Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Red Panda muscle-ups

All pandas love to do gymnastics. That’s my impression. 🙂

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These pandas live in Panda World RESERVE in Fuzhou, China. …

(via Holy Cuteness and Aunt Joyce)

Trudy McIntosh at age-29

Catching up with the “inventor” of the McIntosh vault. (Handspring front layout with 1/1.)

She’s won Commonwealth Games gold and performed across the globe with Cirque du Soleil. Now former Lara gymnast Trudy McIntosh is embracing a new challenge, writes JENNA MEADE …

Trudy was visiting family having just wrapped up a successful five-year career with Cirque du Soleil, one which whisked her away to 46 different countries across the globe.

But now, the former golden girl of sport is about to embark on an exciting new chapter.

Trudy will next week fly to Denmark to be reunited Danish partner and fellow circus performer Lars Kristensen as they await the birth of their first child — a little girl, due in three months. …

Trudy’s personal triumph

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Indo Pacific Championships

100 days until the competition.

Sun 29 June – Sat 5 July 2014

A Trampoline, Tumbling and Acrobatic Gymnastics competition comes to Sun City, South Africa. Indo Pacific Championships take place every two years. …

Hosted by the South African Gymnastics Federation, the 2014 Championships will be held at the fantastic Superbowl, Sun City 29 June – 05 July 2014, with all participants scheduled to stay at the Sun City Resort.

Indo Pacific Champs

official website

I watched some of the Namibian team training yesterday in Walvis Bay.

Walvis Bay

10 Things to be Careful About When Dating a Gymnast

This via Mackay Gymnastics on Facebook:

1. If she’s had a bad day at practice…STAY AWAY AND BE VERY AFRAID!

2. Don’t ever come in the gym, EVER. Chalk, sweat, wedgies…it’s not a pretty sight.

3. Don’t ask her what she’s working on. You will never understand what she’s talking about.

4. Beware of her Coaches!! It’s often scarier to meet them than to meet her parents.

5. Don’t ask her to compete with you in anything unless you are ready to lose and be humiliated. When she gets competitive, she will not stop until she’s victorious.

6. During competition season, practice comes first. Don’t ever think you are more important than the gym.

7. When you decide to date a gymnast, make sure you realize she will be in the gym more than she’s with you.

8. Don’t be surprised when out on a date and she eats more than you do. And definitely DON’T call attention to the fact that she does.

9. Don’t be surprised when she’s not as lady-like as all of your other dates. She was raised in a gym where burping and farting is always a contest.

10. If you hurt her, you will have a whole gym full of gymnasts, who can all whoop your butt, and the coaches after you.

It’s time to watch Alicia drop that guy again, on YouTube. 🙂