Author: Rick Mc

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

Lexy Ramler – Bhardwaj

Gym Momentum:

Coach Rob Murray … Pak Full Twist.

His gymnast Lexy Ramler successfully competed this winning Bars and All Around at 2013 JO Nationals before moving to elite ranks and competing this skill successfully at USA Championships in Hartford. …

Click PLAY or Lexy’s routine from US Classic on YouTube.

Rob shows a drill for the skill at Gym Momentum Camp 2013. (VIDEO)

Here he is spotting it. (VIDEO)

More girls should train it.

Martina Rizzelli – double double

Examiner:

… here’s Italian EYOF bars champion Martina Rizzelli working a double double tuck dismount off bars.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Posted by Italian women’s National Coach Enrico Casella.

cost of pit foam blocks

Gary Ahlm from Speedy Foam in Minneapolis:

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Sanne Wevers – Beam

Sara Dorrien was in Osijek, very impressed with Sanne Wevers from Netherlands.

… She possesses that rare mix of superior spins and solid acrobatics, and she has some of the most fluid, unique, and non-stop action on beam out there …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

D? 6,100 + E 8,550 = 14,650 (1st)

With only a C-dismount.

Jared Goad questions whether judges credited her last double turn (repeated) as a triple turn.

Update. One judge in the comments counts it 6.1 without the triple turn. With only a C dismount. So the routine has great potential for upgrades.

Couch Gymnast has a good wrap-up report – Osijek: Daring Dutchwomen and Diligent Dames

related – Examiner – Osijek World Cup finals: A competition of surprises

Gabby Douglas biopic

Another one. 🙂

actressLifetime has officially greenlighted a biopic on legendary gymnast Gabby Douglas, and Douglas herself will make an appearance in the film.

The film, which is being produced by Sony Pictures TV, is using the working title, “The Gabby Douglas Story.”

It stars Imani Hakim (“Everybody Hates Chris”) and Sydney Mikayla as Douglas during different phases of her life. “Southland’s” Regina King is set to play Douglas’ mother.

read more on the L.A. Times

The real Gabby seems to have no coach yet in L.A.

via GymFever

new Bruno Grandi interview

Sandra Schmidt of LEON magazine interviewed our President at home:

What are your three main projects for the new Olympic cycle?

Bruno… creating normality in the area of scoring …

… the age question. If you rob a female athlete of all hope of ever making the national team when she is just 13 or 14, if 18-year-olds are considered old – and there are only a few exceptions – what hope is there? A sport that ages early has no future.

… reforming the competition calendar which we will discuss at a symposium this year.

Saying the World Cup [series] is working well is pointless. It is going really badly. It will be crucial to give more importance to the continental championships and the World Cup. They should both ultimately lead to Olympic participation. We need a comprehensive Olympic qualification that starts in the post-Olympic year and ultimately leads up to the 96 athletes in the Olympic season. [Two berths are reserved for athletes representing Africa for a total of 98 Olympics berths – TAA]. …

Will the allocation of Olympic berths change?

There is a possibility, that is to reduce the number of team members from five to four gymnasts. …

read more on The All Around