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Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
wedding proposal on wakeboard
Former Avant Coeur gymnast Brynn Hathaway is in a viral video. 🙂
Boyfriend (former gymnast) Matthew Gencarella:
As a man you have one opportunity to do the biggest surprise of your life, your proposal. This was my way of creating that once-in-a-lifetime, never-been-done, proposal and having some fun in the process…This is My Proposal! Brynn Hathaway I love you!!!
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
It’s featured on Glamour magazine.
Luke Carson out of Worlds
Here’s a rare injury of note. Broken leg on take-off from Vault.
… Less than two weeks before Carson was set to leave for the World Championships, he traveled to Lowestoft, England for a pre-Worlds camp with the Great Britain team. Everything was going according to plan and seemed normal until a bad punch on the springboard leading into his vault went terribly wrong.
“I took off on the springboard and that’s when I felt the most excruciating pain in my left tibia,” Carson wrote. “I flew through the air and landed on my back screaming in pain. The ambulance came soon after. After X-rays were taken, I am sorry to say I have shattered my tibia.”
The injury in and of itself is odd, happening on the springboard versus the landing. Doctors even believe that an unknown existing stress fracture may be the cause of all of the damage. This latest turn in an unusually unlucky series of events for Carson couldn’t have come at a worse time. Not only will he undoubtedly be out of Worlds but his career could be over.
Photo via @LukeCarson23
Unlike the ladies of the SEC in College Gymnastics, Luke is one of many, many Artistic gymnasts who struggled financially to continue in his sport to the highest level.
At age-25, Mette Hulgaard still lives at home in order to afford to train for her 6th World Championships.
Much higher priority for sports organizations world wide should be funding of their top athletes.
Check in your nation. Compare the salaries of the employees of your Federation with what your top athletes are compensated.
how Auburn travels
NCAA Gymnastics is the most professional in the world.
Especially the SEC.
https://twitter.com/CoachJeffGraba/status/380720357704863745/
Does any National Team in the world travel by private plane?
Jessica Lopez – Osijek Floor
I like the start of this routine, one of the few “new” corners that I like better than simply standing to begin the tumbling line.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Mikael Nissen – triple layout
Team Iceland to Worlds
Worlds Antwerp Belgium
The first event that might be called a World Championships was hosted in Antwerp 1903.
110 years later, a few things have changed. 🙂
• 283 male gymnasts
• 148 female gymnasts
• 144 judges
• 1053 delegation members
Men:
Average age: 23 years, 9 months
Oldest gymnast:06.02.1977 – Mitja Petkovsek (SLO)
Youngest gymnast: 24.08.1996 – Kenzo Shirai (JPN)
Women:
Average age: 19 years, 4 months
Oldest gymnast:19.06.1975 – Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)
Youngest gymnast: 21.12.1997 – Olesya Sazonova (UKR)
#FIG2013Antwerp
#WChAntwerp
Competition begins Sept 30th.
(via WCh Artistic Gymnastics Antwerp – Media Guide)
“I love to watch you play”
I finally read an article by Rachel Macy Stafford. (Many times reposted by friends on Facebook.)
It was partly inspired by a 2012 article by Steve Henson:
What Makes A Nightmare Sports Parent — And What Makes A Great One
Bottom line:
The 6 words parents should say to child athletes:
“I love to watch you play”
GymCastic – Alexander Alexandrov
This week we talked to Elizabeth Booth, lecturer at the University of Greenwich …
Three weeks ago she published the definitive English language interview with legendary Russian coach, Alexander Alexandrov.
You may remember that as the day Tumblr exploded. We got the chronology and details of the Rodionenko-Alexandrov conflict, and chatted about the Rodionenko’s powerful government ties, Grishina Gate, the state of the men’s program, the long history of Soviet gymnastics using the press to air discontent, who may be next in line for the head coaching job and most importantly, what all of this disharmony really says about the state of the Russian gymnastics system. Read the Alexandrov interview here – Alexander Alexandrov in his own words – a commentary, and guide to the interview
Episode 49: Booth on the Alexander Alexandrov Interview
Queen Elizabeth’s essential site is Rewriting Russian Gymnastics.
related – a new Rewriting Russian Gymnastics translated interview with Aliya Mustafina
Aliya’s honesty and directness is refreshing. As is Alexandrov’s. 🙂
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