Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Kenzo Shirai wins Tokyo Cup

1. Kenzo Shirai (JPN) 86.064
2. Wataru Tanigawa (JPN) 84.399
3. Sam Mikulak (USA) 84.098
4. Artur Dalaloyan (RUS) 81.464
5. Andreas Bretschneider (GER) 80.298
6. Yevgen Yudenkov (UKR) 78.597
7. Fernandez Tallon (ESP) 76.731

Kenzo

Mai Murakami wins Tokyo Cup

With a very impressive score in front of a home crowd.

1. Mai Murakami (JPN) 56.532
2. Trinity Thomas (USA) 54.533
3. Melanie Dos Santos (FRA) 53.998
4. Angelina Simakova (RUS) 53.732
5. Elisabeth Seitz (GER) 52.299
6. Aiko Sugihara (JPN) 51.933
7. Victoria Woo (CAN) 48.465

Gymneo – Backward Salto on Floor

Their most recent skill in French.

Click PLAY or watch a teaser on Facebook.

The English translation will be released soon. Paid members (like myself) get access to both French and English versions.

en.gymneo.tv

that George Washington Leo

Like many who heard about it on GymCastic #299, I was wondering what the suit of armour leotard looked like at Regionals.

Pretty cool.

elite gymnasts successful in NCAA

Kyla Ross, Madison Kocian, Maggie Nichols, Katelyn Ohashi, Brenna Dowell, Felicia Hano, Peng Peng Lee, MyKayla Skinner

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

National Gymnastics Teal Day

Click PLAY or watch Buttercup on YouTube.

Monika Míčková on eating disorders in Rhythmic

Monika Míčková is a retired Czech rhythmic gymnast. She competed Worlds 6 times.

She posted an awful retrospective of her long career. It begins with …

You’re fat.

You are lazy.

You are incompetent.

You are stupid.

From the mouth of the coaches I heard these words almost every day and took them as a normal part of the drill. They also behaved equally to other girls, regardless of age and performance. No one imagined something strange going on, everyone accepted that it was supposed to be. …

You can read it here. (Czech)

I used Google Translate.

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Laurie Hernandez – picture book

Laurie’s second book drops Oct. 9th. In time for Christmas.

She Got This.

animated humanoids self-taught Gymnastics

You can tell they are self-taught. 😀

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… Learning from scratch, and with limited human intervention, the digital characters learned how to kick, jump, and flip their way to success. What’s more, they even learned how to interact with objects in their environment, such as barriers placed in their way or objects hurled directly at them.

Gizmodo – After Millions of Trials, These Simulated Humans Learned to Do Perfect Backflips and Cartwheels