the great Vietnamese Vaulter

No, not Ha Thanh, the other great Vietnamese Vaulter. 🙂

Gymnast #391:

Wow, check out Vietnam’s Nguyen Ha Thanh‘s Melissanidis Piked (Yurchenko 2/1 piked) vault from … Ostrava World Cup.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

He took the Bronze on Vault at the 2012 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships. And Silver on Parallel Bars.

Any relation to Marcel Nguyen?

Elizabeth Price – TOUCH THE SKY

Chris Saccullo:

Congratulations Ebee on your 1st place AA performance at Stuttgart, keep touching the sky!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Philipp Boy retires

Boy, 25, announced his retirement at this weekend’s Stuttgart World Cup, the competition where he took a bad fall from high bar in 2011 that seemed to shadow his gymnastics from there on out. Nonetheless, as one of the most charming and charismatic performers from the past quad, it’s a shame to see the two time World all-around silver medallist take his leave from the sport. …

Examiner

official website

l0ndoncallsmestranger:

OMG I’M CRYING THE BOYS ARE ALL WEARING SHIRTS SAYING: ALL IN FOR PHILIPP

Stuttgart: Nguyen, Purvis, Belyavskiy

Stuttgart World Cup Men’s All Around Final Results:

1. Nguyen, Marcel (GER) – 90,232
2. Purvis, Daniel (GBR) – 89,397
3. Belyavskiy, David (RUS) – 89,298
4. Tanaka, Kazuhito (JPN) – 89,097
5. Leyva, Danell (USA) – 88,364
6. Gonzalez, Fabian (ESP) – 87,498
7. Thomas, Kristian (GBR) – 87,365

Click PLAY or watch Kristian Thomas GBR | Yurchenko double pike on YouTube.

when gymnasts quit

Laura Amann is a freelance writer, mother of 4 kids. She has a guest post on the Sports Girls Play blog.

My days of gymnastics are over. So are my long hours at the gym. My nervousness and anxiety. It’s all in the past. No more ponytails woven with ribbons, no more glitter spray, no more bleacher analysis. My daughter has left the sport.

For years, Caroline competed on a gymnastics team and she adored everything about it. Four days a week, we drove the ½ hour back and forth to the gym so that she could practice 15 hours a week, year-round. I volunteered, I chatted with the parents, I watched and learned and bit my nails. The parents became my friends, the meets became a social time.

Eventually after three years of this schedule, the complaints began: the coaches were too hard, she had a headache, she was tired, she had too much homework. Her message read loud and clear: she was burnt out at the age of 11. …

The End of an Era: When a Child Abandons a Sport

That’s a good read for every coach.

I’ll bet Caroline grows up to be more successful and healthy than her non-gymnast classmates. But it’s not easy for a young girl to appreciate that now.

The sport, the system and the coaches share responsibility for the very large number of girls who go through this trauma. We really do build up expectations too high for too many children.

Play it Forward – Rec Gym

Dar wants underprivileged kids to do Gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She’s the Rec guru behind GymtasticsGymTools.

(via Rec Gymnastics)

Denis Vachon Pan Ams DMT

After prelims, Canadian Denis Vachon leads Senior Men’s prelims in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico. 230 Competitors are registered from U.S., Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Mexico

Click PLAY or watch his first pass on YouTube.

Trampoline sports are required to kick out at vertical before landing. (VIDEO)

Senior preliminaries are scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 1, with the finals on Dec. 2. …

USAG

related – Canadians dominate at Pan Am trampoline and tumbling championships

Stuttgart – Elizabeth Price 58,098

AA Competition DTB Cup Stuttgart:

1. Price, Elizabeth (USA) – 58,098
2. Seitz, Elisabeth (GER) – 55,566
3. Steingruber, Giulia (SUI) – 55,565

4. Bui, Kim (GER) – 55,165
5. Ferrari, Vanessa (ITA) – 54,065
6. Tunney, Rebecca (GBR) – 53,832

Click PLAY or watch her new Bars on YouTube. (14.933)

Click PLAY or watch her Amanar on YouTube.

Elizabeth had some deductions on Floor and Beam, but no falls.

Details by Brigid on Couch GymnastDTB Cup Stuttgart Women’s AA: How it Went Down

related – Eric of Gymnet.org reports for Examiner: Behind the scenes at the Stuttgart World Cup!

Jr Noémi Mákra (HUN)

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.

15-year-old Noémi Mákra is arguably the best gymnast from Hungary since the Henrietta Onodi, one of the gymnastics superstars of the nineties. She turns senior in 2013 so look for her in Antwerp. …

She has very good execution. While she doesn’t do the highest difficulty, her E scores are usually very high. … At a recent Olympic Hopes Cup in the Czech Republic, she won the all around competition with a 55.400 and earned E scores in the 9s on both vault and bars. …

details on Couch Gymnast

That links to more TCG Junior Watch Profiles:

Darcy Norman (AUS)
Pilar Rubagotti (ITA)
Lou Nina (CHI)
Charlotte Sullivan (NZL)
Chantysha Netteb (NED)
Maelys Plessis (FRA)
Raisa Batyrova (RUS)
Kim Janas (GER)
Maria Kharenkova (RUS)
Angel Romaeo (GBR/WALES)
Lara Mori (ITA)
Polina Schennikova (USA)
Shallon Olsen (CAN)