Author: Rick Mc

Update – Information is being posted on the Gymnastics Canada Facebook.

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Gymnastics Canada is notoriously poor at communicating their stories. One of the poorest of the top Gymnastics nations.

If you go to their home page right now, you’ll see no indication that one of the biggest competitions of the seasons is happening.

If you click through to NEWS, there’s no news about Elite Canada. 😦

Trois-Rivières, Quebec
JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There’s no competition today Thursday, only men’s physical ability testing.

MEN’S Thursday schedule

Olympic gymnast Ellie Black begins her 2015 season this weekend at Elite Canada in Trois-Rivieres, Que. …

With a World Cup event in Texas in early March, and an international team competition in Italy later in March, Black, a two-time Canadian all-around champion, will limit herself to competing on the balance beam this week. …

Herald

We’re hoping to see these two Olympians back together again. 🙂

WOMEN’S Thursday schedule

I’m getting the schedule from Gymnastics BC who posted the Technical document here.

Lauren Hopkins and Sarah Chrane post the most detailed women’s NCAA coverage. Here’s their wrap-up from last weekend – Gymternet – NCAA Meet-by-Meet Coverage

Samantha Peszek could have retired from competitive gymnastics last year. Instead, her scores are soaring in her final UCLA season.

The fifth-year senior is a 2008 Olympic silver medalist … . Peszek, 23, ranks No. 1 in the NCAA in the all-around (39.588 average) and on balance beam (9.917). …

Olympian Peszek making most of final college gymnastics season

The best men’s NCAA report after last weekend was posted by Ron Noe.

Stick it Media – Penn State Highlights Weekend in College Men’s Gymnastics

Akash Modi leads the men’s AA rankings by a LARGE margin.

A link to the College rankings is available from any page of this site in the top of the right hand navigation – NCAA Road to Nationals.

Mary-Anne as been posting weekly video updates on her progress. The exercises are good – I particularly like the drills on the Spring Board – but the video editing is even better.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Check the rest of her videos on YouTube.

Yamawaki with a 1/1.

 
Click PLAY or watch Paolo Principi on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch another (older) attempt on YouTube.

 
Owen Walstrom was a Canadian gymnast, a teammate of the great Philippe Delasalle.

The original “Wally Whirl” looked nothing like this, however. It was more of a barrel roll over the bar. :-

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Shatilov can swing. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – Do Yamawakis exist?

via Nico on GymFever2012

HUGE.

(via The Gym Press)

A work in progress.

via Nico on GymFever2012

Moors, who withdrew from Canada’s team at last year’s Commonwealth Games and hasn’t competed since winning the bronze all-around medal at the 2014 Canadian Championships in May, is one of 35 senior women listed on the meet’s athlete registration released by Gymnastics Canada this week. …

Victoria Moors Expected to Return to Competition at Elite Canada

See the complete list of Elite Canada competitors, MAG and WAG, registered via that link. There are some missing with injuries – 2014 Worlds team member Jordyn Pedersen 😦 – for example, but fewer than usual I reckon.

Some of those on the registered list may not actually compete, of course, due to last minute injuries.

Other names on the list I’m looking forward to see returning include …

Jessica Dowling from Tori’s club, Dynamo. Coach Elvira Saadi.

Sabrina Gill now at Manjak’s.

Good luck to ALL Elite Canada competitors. I’ll be posting highlights on this site.

Jan 29 – Feb 1st, 2015
Trois Rivieres, Quebec

John Crumlish:

Canadian veteran gymnast Christine (Peng-Peng) Lee told IG that she is pacing herself in her recent return to competition for UCLA after a pre-Olympic knee injury kept her out of competition for two-and-a-half years.

“I’m not really putting pressure on myself to be perfect,” said Lee following Monday’s meet against the University of Arizona at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. “There’s obviously a lot of things I can improve upon, and I think just trying to get back … “

Lee … was one of Canada’s top prospects for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. She finished 19th all-around at the 2011 world championships in Tokyo, and led Canada to a Games-winning team berth at the Olympic test event in London in January 2012.

In training at the Canadian championships in May 2012, Lee tore her left ACL. She served as honorary captain of the Canadian women’s gymnastics team at the London Olympics that summer, after which she enrolled at UCLA. …

Carol-Angela Orchard:

The photo montage was done by one of our Sport Seneca parents: Megan Douglas (mother of Ella Douglas).

… she is not ruling out future international competitions including the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

“I have considered it,” she told IG. “I would love to go to 2016. Right now I’m focusing on the season, but after the season, it would be great to do another world championships or go to Rio. That’s definitely a long-term goal of mine, and I’ve kept it in the back of my head.”

read more – IG – Lee Finding Her Rhythm in Recent Comeback

We’re glad to have her back. 🙂

Try to find a deduction.

Thanks Mary.

Crushing it again this year.

Congratulations. This is what’s possible when Gymnastics is well marketed.