Year: 2011

The 2011 Canada Cup Trampoline & Tumbling competition is ended. Gymnastics Alberta has made videos available online. Free.

Canada Cup gold medal favourites Karen Cockburn, Jason Burnett and Corissa Boychuk didn’t disappoint on the final night of competition, sweeping gold on Saturday in the men’s and women’s individual trampoline events and women’s double-mini. …

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Gymnastics Alberta – Olympic winners Karen Cockburn and Jason Burnett highlight trampoline and tumbling meet in Airdrie

Shout out to my man Jon Shwaiger (VIDEO) who finished 2nd in Senior Men’s Tumbling. (He successfully transitioned from Men’s Artistic at age-16.)

Grace Chiu posted a few photos on Facebook, the rest on GraceClick.ca.

related – Box Score – USA Wins Three Medals At 2011 Canada Cup

Former UCLA gymnast and team manager Alyssa Kitasoe talks about her eating disorder that started the year after she left the Team.

… Since she was no longer working out 25 hours a week, the pounds crept onto what had been her fit 5-foot-1, 115-pound frame — a frightening prospect for a girl who for nearly 10 years had endured weekly weigh-ins.

“You still have the mind-set that you need to be tiny,” said Kitasoe, now 24 and four years removed from the most dramatic of her struggles. “You compare yourself to the way you were.”

It was the start of a destructive cycle. …

At least one-third of female college athletes have some type of eating disorder, according to studies published in 1999 and 2002 by experts Craig Johnson and Katherine Beals, who together examined nearly 1,000 female student-athletes participating in various sports. …

LA Times – Leaving the sport, gaining an eating disorder

… Film made by Devin Graham …

Shout out to the Ensoul team, a team of extremely talented bikers , break dancers, poppers, and free runners. We had several of their team members doing the stunts for the video. ..

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Only one person was injured in the filming of this video. (6 stitches)

via The Gymnast Life

Danell in training, doing his 17.2 start bar routine. The best he’s ever looked.

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(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

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The author of that poem is unknown. The video editor is BRAIESMOM, inspired by her daughter Braie Speed.

(via sophgymnast on Chalk Bucket)

related – Do You Remember When? (VIDEO)

Bad news.

” Due to major illnesses in families of two (2) key members of the Organizing Committee, the 2012 Triple Flip Wild Rose has been cancelled. This decision was not made lightly. Both families are now focusing on their loved ones as they will be going through a difficult time in the next few months. “

wildrosegymnastics.com

The European Youth Olympic Festival has finished. Medals.

I’ll be posting video highlights over the next few days.

… unsurprisingly, Larisa Iordache of Romania has taken the AA crown at the 2011 EYOF meet in Trabzon. The little Romanian s capable of massive difficulty across all the apparatus and is shaping up to be Romania’s future star performer. Hot on her heels was were two star Italian juniors, Erika Fasana and then Elisa Meneghini. ..

Couch Gymnast – Iordache Takes EYOF AA Title

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Not bad.

Could her timing be perfect to be the surprise winner in London?

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Russia won Men’s Team over GBR and Switzerland.

Courtney Tulloch from GBR won the Men’s AA.

Sneak preview of the August cover.

Inside Gymnastics – Wieber, Sacramone, Horton appear on NBC’s Today Show

Add the double layout second pass, and this is a top routine at any level. Smart choreography … aside from the inexplicable sequence to finishing pose. What’s with that?

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