Author: Rick Mc

… Development Team Coordinator Valeri Liukin led the women’s May developmental camp this past week at the USA Gymnastics National Training Center at the Karolyi Ranch …

… 40 gymnasts, many of who recently finished their Junior Olympic competitive season at the Level 9 Eastern/Western Championships and the Level 10 Junior Olympic National Championships. Athletes participated in two-a-day workouts …

Coaches lectures … including Liukin, Tammy Biggs, Antonia Markova, Luminita Garcy, Neil Resnick, Todd Gardiner, Ivan Ivanov and Dan Baker.

Chellsie Memmel, who is now an International Gymnastics Federation rated brevet judge, helped with verification of skills and combinations and routine review. …

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more photos from the May Women’s Developmental Camp

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(via Full Twist – Swedish National Championships)

Meet Rocky. 🙂

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(via Tkatchif-your-lucky)

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(via WOGymnastike)

Damien Walters and Tim Shieff are back in the final episode of their YouTube show season.

… they explore an abandoned building, do some extreme stretching and do some more football tennis! …

Some outtakes. 🙂

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RRG:

2000 Olympic champion, 12-time Olympic medal winner, Alexei Nemov, now appears in a (no doubt, lucrative) advertisement for Mercedes sports cars, with ice skater Evgenyi Plushchenko.

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Beautiful Gymnastics did some analysis on the The State of China concluding:

… China are in desperate need of mini Cheng Fei’s as they’re still lacking in the power event categories, with an overemphasis instead on their pet events.

They do have springy powerful looking young girls like Wang Yan and Liu Tingting but still crying out for depth in the power department …

Shang Chunsong

That .gif is one of many posts on Tumbl tagged Shang Chunsong.

related – Shang Chunsong – Floor / Beam from 2012 Asian Championships

A top nation like China needs all-arounders like Shang Chunsong. They can’t afford to carry too many specialists. Perhaps not even one.

Unless she was as good as Cheng Fei on Floor and Vault.

A girl’s parent volunteer at a competition started an interesting thread on Chalk Bucket:

… I must comment on how amazing the atmosphere was on that side. Coaches dialoguing with the judges during the meet, getting opinions and looking at score sheets and everyone was okay with that.

All the teams seem like they are one big happy family and not that they are not serious about their gymnastics, but there was just such a light fun air about the whole thing it was contagious. …

Question why do you think it seems so much more fun for them and so serious on the women’s side?

I did scorekeeping on that side as well and the judges barely talked to each other and no way would a coach come over to look at the score sheets and get feedback on the athletes warm up where I was. …

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Ya. … What is it with that? 🙂

At Canadian Nationals 2012 I was a WAG coach. In 2013 I’m a MAG coach.

I’ll report on the differences once the chalk dust has settled.

Cool.

Aerobic gymnasts wearing street clothes in a warehouse.

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Examiner:

… The French Gymnastics Federation commissioned this clip introducing the art of Aerobic gymnastics in advance of hosting the 2013 European Championships in Arques in November.

As a junior elite, Melissa Metcalf of Desert Devils tied for eighth on uneven bars at the 2008 Visa Championships. Injuries kept her out of competitions the following couple of years and she ultimately returned to level 10 …

Great amplitude on transfer low to high.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODg2NzA5NTMx?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of JO Nationals 2013 on gymnastike.org