Author: Rick Mc

Vegas, baby.

Despite ongoing stereotypes, the slovenly curler is the exception now, not the rule. Many of today’s top curlers are as fit as figure skaters — Russian skip Anna Sidorova, in fact, is a former figure skater. …

Happy Valentine’s Day, from the dreamiest curlers in the Olympics

And how about the guys?

Team Brad Jacobs from Canada, for example.

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related:

• Team Jacobs Fitness (VIDEO)

• Men of Curling calendar

Road to Nationals NCAA rankings

MAG scores UTRS 2013 and 2014 | WAG UTRS 2013 and TAA 2014

NCAA MAG Facebook | social media

FIG links | African Gymnastics Championships on Facebook | RESULTS

British Championships #2014British

Olympic gold medalist and four-time World champion Kohei Uchimura (JPN) is one of the most “rhythmical” gymnasts music professor Lasse Nettum has ever seen. In order to demonstrate what happens when a piece of music corresponds well with a gymnast’s natural movement, Nettum composed this original piece to accompany Uchimura’s horizontal bar routine from the 2011 World Championships. The video was presented as part of an artistry and music workshop at the Artistic World Championships in Antwerp (BEL) last fall.

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The Florida gymnastics team continues to have a successful and historical season as the defending NCAA Champions!

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Florida is still the team to beat.

But BeamMeUpBama posted an analysis of the OU v LSU Metroplex competition concluding that those insanely high scores were not insane. All but a very few were deserved.

(via Ronald Dupont)

Yuri Marmerstein:

What we are looking for is that the arms are vertical. This means that the shoulder should be directly over the hand. …

Can you stack your hips directly above the hands without learning forward? Probably not unless you have amazing flexibility and the right proportions of length of arms, legs, and torso. This means that we must be in a mechanically inefficient position for some time.

Shoulder lean can be minimized by maintaining a strong base and demonstrating maximum compression in the body. …

“Order of Operations” in Press Handstand

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via Fred Turoff:

The Temple University Board of Trustees recently announced that they will eliminate seven athletic programs as of July 1st, 2014. These teams are Women’s Softball, Men’s Baseball, Men’s Crew, Women’s Rowing, Men‘s Gymnastics, and Men’s Track and Field. These sports are historic to Temple University. While we want to see all of the sports stay our main goal is to save our beloved program.

They have produced professional athletes, U.S national team members and Olympians to go forth and be successful, while not only representing Temple University, but also the United States and now all of that is being taken away.

The Board and University Administration are blaming the Title IX Amendment for equality in funding for men and women, lack of funding and to run leaner so the surviving sports can grow. Raising this money will force them to really answer for why they are cutting these sports.

If this effort does not succeed in reinstating the Temple Men’s Gymnastics Program, then the money raised will be endowed to the protection and possible creation of other Division 1 teams around the country.

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Final Home Meet for Temple Men’s Gymnastics?

March 26-28th, 2014

37 countries confirm their definitive participation.

more posters on dohagym.com

And the Cover of the Premiere Issue of Inside Dance Goes to…Travis Wall!

“I’m honored to have been selected to appear in the cover story for the premiere issue of Inside Dance. I love the approach the magazine is taking in presenting a fun, fresh take on the world of dance and I’m excited to be able to engage with fans through this exciting new magazine!”

A new publication from the people that bring us Inside Gymnastics.

details on InsideDance.com

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