Author: Rick Mc

The Gymternet posted a series of social media pics from WAG teams.

She has a 6.8 start on FX.

Our next Beyond the Routine series features senior national team member Mykayla Skinner. Everyone who knows Mykayla describes her as a daredevil for her lack of fear and willingness to throw the big skills. While Mykayla has struggled with form, she has been working hard on her flexibility and it has paid off. Martha Karolyi is recognizing her as one of the best of Team USA and Mykayla is ready to prove that to the world.

Episode 1 premieres Tuesday, July 29.

Click PLAY or watch the free trailer on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODE5NzQ4OTc0?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of Mykayla Skinner on gymnastike.org

via @GymCastic

Age 16. Right?

Actually, no.

Not for MAG.

@sbregman87 tweeted the regs:

How do you justify a difference between the Olympic disciplines?

There should be no age restrictions for Olympic competitors.

Coach Deb and her girls wanted to try this balancing challenge on a Tumbl Trak Air Barrel.

That’s dangerous without spot.

So they took it to the pit.

Fun. 🙂

That’s Avant Coeur Gymnastics at IEGA.

Dave Demanty put some of his old photos into a slideshow.

… Bart Conner, Peter Kormann, Tom Beach and others, set to California surf music. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

British Gymnastics:

For the 5th year running, our Women’s National Junior Coach, Nick Ruddock has travelled to Tirrenia, Italy to represent the UEG (European Union of Gymnastics) at the Annual European Training Camp for juniors.

The camp, which takes place from the 12th to the 22nd July, is a chance for upcoming coaches and gymnasts from across Europe to take part in various lectures and practical sessions to help improve the provision of gymnastics throughout the continent and prepare the next generation of budding gymnasts and coaches. …

As the vault expert we ask Nick about Britain’s progress on this piece of apparatus …

“We won vault as a team at the 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival, 2014 European Youth Olympics and Junior Europeans. It’s a combination of a strategy and having the right gymnasts with the right qualities; our current juniors are very powerful and that power translates into time in the air. The Yurchenko full twist used to be a standard vault for us but now we have many girls performing a double twist, hopefully one day pushing towards an Amanar.” …

We wish Nick and our women’s gymnasts (Ondine Achampong & Halle Hilton) and coaches (Elaine Wood & Melanie Ives) the best of luck at the camp.

Nick Ruddock – Preparing the next generation

The AA winner from Cuba of the Pan American Olympic Festival 2014 is an incredibly power vaulter. As powerful as the best in the world.

Click PLAY or watch Vault 1 on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Vault 2 on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her difficult Beam routines on YouTube.

As you’d expect, her tumbling is HUGE. Surprising, however, is the amplitude of her leaps. Excellent.

Click PLAY or watch Yesenia’s FX on YouTube.

I previously posted her Bars.

Yesenia FERRARA would certainly qualify to the AA Final at Worlds 2014, … IF she competes.

Will Cuba send her?

Thanks for the links Yazaira. 🙂

Dragalescu. Easy.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I could see Donnell competing Rings, Pommel and Vault for USA at Worlds 2014. Maybe more.

2014 Men’s National Qualifier

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Lauren Hopkins is a long time Gymnastics pundit frequently posting on Couch Gymnast.

Her new site looks cool. Has a terrific name, And a great URL …

thegymter.net

Check a sample post:

12 NEW U.S. ELITES TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON:

With the Secret U.S. Classic now officially less than two weeks away, we at The Gymternet want to introduce you to a few of the young U.S. elites before they make their big debuts in Hoffman Estates, Ill., on August 2.

1. Delanie Harkness
2. Aria Brusch
3. McKenna Appleton
4. Alyona Shchennikova
5. Margzetta Frazier
6. Marissa Oakley
7. Shilese Jones
8. Bailey Ferrer
9. Adeline Kenlin
10. Morgan Hurd
11. Maggie Musselman
12. Rachel Baumann

12 NEW U.S. ELITES TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON

Click through for bios, photos and video.

… Lauren aims to bring the very best coverage, interviews, contests, quizzes, features, and blogs from the people who really “get” gym – other gym fans. Combined with The Gymternet Message Board, Lauren brings an all-encompassing gym nerd haven for the fans who live and breathe the sport.

A New England native, Lauren is a recent graduate of Columbia University who currently lives in New York City. She is in the process of writing her first young adult book about elite gymnastics in an Olympic year. …

about The Gymternet

Like Couch Gymnast, this site will feature a number of different writers.