Month: March 2013

The young gymnast from GBR has plenty of fans worldwide.

Click PLAY or watch a montage on YouTube.

Here’s another Catherine Lyons montage.

(via irving nochez on YouTube)

Good edit. Proud and loud background music by former Sooner Jake Messina.

This week’s gymnastics workout video takes you inside an early morning training session with the University of Oklahoma men’s gymnastics team. This past weekend, the Sooners upset #2 ranked Michigan on the road. They will once again be in the hunt for the NCAA National title come April.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzYxNzAwMTEy?related=1

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

Note that Gymnastike has cool pre-roll video from International Gymnastics Camp.

Tim‘s yet another of the former Nebraska assistant‘s who’s gone on to be one of the best Head Coaches in the NCAA.

… And he was gutsy enough to put on a wire for a competition. 🙂

The Kentucky gymnastics team is having one of the best seasons in school history. Heading into a Senior Night meet against Bowling Green on Friday at 7 p.m. ET, the Wildcats are looking to build off of a 196.5 team score – the highest ever for the program. The video below gives you an idea of the kind of leadership Tim Garrison has brought to UK.

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Allowed J.O. USA.

Shannon Hortman class of 2016.

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Not sure why they don’t pad the Bar for that Jaeger.

Update – Commenters tell that “FIG MTC gave him only a D”. I assume that’s not official, as yet.

Coaching Methods:

… very similar to the Driggs (3/3 cross support travel fwd. with hop over both sets of Pommels). Given that the Driggs is worth an E, I guess this should be an F.

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That’s Michael Newburger, a walk-on pommel specialist for Ohio.

Recall the comparison Uchumura and Maroney on the same vault?

This .gif posted on this monigymnastics.

One of Chris’ gymnast showed him this funny commentary.

It doesn’t quite work, however. Maroney fell on her second Vault. Kohei did not compete two vaults.

One-on-one, the girl beat the boy.

Kohei’s the better “lander”, of course. One of the best that ever lived. We should study his technique.

Cheer Perfection is an American reality documentary television series that debuted on December 19, 2012 on TLC.

TLC announced on February 6, 2013, that it has ordered eight additional episodes.

… The series follows a group of young cheerleaders at Cheer Time Revolution, located in Sherwood, Arkansas, as they endure the world of competitive cheerleading …

If you are looking for a reason to hate on competitive Cheer, click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. But be warned.

I couldn’t watch this coaching criminality for long.

Kids age 6-13.

Talk about giving Cheer a bad name. 😦

New Life (Sudden Victory) was adopted by FIG in 1989.

Full Twist has a guest post by Anna Rose Johnson.

She ponders whether FIG should go BACK to combining prelims and AA to decide the podium winners in major competitions.

What would the podiums have looked like under the OLD rules?

2012 OLYMPIC GAMES:
1. GABBY DOUGLAS: 62.232
2. VIKTORIA KOMOVA: 61.973
3. ALIYA MUSTAFINA: 59.566
4. ALY RAISMAN: 56.566

COMBINING PRELIMS AND THE AA
1. VIKTORIA KOMOVA: 122.605
2. GABBY DOUGLAS: 122.497
3. ALY RAISMAN: 119.957
4. ALIYA MUSTAFINA: 116.532

2011 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:
1. JORDYN WIEBER: 59.382
2. VIKTORIA KOMOVA: 59.349
3. YAO JINNAN: 58.598

COMBINING PRELIMS WITH THE AA
1. VIKTORIA KOMOVA: 119.506
2. JORDYN WIEBER: 119.414
3. YAO JINNAN: 117.629

2009 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
1. BRIDGET SLOAN: 57.825
2. REBECCA BROSS: 57.775
3. KOKO TSURUMI: 57.175

(COMBINING PRELIMS WITH THE AA)
1. REBECCA BROSS: 115.225
2. BRIDGET SLOAN: 113.900
3. ANA PORGRAS: 113.800

2008 OLYMPIC GAMES:
1. NASTIA LIUKIN: 63.325
2. SHAWN JOHNSON: 62.725
3. YANG YILIN: 62.650

(COMBINING PRELIMS WITH THE AA)
1. NASTIA LIUKIN: 125.700
2. SHAWN JOHNSON: 125.450
3. YANG YILIN: 125.000

Read more and comment on Full Twist.

I’m with the majority who LIKE New Life (Sudden Victory). It makes the final day more exciting. And reduces the chance that the WINNERS will get on to the podium with a fall.

Sere Powell posted the winning Jr routine. Looks like Romania has yet another Beam star coming up.

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(via Puzzle)

sporteverywhere has been evaluating D-score for outstanding routines from past Codes.

Interesting.

… Though it leads to a lot of argument and discussion on the YouTube pages.

For example, the great Vanessa Atler from 2000.

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See more on the sporteverywhere YouTube channel.

WOGymnastike has been linking to some of those.