Author: Rick Mc

I’ve never been a big fan of the Michigan Wolverines and have not followed them all that closely.

Until now.

The Michigan Gymnastics team is on fire this season and are proving themselves to be contenders for the “Super 6” in April.

During the 2012 season, Michigan spent most of their season ranked in the low 20’s with a smaller team than usual. They didn’t have a senior class and they lost two important team members, Natalie Beilstein and Brittnee Martinez due to injuries. But Michigan entered this season with a fresh start and some new team members. They gain 3 former elites in their freshman class and one level 10 standout! …

Triple Twist – Michigan Gymnastics…I’m Impressed.

Click PLAY or watch Katie Zurales’ Bars on YouTube.

Love the old school Deltchev. 🙂

related – Gymnastike interview with Katie Zurales

related – Difference in average score after three weeks – 2013 vs. 2012:

1. Eastern Michigan +3.425 (Ranking difference: +23)
2. Pittsburgh +2.912 (+20)
3. Michigan +2.617 (+18)
4. California +2.400 (+17)
5. Kentucky +1.925 (+14)
6. Minnesota +1.913 (+16)
7. Central Michigan +1.758 (+14)
8. LSU +1.541 (+10)
9. Maryland +1.480 (+10)
10. Kent State +1.425 (+9)

Former U.S. Champ schools the fitness warriors.

Details via Facebook.

Opening day.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

about Unparalleled Movement

(via Micah Marino on Facebook)

When Oklahoma teen Deborah Ede woke up on March 8, she was just three months shy of her 16th birthday and a week away from the 2012 Trampoline and Tumbling Winter Classic in St. Petersburg, Florida. Little did she know that life as she knew it was about to tumble down around her. With one wrong move, the gymnast suffered a devastating spinal cord injury and became a quadriplegic. …

Emergency surgery fused the damaged vertebrae, and her medical file labeled her as a “complete quadriplegic.” …

Just 162 days after “The Crash,” Ede could already walk to the door when a guest arrived, go upstairs to let her parents know, and come back down the stairs again with just one hand on the rail to guide her. She could curl up on the sofa, cross her legs, and look like just about any teenager in her own environment.

The miracle didn’t happen overnight, but day-by-day Ede showed improvement. Her doctors say that she has outpaced almost every other spinal cord injury of her kind that they have witnessed. …

read more on am vans

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At the Windy City Invite.

I saw that linked from Stick It Media:

In their inaugural meet of the season, Michigan (431.30) fared pretty well without Sam Mikulak by outlasting defending NCAA champs Illinois (427.75), Ohio State (427.75), Minnesota (425.75), Iowa (422.35) and UIC (401.60).

Wolverine sophomore all-arounder Adrian de los Angeles (88.40) came out strong out of the gate to show why he’ll be a contender for the NCAA AA title. He and teammate Rohan Sebastian (86.75) were the top two all-arounders, providing a lot of scoring depth for the Wolverines. …

Huge Weekend for Men’s College & Club Gymnastics

Stacey Ervin competes for Michigan.

Robert Stanescu, left, and his wife Ruxandra Stanescu are the owners of Alpha Gymnastics Academy in Windsor.

(JASON KRYK/The Windsor Star)

… A native of Romania, Stanescu and his wife, Ruxandra, opened their club in a former warehouse space earlier this month.

With the help of family and friends, they did all the infrastructure themselves.

“We had to demolish walls inside, we had to dig the pit,” Stanescu said.

“We went a month without electricity. For the first two weeks, we worked only with flashlights and then we got a generator. All the power tools had to be battery operated.”

Such major renovations were all new territory for Ruxandra, also a Romanian-trained gymnast.

“I cut studs, I put up drywall, did framing,” she said. …

read more – New gymnastics club opens in Windsor

Our Tumbl Trak crew dropped in at Olympic Gymnastics Center in Silverdale, Washington.

An excellent gym.

We were testing some prototype equipment.

I love giant Earth balls. They had one stored dangling from the ceiling.

photos

Thanks Greg Mulcher and everyone at OGC for being so welcoming.

Australian Youth Olympic Games:

New Zealand has some rising stars. They proved that point on Friday at the Australian Youth Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia Trampoline events. They claimed a gold, a silver and a bronze medal.

Dylan Schmidt placed second in the Men’s Individual Trampoline event. His final scored 57.185 closely behind China’s Changxin Liu’s 58.065. He is quoted below:

The 16-year-old admitted that he was disappointed with silver, after performing three consistently solid routines, finishing overall with 158.715.

“I’m gutted I came second, but I knew that the Chinese were going to be good. I got a personal best, so I can’t be angry at that,” the Auckland-born gymnast said. …

Trampoline Pundit – New Zealand’s Future

That links to one of Dylan’s routines from AYOGs.

Click PLAY or watch an interview from April 2012 on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/v/10150842921856255

Chris Saccullo:

If there’s one thing NCAA Gymnastics fans can agree upon it’s Vanessa.

Have an amazing season Zam!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

This related video is a montage of interesting UCLA Floor choreography. Plenty of Vanessa.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… 1700 athletes from 30 countries descended on Sydney for the sixth and most successful Australian Youth Olympic Festival from January 16-20, 2013. …

DIVING
Men’s
3m Springboard – Rongquan Chen (CHN)
Synchronised 3m Springboard – China
10m Platform – Ang Gao (CHN)
Synchronised 10m Springboard – China

Women’s
3m Springboard – QulinZheng (CHN)
Synchronised 3m Springboard – China
10m Platform – Xiaohui Huang (CHN)
Synchronised 10m Platform – China

ARTISTIC
Women
Team – China
All Around – Tyesha Mattis (GBR)
Beam – Teal Grindle (GBR)
Floor – Amy Tinkler (GBR)
Uneven Bars – Jie Mei (CHN)
Vault – Tyesha Mathis (GBR)

Liu Zhilin photo by Nadia Boyce — see more pics from AYOG

Men
Team – Great Britain
All Around – Ruoteng Xiao (CHN)
Floor – Dominick Cunningham (GBR) & James Hall (GBR)
Horizontal Bar – Nile Wilson (GBR)
Parallel Bars – Nile Wilson (GBR)
Pommel Horse – Ruoteng Xiao (CHN)
Rings – Courtney Tulloch (GBR)
Vault –Di Wu (CHN)

RHYTHMIC
Team – Australia
All Around – Michaela Whitehouse (AUS)

TRAMP
Men
Individual – Changxin Liu (CHN)
Synchronised – Great Britain

Women
Individual – Yujie Jia (CHN)
Synchronised – New Zealand

2013 AYOF: Sport by sport wrap