Month: April 2014

The critical drill for strong back tumbling. As Iarov told us in 1994, the rest is “trampoline”.
 

Painfully funny. 🙂

Kenny Budge-twostep cheats his way to victory in the florentine division at the 2014 provincials and learns a hard lesson.

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What the H is that all about you ask?

Michele Soucy:

We had a “Pumped for Provincials” challenge where we invited kids to send in a video on why they were excited for Provincials.

… the men’s coaches unfortunately beat the women’s this year. 🙂

Some Jr gymnasts grow taller, faster than others.

Check this pic posted by Alec Yoder on Instagram.

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Pacific Rim awards podium. That’s Kakeru Tanigawa from Japan with the U.S. guys.

(via Nico on GymFever)

Sang Lan, a former world-class Chinese gymnast who was tragically paralyzed while preparing for the 1998 Goodwill Games, gave birth to a baby boy in Beijing on April 14. …

Women of China

(via wogymnast)

via Learn Gymnastics Code

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Jonna, the 2012 Olympian from Sweden, is looking great.

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Highest score of the day: 14.550 (6.0)

Jonna defended her All-Around title after a great competition.

AA total: 55.300

more videos from Swedish Championships

Jet lag is nobody’s idea of fun. A bunch of mathematicians say they can make the adjustment less painful with a smartphone app that calculates the swiftest way to adjust.

Users plug in the time zone they’re traveling to, and the app will do the calculations before spitting out a schedule specifying when the user should stay in bright light, low light or be in the dark, says Olivia Walch, a graduate student at the University of Michigan who designed the app. …

This Jet Lag App Does The Math So You’ll Feel Better Faster

I’ve downloaded it to my iPhone. The Android version is still under development.

Great idea. Should work. But those eggheads made it far too feature rich. It’s not intuitive to use.

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Get it free via iTunes.

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I like Sam’s better.

Congratulations.

University of Bridgeport 195.225
Texas Woman’s University 194.725
Seattle Pacific University 194.550

The schools competing in the team competition are: University of Bridgeport, Cornell University, Lindenwood University, U.S. Air Force Academy, Temple University, Seattle Pacific University, Brown University and Texas Woman’s University.

Schools with athletes competing for an event or all-around title only are: Centenary College, Southern Connecticut State University, West Chester University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

Bridgeport has won the team title the last five years and tied with Cornell in 2009. …

USAG

April 11-13 – USA Gymnastics Women’s Collegiate National Championships, Brown University – Providence, R.I.

Vault
1. Elsabeth Black CAN 14.362
2. Courtney McGregor NZL 14.312
3. Maegan Chant CAN 14.3

Bars
1. Elizabeth Price USA 14.6
2. Kyla Ross USA 14.35
3. Georgia-Rose Brown AUS 14.15

Beam
1. Kyla Ross USA 15.025
2. Yufen Xie CHN 14.9
3. Elizabeth Price USA 14.625

Floor
1. Elizabeth Price USA 14.95
2. Kyla Ross USA 14.5
3. Aleeza Yu CAN 13.975

Floor
1. Scott Morgan CAN 14.85 VIDEO
2. John Orozco USA 14.7
3. Toshiya Ikejiri JPN 14.35

Pommel Horse
1. Shengchao Yang CHN 13.75
2. Weifeng Cai CHN 13.65
3. Jorge Giraldo COL 13.55

Rings
1. Chih-Yu Chen TPE 15.4
2. John Orozco USA 14.95
3. Scott Morgan CAN 14.85

Vault
1T. Jossimar Calvo COL 14.55
1T. Hugh Smith CAN 14.55
3. Wai Hung Shek HKG 14.4

Parallel bars
1. John Orozco USA 15.35
2. Wentian Lu CHN 15.3
3. Jossimar Calvo COL 14.85

High Bar
1. John Orozco USA 15.25
2T. Jossimar Calvo COL 14.6
2T. Shengchao Yang CHN 14.6

Gymnastike has links to full results and videos.