Click PLAY or watch his Horizontal Bar on Facebook.
Year: 2016
top NCAA Men’s gymnasts (so far)
FX
1. Zach Liebler (Minnesota)
2. Akash Modi (Stanford).
3. Colin Van Wicklen (Oklahoma)
PH
1. Brandon Ngai (Illinois)
2. Timmy Wang (Air Force)
3. Alec Yoder (Ohio State)
Click PLAY or watch Alec’s Pommels on YouTube. Team USA could use this routine.
SR
1. Sean Melton (Ohio State)
2. Alex Diab (Illinois)
3. Thao Hoang (Oklahoma)
Click PLAY or watch Sean’s Rings on YouTube.
VT
1. Anthony McCallum (Michigan)
2. Yaro Pochinka (Minnesota)
3. Taylor Seaton (Stanford)
PB
1. Yul Moldauer (Oklahoma)
2. Sean Melton (Ohio State)
3. Dennis Zaremski (Stanford)
Click PLAY or watch Yul’s P Bars on YouTube.
HB
1. Chase Cannon (Air Force)
2. Jesse Glenn (Army)
3. Andrew Rickly (Ohio State)
AA
1. Akash Modi (Stanford)
2. Allan Bower (Oklahoma)
3. Kevin Wolting (Cal)
Allan’s had a great season. Click PLAY or watch his Vault on YouTube.
full men’s rankings
related – Stick it Media – Upcoming Conference Championships Will Dominate Weekend
qualities of a gymnast
1. Dedication
2. Competitiveness
3. Perseverance
4. Discipline
“Don’t be so hard on yourself.”
“But I have to be. I’m a gymnast.” …
4 Qualities That Stick With You Forever If You Were A Childhood Gymnast
Ryohei Kato TV news spot
Kato was injured last year – where else? 😦 – on competition Vault landing mats. He’s pleased the ankle has recovered sufficiently to compete the AA.
… focusing on Ryohei Kato’s performance at the American Cup last month, and his preparation for the All Japan Championships this weekend (4/1-3). In Japanese and English.
If you wear headphones one earpiece is in English, the other Japanese.
Click PLAY or watch it on Daily Motion.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40h3ri_20160328ryohei-kato-news-bilingual_sport
how parents can keep Gymnastics FUN
1. Focus on improving skills and not on the result of the competition.
4. Remind your child how far she has come since she began the sport.
9. Don’t compare your child to teammates.
12. Build on the sports experience to create happy childhood memories.
Click through to <a href="https://annejosephson.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/12-ways-to-keep-gymnastics-fun-for-your-child/ ” target=”_blank”>Jag Gym Blog to read the rest.
Zarkana closing
Last chance to see Zarkana in Vegas.
… MGM Resorts has announced Zarkana will wrap on April 30, and a new show won’t be taking its place. Instead, Aria’s award-winning, LEED Gold-certified convention center will be expanded in a big way …
Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.
Flyboard world champion Gemma Weston
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
Men’s African Championships FINALS
FLOOR
1. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 14.350 pts
2. Wissem Harzi (Tunisia) 14.300 pts
3. Mohamed Aouicha (Algeria) 14.100 pts
POMMELS
1. Mohamed Aouicha (Algeria) 14.750 pts
2. Hillel Metidji (Algeria) 14.250 pts
3. Wissem Harzi (Tunisia) 14.150 pts
RINGS
1. Ali Zahran Ramadan (Egypt) 15.150 pts
2. Tarek Shalaby (Egypt) 14.150 pts
3. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 13.750 pts
results
Click PLAY or watch Ali Zahran Ramadan on Facebook. Best Victorian position I’ve ever seen.
VAULT
1. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 14.725 pts
2. Hamza Hossaini (Morocco) 14.425 pts
3. Mohamed Moubarek (Algeria) 13.850 pts
P BARS
1. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 14.250 pts
2. Hillel Metidji (Algeria) 14.200 pts
3. Harzi Wissem (Tunisia) 13.900 pts
Click PLAY or watch Metidji on Facebook.
H BAR
1. Mohamed Raghib (Algeria) 13.950 pts
2. Ahmed Almaraghy (Algeria) 13.450 pts
3. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 12.950 pts.
results
Women’s African Championships FINALS
UPDATED with all apparatus. Though the host Algerian Gymnastics Federation has still not posted results, I found them on the Algerian Press Service.
VAULT
1. Kirsten Beckett (South Africa) 13.549 pts
2. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 13.066 pts
3. Mai El Sayed (Egypt) 12.966 pts
BARS
1. Armia Zakaria Rahaf (Egypt) 13.133 pts
2. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 12.866 pts
3. Kirsten Beckett (South Africa) 12.500 pts
results
BEAM
1. Nada Mohamed (Egypt) 13.133 pts
2. Lukisha Schalk (South Africa) 12.500 pts
3. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 12.000 pts
FLOOR
1. Mandy Mohamed (Egypt) 13.600 pts
2. Kirsten Beckett (South Africa) 13.233 pts
3. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 13.166 pts
results
Click PLAY or watch some video on Facebook.
There’s additional video (MAG & WAG) on this YouTube channel.
(via Cordelia)
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