Year: 2011

Click PLAY or watch one of Mary Lee Tracy’s videos on YouTube.

The new Double Front blog recommends two apps:

Georgia Gymdogs iPhone App—The first (and currently only) iPhone app for an NCAA gymnastics team.

Video now available … Universal Sports iPhone app—Universal Sports, the sole broadcasting partner of USA Gymnastics, added video to their iPhone app in late 2010. I’m happy to see this development and anxiously await a native iPad app and mobile live streaming. …

In the right hand navigation you’ll find a link to the TumbleTally the first gymnastics meet score tracking app for Android™ devices!

American Gymnast recommends the “My Fitness Pal” iPhone app, a nutrition tracker.

If you’ve a comment on these or any other gymnastics related apps, please leave a comment.

I’ve not personally used any. But many, many got new phones, iPads, iPod Touch devices and other toys this Christmas. There’s certainly a market for more.

Greg on College Gym Fans has calculated who has the toughest 2011 schedule in Women’s Collegiate gymnastics:

That chart is a ranking of the top 10 teams. He has also calculated the top 25 teams.

Click through to see them both – Strength of Schedule Analysis: 2011

Competition starts SOON.

Doble en plancha has a succinct summary of what happened over the past year in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics with a few MAG highlights thrown in, as well.

Read that in the original Spanish or Google translated English.

(via Full Twist)

What do you think?

I quite like it. A unique new look. The theme is:

Passion and Transformation

There’s an impressive video that goes along with the launch posted on the official website.

IOC President Jacques Rogge:

… “I see the preparation for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is going extremely well,” he said.

Rio Gov. Sergio Cabral said the lack of airport infrastructure remains the greatest obstacle in preparations for the games, but downplayed concerns it will remain a problem when the event begins in six years.

2016 Olympics logo unveiled New Year’s Eve in Rio

From demotivation.us

via Tracita Morson on Facebook

Triple Olympian gymnast Dominique Dawes is not going to know what to think about this funny edit by spannytampson.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Full Twist has a link to Komova2012’s YouTube channel, the Womens Team Final split into 11 parts.

Click PLAY or watch Part 1 on YouTube.

Links to the rest on Full Twist.

Going for Gold posted a nice pictorial. The stars are Team Russia:

Click through to see the rest – Gymnastics 2010 – A year in Photos

If you get sick and tired of the rah rah hype of women’s College gymnastics, you’ll love the Stanford preseason recap video.

It’s so understated, I’d call it humble.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The Stanford girls finished 4th as a team last season with a super smart team strategy. They were the best coached team, I felt.

Why?

It’s so difficult to get into Stanford that the talent pool of potential athletes is small. By contrast, girls with bad grades still get into UCLA and Florida. (Though not Kytra Hunter, so far. She’s trying to improve her test scores to join the Gators.)

As a result, many years Stanford struggles with enough depth to compete against the top teams. They’ve learned to train very safely. And to construct routines to get the highest score possible with the minimum risk.

Alabama and especially Florida gamble with bigger difficulty, and it sometimes costs them.

To me Stanford looks deeper and better than I can ever recall. Kristina Vaculik could win the NCAA all-around, as far as I’m concerned.

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They’ve lost coach Mike Lorenzen (now at Arizona State) but brought back Tabitha Yim.

… I’m feeling the love for the Cardinal in 2011. Early prediction: Florida, UCLA, Stanford 1-2-3 at Championships.

(Stanford was ranked 6th in the preseason coach’s poll.)