Author: Rick Mc

Nope. Guilia clarifies that it’s a promo for the Italian Championships in September.

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.

Four Level 10 junior elite all-around champions were crowned at the 2015 JO Nationals.

Yul Moldauer won his second career JO Nationals all-around title, and also captured individual titles on four events (FX,SR,VT,PB). …

Grant Breckenridge, a Stanford signee, won a hard-fought battle to earn his first JO title. He also claimed top honors on VT. …

In the 16-year-old division, Matthew Wenske earned event titles on FX and PB, propelling him to his first JO Nationals all-around title. …

Also winning his second career JO Nationals all-around crown was Cameron Bock, who put together two great days to win the 15-year-old division. …
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Four more all-around titles were awarded in the evening JO Division competition. Minnesota signee Vitaly Kan earned his first JO Nationals title, winning the 17-year-old division. …

Taylor Fletcher won the 18-year-old division …

Frankie Valentin won in a close contest in the 16-year-old division over Kyte Crigger. …

Joe Dixon captured the championship in the 15-year-old division. …

Stick it Media – Moldauer, Breckenridge, Wenske & Bock Earn Level 10 JE Titles

Kohei’s not perfect. But he is the greatest who ever lived.

Click PLAY or watch his 5th AA World Championships win on Facebook.

Click PLAY or watch it on CBS News.

http://www.cbsnews.com/common/video/cbsnews_video.swf

One of Time Magazine‘s 100 Most Influential People of 2015.

Though he sometimes overstates, to emphasize, I always enjoy Goldsmith’s take. If you are involved in Coach Education, click through.

• Teach coaches to listen to and understand the needs of each individual athlete

• Don’t assume all coaches want to be elite coaches

• Scrap the competency based philosophy. … Keep it simple. Assess coaches when they are coaching. …

• … don’t teach WHAT – TEACH HOW

Ten smart things we should be doing in the interest of better coach education

Tawnya:

Music is No Longer Just Music…it’s Potential Floor Music

My Living Room is Now a Practice Gym

My 10-Year-Old is Ripped

My Car is My Gymnast’s Home Away from Home

Gymnastics is Expensive, Time Consuming, and Emotional, but we wouldn’t have it Any Other Way

10 Things Only Gymnast’s Moms Understand

Click through to see the rest. 🙂

Our Olympic Trampoline Champion. #allsweatisequal

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Yep. You need be courageous to compete this sport.

Here’s a VERY dramatic dramatization of one girl overcoming a challenge on Bars.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/73949321

That was edited for the TRC Gymnastics 2013 Banquet Video to benefit CFF.

related – “We Are Gymnasts” – the TRC Gymnastics 2012 Banquet Video

(via Chalk Bucket)

Trampoline Tricks with Steve Gluckstein

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(via Gymnast Crossing)

1. Full, Double Full, Triple Full
2. Rudi through to Quad Twist
3. Full-Full Tuck to ½ Out
4. Full-Full Straight + ½
5. Miller Straight (Check the nice arms by the sides)
6. Arabian-Split-Rudi Out
7. Miller Straight + ½
8. Full-Full Straight to Triple Full
9. Miller+

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

via coach Matthew Sparks