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Thema Williams Interview

Well spoken. A very mature point of view.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (17min)

related – Gymternet – The Trinidad Situation Explained

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Nile Wilson Horizontal Bar

Age 12 to 20.

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RollOverHunger.com

Alicia and that guy she married instead of me are promoting a Purina fund-raiser for hungry pets. #RollOverHunger

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Uchimura 16.15 Horizontal Bar

Huge difficulty. Execution as good as anyone in the world.

Despite two conspicuous angle deductions, on any given day I’d say Kohei is the man to beat on this apparatus.

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coach at Chelsea Piers

Chelsea Piers Connecticut is looking for a highly qualified and experienced head coach to build, develop and set the vision for our competitive gymnastics teams in our beautiful 15,000 sq. ft. gym. The gym is part of the 465,000sq.ft. sports and fitness complex in Stamford, CT . This is a full time position with a competitive salary and benefit plan. We are also accepting applications for boys & girls team coaches. Interested candidates should send a resume to Jobs (a) Chelseapiersct.com and Phil Mincone at mincop (a)chelseapiersct.com.

Takahiro Goshima – twisting

Cabriole sends a link to Goshima’s FX from NHK Cup. He was 7.2 & 15.50 there.

Click PLAY or watch him on Twitter. Fwd 1/1 to 3 1/5. And Bwd 1 1/2 to 3/1. Wow!

https://twitter.com/taka_gym_223/status/728521257050775552

He does Bwd 3 1/5 to Fwd 2/1 in training on the very SPRINGY Senoh Floor. Just like Kenzo.

Kato and Uchimura

Gymnast #391 linked to videos.

Click PLAY or watch Kohei Uchimura on YouTube. (93.35)

Click PLAY or watch Ryohei Kato on YouTube. (90.7)

Yusuke Tanaka was only 0.1 behind Kato combined over the last two meets. I’d say he and Kenzo are the next two most likely to qualify for Japan’s Olympic Team.

Have you seen Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian forensic pathologist who fights against efforts by the National Football League to suppress his research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain degeneration suffered by professional football players?

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.

Anyone who boxes or plays football should know the risks by now. I’m more concerned for coaches and athletes in sports who assume they are at low risk of micro-trauma injury to the brain. Trampoline? Artistic Gymnasts?

related – League of Denial