Author: Rick Mc

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You’d expect the gigantic Unilever corporation to be an evil empire, profiting from making women feel unhappy about their looks.

But some of their Dove brand promotions do just the opposite. 🙂

Dove launched “Love Your Curls” after conducting a survey of 859 women in the U.S., U.K. and Brazil in September 2014. Only 10 percent of women respondents in the U.S. said they “feel proud” of their curly hair, and only four in 10 American girls with curly hair reported thinking that their hair was beautiful.

This campaign is the latest Dove video that aims to help women and girls feel more confident about their appearances, while simultaneously promoting Dove as a brand. …

Dove’s ‘Love Your Curls’ Campaign Celebrates Girls’ Curly Hair

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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Click PLAY or watch frizzy Danusia Francis on YouTube.

NAIGC National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs linked to this fun edit featuring Purdue gymnasts. 🙂

I particularly like the reverse motion at the end.

Click the image to PLAY on Big10s.

Some of the highlights.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (26min)

Birmingham bested bids from Lima (PER) and Ufa (RUS) to win the right to host the 2021 World Games, a huge multisport event known somewhat colloquially as the “Olympic Games for non-Olympic disciplines.”

Gymnastics events contested at the World Games include Synchronised Trampoline, Tumbling, Double-mini Trampoline, Acrobatic Gymnastics, Aerobic Gymnastics and Rhythmic Gymnastics individual event finals. …

The 10th edition of the World Games will be held in Wroclaw (POL) in August, 2017.

FIG – 2021 World Games awarded to Birmingham (USA)

Dr. Bill Sands is now posting some of his research on Advanced Study of Gymnastics. For example:

Vault Board Take Offs – What’s with the “Target” on the Top?

Puzzles and Paradoxes – Gymnastics

He found that Spring Boards vary greatly. That the best place on the Board to jump for each gymnast, for each vault, is often NOT the place on the Board coaches expect.

That’s a very interesting finding. It’s well worth clicking through.

His article includes a screen grab from a video of Sang Lan’s vault from the 1998 Goodwill Games NYC. The one where she was paralyzed. 😦

I’d always heard that no video of that vault existed. It does.

related – gymnasticsinjurydata.com

Dr. Sands is asking coaches to submit information on Gymnastics Injury.

Here’s one of the most insightful NCAA videos I’ve seen so far this year. A real look into what it’s like to travel and compete against the National co-Champions.

Auburn (1-1, 0-1) scored a season-high 195.650 at … Florida last week, led by all-around title winner Caitlin Atkinson’s total of 39.500 and won beam with a 9.925.

Click image to watch it on AuburnTigers.

Caitlin looks awesome. 🙂

related from last weekend:

• Gymternet – NCAA Meet-by-Meet Coverage: Week 3

• Gymternet – The NCAA Wrap-Up: Week 3

Keara Glover – Arkansas

… open-heart surgery.

“It was a painful procedure,” Glover recalls. “They had to literally crack open my ribs to get to my heart. They went in and removed as much of the aneurysm as they could. They couldn’t remove all of it, so I still have it and do yearly checkups to monitor it.”

The surgery was successful and she spent the entire summer of 2013 recovering from the procedure. It was a difficult time for Glover, as she had to stay indoors and not partake in any gymnastics activity during the recovery process. …

She resumed competing on the bars in the final five meets of the 2014 season. The highlight of her return came on March 1, as she posted a career-best score of 9.85 on the bars at Georgia.

She has continued to further recover from her open-heart surgery, as she has had no setbacks since returning to action in 2014. …

Arkansas gymnast Keara Glover overcomes heart surgery

(via FIG)