Getting babies started on this very technical skill can be challenging.
Mary Lee Tracy shows one approach.
Click PLAY or watch some drills on YouTube.
Year: 2011
shift bike gears with your brain
Cool.
At some fuzzy time in the near future you’ll be able to shift gears on a bike merely by thinking UP or DOWN in your bike helmet.
Click PLAY or watch the (painfully) Toyota sponsored video on YouTube.
What uses of this technology could we dream up for coaching?
(via Mashable – Bicycle Of The Future Shifts Gears Via Brain Waves)
“Lukenchuk” release on rope
Jayd Lukenchuk from (my old gym) Taiso, Saskatoon invents a new release move.
Click PLAY or watch it YouTube.
Try that, Charlie Tamayo. 🙂
related – video of Jayd training
(via All Things Gym)
Update: Matthew Sparks, head coach of the Cirque show in Orlando, notes that many circus artists have done this skill on Rope (Spanish Web/Cordes Lisse)… including another Canadian Gymnast, Jonathan Morin, who did it in training.
Red Bull – The Art of FLIGHT
I’ve seen a few scarifying trailers for the upcoming Red Bull snowboard movie The Art of FLIGHT. Here’s one.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I honestly don’t think I could watch that film.
USAG 2011 Acrobatic Gymnastics
I’ve attended the USAG Acrobatic Gymnastics Nationals a couple of times over the years. A small event with surprisingly few competitors.
That’s all changed. The sport is now booming
Following the conclusion of the 2011 Acro Nationals elite competition, all of the elite competitors got together to perform this spectacular group routine.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Thank Louis for the link.
Camp Woodward SOLD
The 425-acre camp in Haines Township, and its offshoots in Wisconsin and California, along with its brand name and licensing rights, was sold last week to Powdr Corp., an investment group that owns nine ski resorts across the country.
Powdr CFO Jennifer Botter said her company is looking to build more camps both inside the U.S. and in as many as 30 foreign countries. …
Powdr’s interest in the camp was sparked by its purchase of Colorado’s Copper Mountain ski resort, where a Camp Woodward-licensed facility, dedicated to winter sports instruction for youth, opened in 2009.
“We became quite enamored of the people — Gary Ream in particular — and really became aware of what the camp was doing for the action sports industry,” Botter said.
Ream is the co-owner of Camp Woodward and the man behind its transition from a gymnastics-centered camp into an action sports mecca. …
Botter said Powdr agreed last month to purchase a majority stake in Camp Woodward from Ream and a few other co-owners, including Ream’s family members. Care was taken during the acquisition not to disrupt Camp Woodward’s summer season, she said.
Botter did not disclose the purchase price, but said Ream will remain president and his executive team will be retained. …
What does this mean for Gymnastics and Cheer?
Leave a comment if you’ve heard anything.
(via College Gymnastics Board)
China vows FISU domination
Links from FIG Communications Manager Meike Behrensen via email:
A total of 505 Chinese athletes from 110 universities will arrive in Shenzhen on August 5 to compete in the 26th World University Games …
China vowed to maintain domination in the Universiade …
More than 12,000 athletes and officials from 180 countries and regions will compete in the Universiade from August 12-23 …
For the first time in Universiade history, FISU, the governing body of international university sport, will have live streaming on its TV website www.fisu.tv.
related – Rome, Madrid and Tokyo have announced they will bid for the 2020 Olympics. The deadline is September for any other cities to join the race.
Airrosti Rehab Centers in Texas
The Airrosti Rehab Centers are a chain with the goal of relieving pain as quickly as possible in order to get athletes back training.
U.S. Men’s Olympic Gymnastics Coach Kevin Mazeika …
To give their gymnasts a competitive edge, reduce lost training time due to injuries, and provide the most state-of-the-art sports recovery care for their athletes, the Houston Gymnastics Academy, headed by the U.S. Men’s Olympic Gymnastics coach Kevin Mazeika, has entered into an agreement with the Airrosti Center.
“The Airrosti treatment provides exactly what we need in our sport – rapid recovery. Whether an athlete has an acute or chronic injury, Airrosti’s goal is synonymous with ours, to get the athlete back to training or competition as soon as possible. Thank you Airrosti!”
Kevin Mazeika – 2004 U.S. Men’s Olympic Gymnastics Team Head Coach
Here’s a testimonial by gymnast turned Olympic gold medalist diver Laura Wilkinson.
Olympic Gold Medalist Laura Wilkinson from Airrosti.
This sounds great to me. I wish we had one in my city.
Commonwealth Youth Games
Sept. 7-13th, 2011
Avril Enslow linked to the New Zealand WAG rep.
>A surprise scholarship will help a young Christchurch gymnast travel to the Commonwealth Youth Games next month.
Charlotte Sullivan, 13, will be awarded the Anthony Wilding Scholarship for Prowess in Sport …
The $1200 scholarship comes from New Zealand documentary maker Anna Wilding’s charity, the Wilding Foundation. …
“I just think it’s amazing, her determination during earthquake times,” Sullivan said.
“Her goal was to get to the Commonwealth Youth Games and she made it.”
The Press – Charlotte’s on top of the world
Anna Wilding came across and discovered Charlotte quite simply and
serendipously.Anna was in (an) Art Supply store … when she came across a colour photocopied flyer posted to the bench. The flyer featured Charlotte who was selling chocolates for 2.00 to raise money for her forthcoming trip.
Ms Wilding was touched by the flyer, the tenacity, determination, and hard work shown by Charlotte and of course impressed with her obvious talent.
The 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games will be the fourth Commonwealth Youth Games which started in 2000. They will be held in the Isle of Man. …
Sports at the CYG
Tricking – pushing the limits
Tricking (short for martial arts tricking) is the informal name of a type of physical activity derived from the martial arts that includes techniques found in gymnastics, B-boying, and similar …
It’s an acrobatic discipline that’s being invented right now. By guys like this.
Flippin The Script! on Facebook:
… Mogwai was throwing outlandishly insane tricks the whole weekend, so I made him a special slow mo edit.
Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.
He doesn’t land many of those inventions. But guts or what?
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