Year: 2011

Must you stack mats in your gym to create a “table”.

The mat can be used alone for dozens of drills, or it can be the base mat for a higher stack add 12-inchers, 8-inchers, 4-inchers in any combination to make a tower of mats as high as needed. It is much lighter to move, and thus much more portable than a foam mat or a stack of foam mats!

… use a mat on top of the Air Pit for vaulting drills!

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The Air Pit has a 4-inch (10cm) wide line down the top, and numbers for measuring distance. …

Tumbl Trak – Air Pit. (Two year warranty.)

I believe the future of matting is a combination of air and foam. The most obvious use is for flat back Vault drills, especially if you have to set up and take down that station often.

Men’s AA
87.00 Shogo Nonomura (JPN)
85.95 Ryohei Kato (JPN)
83.55 Bo Wang (CHN)

Women’s AA
Lexiee Priessman (USA)
Amelia Hundley (USA)
Jihye Sung (KOR)

Top 2 / nation.

Apparatus Finals tomorrow.

Our Rhythmics Olympic Champion is still on top.

Results Individual All-around Final

Gold: KANAEVA Evgenia (RUS) – Total: 116.650
Silver: KONDAKOVA Daria (RUS) – Total: 116.600
Bronze: – Total: GARAYEVA Aliya (AZE) – Total: 112.450

Kanaeva outscored her compatriot Kondakova, who wins World for the third time this year, by a .05 margin. The All-around marks Kanaeva’s sixth Gold medal at this tournament, after having won all Apparatus Finals and helped Russia to Gold in the Team event. With her success a repeat performance of the record she set two years ago in Japan where she called a full house at a world championship event for the first time in her career.

read more from FIG – Kanaeva repeats six Gold medal record

The video below shows two young boys, both under the age of ten, taking part in a grappling match, inside a cage, in front of a crowd of severely inebriated adults.

Yes you read that right. …

Cheap Seats

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I can barely watch adults in this brutal sport.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Karate, Judo and other styles. …

Michael Vick goes to prison for dog fights. But this is legal?

Thanks George.

I finally found the venue for the Junior Japan International, September 24-25th in Yokohama. It’s the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium, built to host the 1964 Volleyball Olympic tournament.

Thanks for the directions, Cincinnati Gym.

… Lexie Priessman and Amelia Hundley of Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy will compete on the women’s side, while Adrian de los Angeles (SCATS) and Sean Melton (Orlando Metro) will compete for the junior men’s title. …

SCATS’s Grigor Chalikyan and Cincinnati’s Mary Lee Tracy will be the U.S. coaches …

Examiner.com – U.S. junior phenoms to head off to Junior Japan

Venezuela and Brazil arrived in Tokyo September 20th, the first nations to do so. They’ll do their final camp here, acclimatizing to the new time zone.

UPDATE: This seems not yet to be the “official” announcement.

Andrei Rodionenko (via RIA Novosti) via Rewriting Russian Gymnastics:

Men: Garibov, Khorokhodin, Ignatyev, Belyavski, Ablyazin, Cherkasov, Golutsotskov, Pluzhnikov

Women: Afanasyeva, Komova, Dementieva, Belokobylskaya, Nabieva, Polyan, Paseka

… Rodionenko is apparently worried about the conditions out in Tokyo in the wake of Typhoon Roke which killed 12 people and is causing landslides. There is some discussion of the consequences of cancelling this event. …

I just arrived Tokyo. Sunny skies. No sign of typhoon. It’s already passed, I assume.

Eddie Umphrey:

The kids at gym didn’t think a giant was possible on a playground bar. Little did they know that’s where I learned my giants, flyaway and kip. True story. Ya ya terrible form, but the bar was still wet from the rain.

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Wordsmith uses the Casio EX-FC150 High Speed EXILIM to generate sequences like this using a High Speed Burst mode.

Slow Motion video at 240 and 420 frames / second work well, too.

MunchTheSilivasFan

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Gymnastics Prayer:

Now I warm up for the meet
I pray my competition I can beat
And if I fall amidst the cheers
I pray I can hold my tears
And one more thing, success or not
I pray the creator of the beam be shot.

Or should the creator of Beam judging regulations be shot?

Beam is fun.

That poem I saw on Gymnastics Zone