tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Chris Saccullo:
Protect Your Dreams
My entry for the USA Gymnastics’ 50th anniversary ’50 Years in 50 Seconds’ video contest highlighting our 4 Olympic All Around golden girls who remind us all to protect our dreams.
details here
… three finalists will be announced Aug. 12-14 …
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audio from the motion picture “The Pursuit of Happyness”
How many times have you said, “Watch the BEAM” ??
Why doesn’t someone invent a Beam training aid designed to give gymnasts more visual feedback?
That’s the brainchild of coaching legend Leonard Isaac. He first showed it to Tammy Biggs, Kathryn Geddert, Chellsie Memmel and Tumbl Trak Staff in March.
details on Tumbl Talk
Just now made available for sale, the Laser Beam is being introduced at Tumbl Trak “Choose Your Habits” Coaches Clinics nationwide. Those are FREE.
Next HABITS clinic is this Saturday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. (Register here.)
More HABITS clinics.
Having worked with the new floor Beam for weeks now, it’s clear to me that more visual information is better than a blank Beam. But that each gymnasts uses that information in different ways.
It’s most helpful for asymmetric skills (cartwheels, aerial cartwheel, layout step out, backward handspring stepout, side somi, etc.)
related – THE WHO, WHAT, HOW AND WHAT’S NEXT OF THE LASER BEAM by Carrie Spender Lennox
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Bea Gheorghisor is there:
• Romania
• Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany
Victoria Kuzmina … looks healthy and she’s a gymnast with great basics …, but compared to her team mates Kharenkova and Bondareva her difficulty will be low.
Uneven bars, however, will be her event. She did a couple of routines today and although she had breaks here and there (once not being able to come back on the high bar from the low), she looked prepared for a final and even a medal on this event. …
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competition schedule (PDF)
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An Israel Foreign Ministry employee strike is causing visa problems for arriving athletes.
Wikipedia claims:
United States representative Ali Raisman, the 2012 Olympic gymnastics gold winner, is said to be competing. …
… Two of the biggest names attached to the Games are gymnast Aly Raisman and NY Knick Amar’e Stoudemire. Raisman will be a special guest, not a competitor, while Stoudemire will be part of Team Canada’s coaching staff. …
Born July 15, 1913, to Swiss parents, Gene Wettstone holds the record for NCAA men’s team championships by a single coach (9). He learned the sport at the Swiss Gymnastics Association in Union City, N.J., and was a Big Ten champion at Iowa.
He took over the Penn State Nittany Lions in 1938 and produced 45 individual NCAA champions, 12 Olympians and was head coach of two Olympic teams (1948, ’56). …
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August 29, 2013 for the following disciplines:
Gymnasts – Tumblers – Trampolinists – Divers
The call-back session for all of these disciplines will be on August 30, 2013.
In order to receive the address and other details about the audition, candidates must apply online and submit their CV. Photos and videos are not mandatory.
Questions? Comments? Send us an email at casting (a) cirquedusoleil.com
via email from Maud Barré Miniou
I spent 10 wonderful years in the ‘toon. I highly recommend this opportunity.
Women’s Artistic Full-Time Competitive Coach Wanted
Marian Gymnastics Club is the oldest gymnastics club in Saskatchewan, one of the largest and most successful in the province.
Full-time women’s artistic gymnastics coach needed for developmental and provincial stream athletes. Some work with national stream and administration.
Must have proven experience coaching athletes of developmental and provincial levels. Background in dance or choreography an asset
Salary Range: Commensurate with experience and qualifications
Submit resume with salary expectations in confidence to:
chrismariangym (a) gmail.com
Australia crowned two new women’s national champions on Sunday, while former Japanese Olympian Naoya Tsukahara led the men’s all-around at the 2013 Australian Gymnastics Championships at Sydney Olympic Park.
Senior Madelaine Leydin and junior Alexandra Eade won the women’s all-around finals. Both gymnasts train at the Victorian Institute of Sport with Misha Barabach and Tracey Penaluna.
Leydin, who turns 16 on July 28, topped Amaya King Koi (Queensland) and Georgia Godwin to win her first Australian national title. …
The 15-year-old Eade, who was second all-around in 2011, topped Shannon Neate (Queensland) and Franceska Fusha (Western Australia) to win the junior all-around crown. The junior competition allowed a bonus scoring system. …
see results on IG
Traci on Couch Gymnast:
Overall it was somewhat of a disappointing competition, with far too many falls and general errors. Although having our nationals earlier in the season than many countries affords us the time to continue to watch gymnasts in upcoming training camps, it is still difficult to imagine what sort of team we will be sending to Worlds. …
… Although a lot can be said for gaining Worlds experience, I imagine head coach Peggy Liddick will not be too keen to send gymnasts who are quite simply not ready. Depending on how they perform in training camps, veterans Olivia Vivian and Mary Anne Monckton might be in contention for specialist positions. Although they may realistically only compete one apparatus, both have show solid routines with good start values, which should only improve with a little more time. Vivian in particular has the look of someone who will master her bar routine over the coming weeks, with all the elements there, she just needs to put it together. …
2013 Worlds are almost certainly not going to have the same happy endings as 2009, when superstar Lauren Mitchell had her breakout year. However, Leydin has showed she has the potential to be considered now and in the future. With junior star Alex Eade moving up to the senior division next year and Mitchell hinting of making a return for next year’s Commonwealth Games, a strong Australian team may be on the horizon.
read more – Australian Nationals Day Two Report
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