Year: 2011

Amanda is having a baby. She needs a good person to take over while she’s on maternity.

The term of employment is from July 1st, 2011 until August 31st, 2012. (Oh Canada, land of wonderful maternity benefits.)

Duties Include:

Coach developmental, provincial, national stream female, and high performance athletes

Assist in administration of the competitive program

Qualifications:

Coach must have proven experience coaching athletes of developmental, provincial and national level over a number of years

Minimum Level 3 NCCP
1st Aid/CPR
Respect in Sport

Submit your resume with salary expectations in confidence to:

Chris Baraniuk
Marian Gymnastics
343 Edson Street
Saskatoon, SK
Canada S7J 4C8

Email: chrismariangym AT gmail.com

Cats and rabbits can “cat twist”. Dogs and humans, not so much.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via io9)

by site editor Rick McCharles

RecGymnastics.com is a new site I’ve just launched. There are already 16 posts published.

“… where coaches, teachers, educators and program directors can discuss ideas, games, lesson plans, etc. … Everything non-competitive.”

Anyone can read and comment. But what we really need to make it take off is 20-30 experts who have “permission to log-in” to start new posts.

Here’s how it works for those who have “permission”.

Email Rick_McCharles@hotmail.com if you think you might want to be a micro blogger on RecGymnastics.

Of course you can subscribe to RecGymnastics.com by email or RSS.

A great rivalry.

Stanford is rocking, jumping from a preseason #6 ranking to #2 (behind Florida). And Kristina Vaculik has yet to make the big splash that everyone expects.

Defending National Champions UCLA, by comparison, have had nothing but problems so far this season, losing to #4 Utah and # 20 Southern Utah.

Miss Val chewed out the Bruins (VIDEO).

In that interview she tells that the Bruins will take a “skeleton crew” to Stanford.

Details on that competition – Go Stanford.

Click PLAY or watch a Stanford promo on YouTube.

Stephen Garcia will be covering this meet for Gymnastike.

Valentin Uzunov has just upgraded his The Gym Press site. I recommend coaches join that social network.

new URL – http://thegympresslibrary.phile.com

Valentin, now coaching in the States, is a great student of the game, collecting as many clinic videos as he can get.

That site links to books and videos. The best section, I feel, hosts the sport science articles.

It’s all FREE unless you decide to buy one of the resources.

The forum is yet to get going. The faster he has enough coaches join to gain momentum, the better.

The new site is a work in progress. Leave suggestions on their Facebook page.

… the “Tamayo” necklace from Mimi and Lu ! Symbolizing the 5 Olympic Rings, the first necklace will be part of the Silent Auction at this weekends fundraiser! After that it will be available for purchase and 40% of each purchase will go to Flip for Charlie.

via Facebook

College men get off to a slower start than the women. Most teams have only had 1 meet, so far.

17 January 2011 – by Total Season Average

more rankings on GymInfo

Blair Lowe pointed me to this SAVE Cal Gymnastics video.

University of California, Berkeley men’s gymnastics promotional pre-season video. Edited by Nic Blair. Our program has been cut and this is our last year as an NCAA division 1 program. Go to www.calgymnasticsforever.com to pledge and save our program and http://www.calbears.com for season schedule and roster. Contact nicolasblair@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (some profanity)

As of Jan. 19th the fund had reached $700K towards a goal of $1 million by Feb 1, 2011

NCAA Collegiate Schedule | Friday NCAA WAG | Saturday NCAA WAG | Sunday NCAA WAG | American Gymnast videos FREE

… ANNOUNCED a new Recreational Gymnastics blog

Blythe called 2010 the Year of the Comeback in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.

But 2011 could be much bigger in the USA:

• Shawn Johnson
• Nastia Liukin
• Chelsea Memmel
• Anna Li
• Casey Jo Magee

Ivana Hong is back too, though she never has retired.

It’s a long shot for all of these gymnasts. But the prize – Olympics – is big. And they sense that they have a chance to make the team if they can get in good shape and be uninjured.

Casey Jo’s blog is refreshingly honest:

… Beam has needed one adjustment after the other. Once I got the triple turn consistently I added it to the routine in addition to my double connected that I started connecting with a single full turn. I also was having some consistency issues with the side somi out of the aerial, so I went back to doing that by itself, and put the aerial step through with the switch leap tourjete like I competed at the qualifiers this past summer. They have since improved quite a bit. We rearranged and added in some different dance…and then I was over time! So, we had to take out a bit of dance, and now it looks like every other elite routine –> skill, pose, skill, pose, skill, pose…not what I was hoping for. …

4 Weeks Left

(via Split Leap)

I’ve never seen this before. At University of Michigan.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.