Month: January 2012

You may have been contacted by Google:

We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read. …

These changes will take effect on March 1, 2012.

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Some are freaking out.

That’s dopey. Not much is changing. Here’s a much more measured assessment:

Read Write Web – Tech World Overreacts to Google’s New Privacy Policy – How Does It Affect You?

… You know what you can do? Stop sharing things you don’t want tracked. …

Before and after March 1st best advice is not to do anything online you’ll regret in future. Somebody, somewhere could be tracking it. And it probably won’t be Google. They’re one of the least evil players.

If you want to dig into this deeper, the best authority is Jeff Jarvis. He’s the author of:

• What Would Google Do?
• Public Parts
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related – Student-Athlete Privacy

On Gymnastike, Anne commented on some NCAA schools using a 3rd party service called Varsity Monitor to follow their team online.

They flag “questionable conduct“.

That’s a bit scary. But I suspect Universities are mainly worried about what their high profile basketball and football players say. Gymnasts are probably the least of their worries.

FIG MTC has officially announced new skills and old skills now “named” on this document (PDF)

From that PDF on your computer you can click on links to watch “unlisted” YouTube videos of the skill. Those are private to you.

Actually, it might be possible to embed the video IF you use the “unlisted” URL. Can you watch this?

That’s now the “Penev”. Seems you can competed both the Penev and double layout with 1/1 twist in the same routine.

Leave a comment if you’ve an opinion on the new list. Personally I’m disappointed to see YAMAWAKI 1/2 STRETCHED TO MIXED GRIP INTO BACK UPRISE TO HANDSTAND (MUNOZ) be awarded an E-part. Over-used, layout Yamawaki and variations should be devalued. And still might be, next Code.

(via Full Twist)

More bad press for British Gymnastics at home.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Why are they so unsupportive of Rhythmic Gymnastics?
Funding was cut in 2009. She has a volunteer coach.

The good news — an anonymous donor, after seeing her situation on TV, sent a cheque to support Frankie‘s training.

(via Gymnation on Facebook)

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Men’s Vault is by far the apparatus with the most difficulty in Artistic Gymnastics. No woman has ever competed any of these.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

FIG landing mats are not safe for this level of trick. We need something more like the Double-mini landing surface.

Thank Canadian judge Dave Copeland for the link.

Friday

7:00 ET / 4:00 PT – [1] Arkansas, [24] Maryland @ [8] Florida

I’m looking forward to the red hot Razorbacks taking it to the carefully slow-starting Gators.

Put your money on Arkansas.

WAG NCAA meets this weekend. Or check Gymnastike’s NCAA Weekend Gymnastics Guide.

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics blogger Queen Elizabeth is a Londoner, looking forward to her favourite team impressing in her home town.

She linked to this Olympic Park fly-through.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Much less razzle dazzle than Beijing. But they look to be well on schedule.

I saw that on her post describing the official tour of the Olympic Park.

How many Collegiate gymnasts, aside from Georgia, could there be not wearing grips?

Click PLAY or watch a short clip on YouTube.

Filmed with a high speed Casio Exilim EX-FC 150 with portions in slo-mo at 30-120 fps …

That super slow-mo reveals all the minor execution “deductions” not deducted under NCAA rules.

Update: Greg Marsden sends the link to her full routine, featuring Comanechi 🙂 and Jaeger.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Gymnastike has an interview where Georgia talks about grips.

At the Lilleshalle training centre in the U.K.

See 2 more on the British Gymnastics facebook.

I’d rank Rick Mercer the #1 comedian on Canadian TV.

And he’s a gamer. He asked Karen Cockburn, Rosie MacLennan and Jason Burnett to teach him some Olympic Trampoline.

… I don’t think it went all that well. 🙂

more photos – Rick Mercer Report Facebook

I’ll post video when that bit gets televised.

… “Mark tricked me into thinking we were going to look at a house that his parents were buying, and when we pulled up closer to the area, he wanted to get out and look around,” Patterson said. “When we got out of the car we turned a corner and I saw rose petals and candles all over the ground with a ‘Will You Marry Me?’ sign. He also had champagne and a scrapbook opened that I had made him in our first year of dating, and he had finished the last page.” …

read more on IG – Patterson Gets Proposal, Gives Pre-Olympic Support