tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
You may not learn much new, but I highly recommend you click over to laugh out loud at the Balance Beam Situation primer for the upcoming College season. 🙂
What about individual titles?
HOW DARE YOU, SHUT YOUR FILTHY MOUTH. It’s all about the team. In NCAA, any acknowledgement of individual goals or the desire to win an individual title—or any honest assessment of your own individual gymnastic abilities—is tantamount to treason …
Preseason camp.
Click PLAY or watch Day 2 on Facebook.
That’s the title of a NY Times article by JULIET MACUR, the best I’ve read so far on the issue.
Sexual Abuse Charges Put Shadow on U.S. Gymnastics Federation
To learn more listen to GymCastic 221: Jane Doe vs. USAG Doctor.
Similar to Parkour/Freerunning … but there are differences. Tricking is a big component. It’s done indoors with pits and trampolines when available.
It’s sponsored in the U.K. by British Gymnastics.
Click PLAY or watch a Baskerville’s promo on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch a Gymnastics Australia promo on YouTube.
The longest duration holding an iron cross position on Roman rings was 39.23 sec by Zak Kerkoulas (USA) at the Field House at Chelsea Piers in New York, New York, USA, on 27 August 2010. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Better – but only 33 seconds – was the previous record holder Tyler Yamaguchi (2009).
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Somebody somewhere has held a Cross longer. Leave a comment if you know of that person.
Stefanie Gatin, 7, trains with the Panthers Gymnastics Club (Winnipeg) …
She got the opportunity through Barbie’s You Can Be Anything Campaign to become a CFL coach for the day. …
Click PLAY or watch the boys STRETCH on Facebook.
(via Marian Gymnastics)
A former Olympian and her husband … receive a national award, … ‘ordinary people who have done extraordinary things’.
Len and Yvonne Arnold sold their home to support the Europa Centre – a gymnastics centre in Crayford.
The couple then were awarded a National Lottery grant for a new facility ahead of the London 2012 Olympics. …
Max Whitlock was the presenter.
If you’ve met Len and Yvonne you know this tribute was well deserved. Europa is now one of the best facilities in the U.K. 🙂
USA Gymnastics recently learned that the database of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has been hacked and that drug-testing reports for several U.S. Olympic athletes, including Simone Biles, have been breached. …
“Simone has filed the proper paperwork per USADA and WADA requirements, and there is no violation,” said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. …
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