Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

U.S. Juniors montage

Team USA has more depth than any other nation. They are going to be tough to beat this quadrennial.

From Nationals 2012.

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Alexis Beucler
Amanda Huang
Amelia Hundley
Arianna Guerra
Ashley Foss
Ashton Kim
Bailie Key
Jessica Wang
Katelyn Ohashi
Lacy Dagan
Lauren Hernandez
Lexie Priessman
Madison Desch
Maggie Nichols
Megan Skaggs
Meredith Sylvia
Nia Dennis
Nicole Lehrmann
Peyton Ernst
Polina Shchennikova
Shannon McNatt
Simone Biles
Veronica Hults

@Ashley_Flipper

Romanian Bars?

Now that they’ve started wearing grips, will that apparatus improve?

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That’s Andreea Iridon, the Romanian girl who did 115 presses in series.

(via Couch Gymnast – Romanian Junior Nationals: All Around Results )

how many calories McDonald’s?

Good move.

McDonald’s USA announced that they will be adding calorie information on restaurant and drive-thru menus nationwide. Local Dallas McDonald’s Owner/Operator, Jeff Smith said, “At McDonald’s, we recognize customers want to know more about the nutrition content of the food and beverages they order.” …

Hardbody

It was being done at some locations already.

Banning junk food won’t work. Taxing fat and sugar processors might help. Keeping it out of schools and children’s fitness facilities might help. Education might help.

… I’m not optimistic.

Especially on Halloween.

Alberta Gymnastics Congress

Best write-up I’ve seen on the first annual. 🙂

Tony Retrosi:

… It really was a fantastic conference. Well thought out, well organized, and pretty well attended. What made the biggest impression on me was the enthusiasm of the coaches that were in attendance. Following one of my lectures I had so many questions that I had to move out into the hallway to answer them to let the next speaker into the room. Out in the hallway BETH GARDNER was running a preschool warm up with 20 coaches rolling around and doing a crab walk! I took “my group” down to the hotel lobby (which had a very nice fireplace) and continued our discussion for about 45 minutes. …


Beth Gardner, Christophe Lambert, Tony, Dave Ross

read more on Gym Momentum

Two more much appreciated American clinicians: Steve Greeley and Frank Sahlein.

tour jeté half

… Kathryn Geddert, coach of World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist Jordyn Wieber from Twistars Gymnastics …

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzgyNjYwMjg5?related=1

Watch more video of Technique Tuesday on gymnastike.org

Elite Gymnastics. Space Oddity

Brigid Couch Gymnast McCarthy on Facebook:

… a space-y Montage (not just because it is Natalie Merchant singing ‘Space Oddity’) …

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“Ozero Krugloye” (Round Lake)

… just 20 miles off the city of Moscow. ‘Ozero Krugloye’, situated on a plot of 96,000 square meters and surrounded by a woodland park, serves as a training base for the swimming, fencing and gymnastics national teams. …

One of the mandatory parts of the training program on “Ozero Krugloye” is massage. Massages are made to all athletes every night, plus an extra one during a break in-between the training. As you can imagine the national team is never far away from the massage table. …

read more – TuneGym – Russian Gymnastics Training Center – A look inside ‘Ozero Krugloye’

Click PLAY or get a glimpse on YouTube. (Russian)

Better days for Alexandrov.

$50,000 gymnast photos

A British photographer who captures elite athletes at their moment of peak perfection has won the Grange Prize, the annual $50,000 award for photography given by Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario. …

CBC

Jo Longhurst first came to prominence with The Refusal, a body of work for which she spent a number of years photographing Whippets, British show dogs bred to ideal standards. This captivating examination of physical perfection led to her most recent series, Other Spaces, which explores the physical and emotional experiences of elite gymnasts. …

GRANGE prize

Click PLAY or watch a profile of her on YouTube

Thanks Dale. But I think I might prefer the dog pics. 🙂

I hope Grace Chiu doesn’t see those photos.