Author: Rick Mc

I just love the way this girl moves. Her Floor is like a throwback to the great Soviet era.

Click PLAY or watch her training on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=396380580458522

Choreographer Rodica Demetrescu, former Romanian Rhythmic gymnast and choreographer of the Romanian team in 1992. She’s Francesca Deagostini’s coach.

Grazie Giu.

Uncle Tim’s posted … more videos. Too many more.

For example, check the Temple team featuring coach Fred Turoff with umbrella.

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CONGRATS to Lauren Ramirez of Chandler, Ariz./Gold Medal Gymnastics, who qualified at the Arizona Sunrays Classic Rock Invitational.

The field is now complete for the 2013 Nastia Liukin Cup, scheduled for March 1 at 7 p.m. at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass. This past weekend, the last five invitational competitions in the Nastia Liukin Cup Series were held and qualified the remaining eight gymnasts to the Nastia Liukin Cup. …

USAG

Lauren is coached by Amanda Borden-Cochran, a member of the 1996 gold-medal winning United States Olympic Team.

related – After Utah and Washington tied at 195.975, coaches David McCreary (Washington) and Greg Marsden (Utah) flew down to Phoenix for recruiting.

Cute.

Upcoming competition in the Netherlands.

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GymPOWER TV is the video channel for Dutch site GymPOWER.nl.

related – Coach Gerrit Beltman, most recently coaching at Calgary Gymnastics Centre in Canada, posted an apology, here translated:

AMSTERDAM – Coach Gerrit Beltman has … openly apologized to his former pupils of his training in the nineties.

“I was at that time a nasty and unpleasant man,” wrote Beltman response to the book and an interview with former gymnasts Simone Heitinga and Stasja Köhler, going about their negative experiences with the trainer told. “I am deeply ashamed of my behavior at the time. ” …

I recall well the tough coaching culture worldwide in the 1990s. Things are much better today.

Nope.

Kovacs Kolman Kolman. Easy.

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(via Adam Paterson on Facebook)

WOW.

This should be the 2016 Code baseline. Anyone less Artistic than Enus, gets deducted.

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related – Triple Twist – Meet Rising Star-Enus Mariani:

Triple Twist: Do you have any idols? If so, who are they and why do they inspire you?

Enus: I don’t have a real idol. … I like American gymnasts because of their power and control, and Russians because of their elegance. Being able to mix these things would be awesome. …

(via Beam Queen)

The Penn State women’s gymnastics team posted a season-high score of 196.700 in a 197.375-196.700 loss to the third-ranked Michigan Wolverines on Saturday afternoon in Cliff Kleen Arena. The team score is the highest for Penn State since March 4, 2011. Additionally, it is the highest road score Penn State has posted since 2007.

“We finally put together a dual meet with routines that met our full potential,” said head coach Jeff Thompson. …

Go PSU

Is this the Michigan Team that will take Blue to their first NCAA Championship?

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related – Examiner – Women’s gymnastics: Why have you been ignoring Michigan?

Born 2002. And tiny for her age.

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(via GIMSPOR on Facebook)

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… I’ze still confuzed.