summarizes the WAG All Around.
Today is Apparatus Finals for both MAG and WAG, all 10 the same day.
CWG videos on the Gymn.ca YouTube channel. And the Gymnastics Canada channel.
by site editor Rick McCharles
Right now College Men’s Gymnastics in the USA is on a death spiral. In 1982 there were 79 teams. What can be done to save the current 17 teams? … This is one in a series of posts.
#1 Increase the fan base at each of the MAG schools:
Illinois-Champaign (Big Ten), Illinois-Chicago (Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League), Iowa (Big Ten), Michigan (Big Ten), Minnesota-Twin Cities (Big Ten), Ohio State (Big Ten), Penn State (Big Ten), Springfield (EIGL), Temple (EIGL), U.S. Military Academy (EIGL), U.S. Naval Academy (EIGL), and William and Mary (EIGL).
California-Berkeley (Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), Nebraska-Lincoln (MPSF), Oklahoma (MPSF), Stanford (MPSF), and U.S. Air Force Academy (MPSF).
Several of the women’s College teams have somehow managed to accomplish it.
I asked then Cal coach Barry Weiner in 2008 how to save NCAA Men’s Gymnastics. He told me each school had to take care of their own team. Not to count on any outside help.
His team was cut last week.
What men’s teams have actually tried seriously to grow their fan base?
Who has the highest attendance in 2011?
Leave a comment if you have an opinion on how to grow the audience for Men’s Gymnastics.
related – Gymnastics Examiner – How to better market men’s NCAA gymnastics?
Posted by International Gymnastics Camp.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
Leave a comment if you know what that’s about.
IGC has a gorgeous video called Poetry posted on Facebook.
Gymnova has some free software where you can design a gymnastics gym.
I tried the online version on a Mac. … Fail.
I didn’t try the software download.
Here’s the link if you want to give it a go. Gymnova – Create your gymnasium in 3D
Leave a comment if you’ve tried it.
One thing I like about competitive cheerleading is the number of choices coaches and kids have in what competitions to attend.
There are a number of companies and organisations operating independently, many in the USA. If you don’t like one, switch to another.
Choices are a good thing. Though some are safer than others.
But it’s the The International Cheer Union, listing nearly 100 member nations, that applied for recognition by the International Olympic Committee.
Now they are in negotiations with FIG and SportAccord, the former General Association of International Sports Federations. Another step in the long road towards being recognized as an Olympic sport.
What do you think? Could Cheer get into the Olympics, one day?
The ICU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS will be held again in Orlando, April 27-30th, 2011.
The International Cheer Union currently encompasses 91 National Federations from countries across the globe. Every year the ICU host the ICU World Championship. Unlike the USASF Worlds, this competition uses Level 6/ Collegiate style rules. Countries assemble and send only one team to represent them.
… A dozen speakers from the USA, Great Britain, Belgium, Greece and Australia will be welcomed to the FIG Head Office in Lausanne, February 18 – 19, for a Scientific Colloquium, the conclusions of which are anticipated by the entire international gymnastics community. …
Organized by Keith Russell, of the FIG Scientific Commission, Dr Adam Baxter-Jones will chair.
Dr. Dennis Caine, Dr. Gaston Beunen, Dr. Robert Malina, Dr. Rob Daly, Dr. Alan Rogol, Dr. Richard Lewis, Dr. Neoklis Georgopoulos, Dr Neil Armstrong, Dr. Michel Leglise, etc. …
Many of the most important researchers in the field.
Nobody can claim FIG is ducking the issue of what intensive training does to kids. Respect.
CONGRATS, guys.
MAG AA medalists: Kal Nemier, BC – Silver; Simon Porter, ON – Gold; Mathieu Csukassy, QC -bronze
Facebook: 2011 Canada Games by Grace Chiu GraceClick
Simon:
… “Competition was really good. I hit 6 for 6 routines today,” said Porter.
“I held all my strengths on rings and I nailed almost all my landings on floor.”
When asked how the flu virus, that assailed both he and his Ontario team-mates, affected his performances, Porter said: “It took away a little bit of bounce in my skills but my head space was pretty good. …
International Gymnast:
In Wednesday’s men’s finals, Simon Porter (Toronto Gymnastics International) took the gold medal with a 2.25-point margin of victory. Porter was the 2008 Canadian novice champion.
Kal Nemier won the silver for British Columbia. Nemier is coached by Romanian-born Vali Stan at Flicka Gymnastics.
Mathieu Csukassy, a member of Quebec’s gold medal-winning team from Monday, won the bronze. …
All three men’s medalists are 17.
“Gymnastics to me is the best thing out there,” all-around champion Porter said in his Canada Games official biography. “It has taught me the value of respect and in working hard for your goals and to never get down on your self if you fall short of them. Also chicks dig back flips.” …
read more on IG
Why didn’t anyone name me in the latest Discussion – Challenging Kohei
More than any gymnast of the past decade, Japan’s Kohei Uchimura has mastered both the technical and artistic sides of the sport. …
… could there be someone out there who might upstage him this year?
Continue reading on Examiner.com: The Discussion: Challenging Kohei
Click PLAY or watch his Kovacs + salto in training on YouTube.
If someone gets close, Kohei’s got upgrades on many apparatus to add, if he needs. And he seems to be able to do anything in competition, when he tries.
More likely Kohei will be able to emulate 2008 Olympic champion Yang Wei, … only do as much as he needs to win.
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