A cute, inspiring video promoting Turn School Rijssen.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Gregory V Roe Trampoline)
via The All Around Gymnastics News
FX 1.Shirai 16.325, 2.Uchimura 15.500, 3.Park 14.800
PH 1.Kameyama 15.300, 2.Kato 14.925, 3.Keatings 14.375
SR 1.Zanetti 15.875, 2.Yamamuro 15.625, 3.Nguyen 15.375

VT: 1.Phan 14.850, 2.Murakami 14.400, 3.Do 13.675
UB: 1.Moors 13.800, 2.Heo 13.600, Inoue 13.500
This is an Apparatus Finals (CIII) competition. …
… In the news, Uncle Tim and Jess chat about:
The Glasgow World Cup: Popa dazzles, equipment fails, the after party and Ilordache on top even after a fall on her full!
Espoir Championships – Watching the GB juniors dancing their booties off!
Reviews of the NCAA intrasquad preview: Florida, Alabama, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Michigan, Utah and UCLA. The choreography tragedies, skill trends and Kathy-Johnson inducing moments. …
GymCastic – 64: Glasgow World Cup & NCAA 2014 Previews
NCAA news.
Southern Utah University gymnastics has announced a new gymnastics alliance, joining Utah State, Boise State, Denver and Brigham Young in the Mountain Rim Gymnastics Championship. The group will look at becoming the Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference in 2014-15 when the league is anticipated to be fully recognized by the NCAA. …
Superb edit.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The guys look like they could give Michigan a run at Championships.
(via gymnastikfabriken)
You might have seen trials-riding legend Martyn Ashton’s Road Bike Party on YouTube, where he rides Mark Cavendish’s high-end road bike where road bikes have never gone before. The video has been viewed more than nine million times.
Ashton was close to finishing his sequel Road Bike Party 2 video when he tumbled during a September trials demo and broke his back, leaving him in a wheelchair. Pals – like trials champions and veteran YouTubers Danny MacAskill and Chris Akrigg – helped him finish the video …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Outside)
I just listened on GymCastic to the first interview I’ve heard with Fred:
Last week, the Philadelphia institution announced they were dropping seven of their 24 sports, including men’s gymnastics. Coach Turoff told us the despicable details including:
• The way Temple University told student athletes that their sports were being dropped the Friday before finals week.
• The impact Temple’s disappearance could have on all of men’s gymnastics, NCAA gymnastics and by extension Team USA.
• How the committee who made the cuts met in secret over months to avoid allowing the coaches to appeal to the Board of Trustees, which they had done successfully in 1994 when the program was threatened.
• What you can do to help the program survive.
episode 65: NCAA Judge Dean Ratliff, Early Recruiting & Saving Temple Men’s Gymnastics
A member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame as a coach, Fred Turoff is now enjoying his 38th season at the helm of the Owls’ program. Turoff has coached 18 EIGL/ECAC title teams and has a lifetime coaching record of 432-184 (.701). …
Fred request that anyone who would like to help should get a “fact sheet” on the situation. Email him at …
fturoff (a) temple.edu
BEST help would be for us to write key people at Temple University. Or find a donor willing to establish a fund of about $4.6 million.
Contact info for administrators:
Dr. Neil D. Theobald
President, Temple University
2nd Floor, Sullivan Hall
1330 Polett Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-204-7405 (phone)
215-204-5600 (fax)
president@temple.eduPatrick J. O’Connor, Chair
Temple U Board of Trustees
c/o Office of the Secretary
Sullivan Hall – 3rd Fl Mezzanine
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: 215-204-7308
trustees@temple.eduKevin G. Clark, Vice President and Director of Athletics
Temple University
1700 N Broad St – 4th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-204-7759
athletics@temple.edu