Author: Rick Mc

According to that expert Make It Or Break It coach. 🙂

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John Brenkus and the Sport Science team examines the physics behind one of the most difficult tricks in snowboarding.

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Does that all look correct to you?

John Brenkus has voiced over erroneous biomechanics in the past. He thinks that’s a double twist. 🙂

Winter X Games 2015 Aspen begins today.

Sweet. 🙂

Cool idea.

via GymFever2012

Early Wednesday morning I saw Stephan Duchesne say he’d been evacuated. Reason unknown.

Next Grace Chiu linked to the breaking story on Facebook.

Here’s what happened.

Double Olympic gold-medalist Shannon Miller’s ex-husband is arrested after bomb disposal experts discover cache of dangerous chemicals – as hundreds are evacuated from homes in Canada

That Daily Mail article is exhaustive. And exhausting. See how many errors you can spot. 🙂

Shannon:

“I’m thankful that the brave men and women of the Ottawa police department and other law enforcement agencies were able to apprehend him and (defuse) the situation without incident,” Miller said in a statement released by her manager, Nick Furris.

Their marriage was troubled, to say the least.

Compilation by Greg Roe.

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There are some BIG tricks in College gymnastics this season.

She didn’t compete it last meet, but it sounds like they plan to use it. :-}

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MissLyra has improved her English subtitled version. And uploaded the new version to YouTube.

Elena Mukhina … features Natalia Shaposhnikova and Maria Filatova while training and also contains a talk between Mukhina and her coach Mikhail Klimenko. …

Soviet coaches were feeling pressure after being beaten by Nadia. They wanted to add new and revolutionary elements to their routines.

Mukhina and Klimenko are shown in the edit to have problems. But the story ends before Elena was paralyzed in a training accident (Thomas salto) 2 weeks before the opening of the 1980 Summer Olympics. (Klimenko was not present at the time of the accident.)

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Fitness on the Run is a fitness site run by former gymnast Jon Ham.

Here he and another former gymnast, Chris Silcox, train using the Heart Zones Smart Heart wearable app.

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Thanks to Tumbl Trak founder Doug Davis for showing me this video.

This Girl Can celebrates the women who are doing their thing no matter how they do it, how they look or even how sweaty they get. They’re here to inspire us to wiggle, jiggle, move and prove that judgement is a barrier that can be overcome.

#thisgirlcan

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Sport England’s new campaign to encourage girls and women to exercise is a triumph

(via FIG and Rec Gymnastics)