Author: Rick Mc

Crazy cool.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTYxNzI1ODE2?related=1&autoplay=false

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Cheryl Zwarkowski linked to this image on Facebook.

s’truth

Thanks Dave.

The Caribbean Fest is January 25 & 26, 2014 and is a men’s & women’s USAG invitational that will be held at G Force Gymnastics in Ashburn, Virginia. The meet directors are 2x Silver Medalist Annia Hatch and nationally recognized men’s coach Macey Watson. Competitors are Women’s levels 3-10 & Xcel, and Men’s 4-10. …

They have partnered with Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC, a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, as a way to give back to the community. …

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Carmen Ionescu from Romania competed that skill first internationally, certainly by 2000.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2001)

Do you give her the 3 ½ twist?

It’s named after Spanish gymnast Patricia Moreno.

Click PLAY or watch it during her Bronze medal routine at the 2004 Olympics.

What a quick tumbler!

She competed it as a Junior. And attempted a Quad twist

Those links are from an excellent WOGymnastike post – Meet The Originators: Triple Full And Half

It’s got many more links including quad twist attempts.

It sounds like the Chinese team is pushing this element.

Only in the U.S. of A.

Mike Meissner coached a youth baseball team in North Carolina for sixteen years.

“I think I’ve made a difference in some kids’ lives,” he says.

He sought to teach his players not only about the game but about sportsmanship and being a good loser.

But, when he thinks back on those sixteen years, the first thing that comes to mind is not the positive lessons he imparted upon his players — it is the lawsuit. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Finally, a jury decided that Mike was not negligent in conducting his pop fly drill that day.

Though he was eventually vindicated, the lawsuit still taints Mike’s memories of the many years he spent as a volunteer coach.

“What you don’t need is something like this discouraging people from the thought of going out and helping other children,” he says.

This video is part of the FacesOfLawsuitAbuse.org campaign.

Italian Olympic diver.

Thanks Tom.

Gymnastics Olympica from Van Nuys, California put this together FUNNY edit for their annual awards day. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Gymnast Crossing)

All hail.

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… I can see that double double off Beam in competition. She could do it.

Triple Twist:

… She was innovative and unique; a crowd pleaser and yet she wasn’t able to realize her dream of making it to the Olympics. (Despite being one of Canada’s top gymnasts for many years)

It’s sad to think about what Charlotte might have accomplished had she not gotten injured one year shy of the Olympic games. …

read more – Bringing Back: Charlotte Mackie

Click PLAY or watch her 2006 Beam on YouTube.

1-arm Onodi end of the routine!

She never competed NCAA. 😦

The wonderful-in-every-way Rie Tanaka is hanging up the grips at age-26.

Recall she didn’t qualify to Worlds until age-23.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed for the Japanese national team which finished eighth in the Women’s artistic team all-around. She also took part in the individual all-around, where she finished 16th. …

Longines, official timekeeper and data handler at the 42nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2010 in Rotterdam, is pleased to announce that the Longines Prize for Elegance has been given to the female gymnast Rie Tanaka from Japan and the male gymnast Philipp Boy from Germany. …

Longines

(via WOGymnastike)