Month: March 2013

CSaccullo Chris Saccullo.

Two great swingers.

One uses the traditional tap under the low bar. The other taps over the low bar — and prays she’s not going to grow any taller.

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It’s tricky, slow and risky to train the tap over the low bar — as WOGA does.

For MOST gymnasts, the traditional tap is best.

Posted by Gymnast Crossing. Thanks.

Another in the WOGymnastike series reflecting back on when today’s Olympians were young.

2006 US Nationals UB Day 1

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See the other 3 apparatus on WOGymnastike.

Very cool. Toe Shaposh to Bhardwaj. Toe Shaposh 1/2 to stoop shoot to low.

Sadly, she fell at English Championships. 😦

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(via Arabian Punch Front)

You don’t want your athletes seeing these crazies.

Random. And awesome. This one went viral.

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Location: Hermann-Neuberger-Sportschule, Saarbrücken (Saarland)

VAULT
1. Giulia Steingruber
2. Maegan Chant
3. Oksana Chusovitina

BARS
1. Giulia Steingruber
2. Kaitlyn Hofland
3. Jana Šikulová

BEAM … rave reviews
1. Carlotta Ferlito
2. Vanessa Ferrari
3. Vasiliki Millousi
4. Ksenia Afanasyeva

FLOOR
1. Ksenia Afanasyeva
2. Diana Bulimar
3. Carlotta Ferlito

Click through to IG for full Finals results, including MAG – Steingruber Grabs Two Golds at French International

If you are a fan, check Afan’s Floor.

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Class I Men (FIG A)
1 Steven Gluckstein
2 Jeffrey Gluckstein
3 Fernando Götschin

Class I Women (FIG A)
1 Andrea Lenders
2 Savannah Vinsant
3 Sylvie Wirth

all results

(via Trampoline Pundit)

GymPOWER is posting videos on YouTube.

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Nice editing.

UPDATE: Many were outraged at the high scores at this competition.

I love an upset. 🙂

A pre-meet light show wasn’t the only thing that lit up the Huntsman Center in Utah’s final home gymnastics meet of the season. The No. 7-ranked Utes electrified a crowd of 14,930 with the third-highest score in school history and upset No. 2 Florida 198.125-197.875.

The Utes scored season highs on three of four events, making their move on the favored Gators in the second rotation on the uneven bars, where Georgia Dabritz brought down the house with a perfect 10.0. …

Asked if the big bar score surprised him since bars has been an inconsistent event for the Utes this season, coach Greg Marsden responded,

“That’s the bar team I see in the gym all the time. I feel like this is the first time this year they really relaxed and performed how they do in practice.”

Utah Utes

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Both Florida and Oklahoma lost this weekend.

I’ll bet the coaches are (secretly) happy. It will sharpen focus going into the BIG meets coming up.

Most who love Cirque du Soleil acrobatics, … feel clowns are the weakest links in Cirque productions.

Those are talented physical comedians. Scripts could be stronger. 😦

Cirque decided to bring in clowns in to Montreal for 2wks to see what would evolve.

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More about Cirque clowns on YouTube.

Chris’ tribute to Italy at the Olympics.

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Team Italia – Cherry Waves from CSaccullo.