Author: Rick Mc

Erika Fasana of Italy, for example.

see more on Arabian Punch Front

Cirque du Soleil – Worlds Away 3D – Official Trailer (HD)

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The James Cameron spectacular won’t get to my city until Christmas. But it will open the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 20th.

… Workout Wednesday … at Aerial Gymnastics in Illinois.

Aerial has a very talented group of guys lead by 2011 and 2012 VIsa Championships qualifier Bobby Baker. With the new rules In 2013, Aerial will have 5 gymnasts competing Junior Elite. …

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike. (some poor audio)

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NzM1NjU2MTUx?related=1

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

Gymnastics judges must guard against “expectation bias”.

For example, being too cautious in scoring routines early in the day. Allowing scores for similar routines to escalate later in the day.

If the best gymnast is first to compete, they should get the highest score. Period.

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Warren & Peter Long sends a link to an interesting study by Jonathan Levav of Stanford and Shai Danziger of Ben-Gurion University.

They found a disturbing pattern to Parole Board decisions in Israel:

… analyzing more than 1,100 decisions over the course of a year. Judges, who would hear the prisoners’ appeals and then get advice from the other members of the board, approved parole in about a third of the cases, but the probability of being paroled fluctuated wildly throughout the day.

Prisoners who appeared early in the morning received parole about 70 percent of the time, while those who appeared late in the day were paroled less than 10 percent of the time. …

read more – NY Times – Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?

The implication for judges is that they would be less likely to give “benefit of the doubt” later in the day.

I don’t see that happening in our world. Our problem is scores unfairly escalating.

2007 & 2012

Christine Peng Peng Lee is now at UCLA, training & recovering from her knee surgery last May.

Update from Carol-Angela Orchard:

Peng (then and now) images were created by Megan Douglas, parent of Ella Douglas, a Sport Seneca gymnast. (Ella is now at Futures with former Sport Seneca Coaches Lawson Hamer & Lisa Cowan.)

It comes from this collage.

Peng is back together with her Seneca teammate Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, a student coach for her 5th year at UCLA.

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Here’s a photo on Facebook of the 2013 UCLA Gymnastics team.

The Bruins are hosting Nationals. I’ll be there for sure. 🙂

(Peng photo via RAISTAFINA FEVER)

Important public service announcement.

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It’s easy to make the pledge via ItCanWait.com

Inspired by a visit from Carol-Angela Orchard, coach Sally Batley put together a unique video montage of developmental kids working basics.

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That’s Renmore Gymnastics, Galway, Ireland.

Marisa discovered the 2004 Olympic Floor Champion featured in her Grade 10 math text book.

Kyle hadn’t known he was in it. 🙂

Christchurch School of Gymnastics is looking to employ a Senior Women’s Gymnastics Coach. The successful applicant will have GymSports New Zealand WAG Level 3 Coaching Qualification or international equivalent qualifications.

The position is full time; coaching senior WAG gymnasts is the major role and includes development work in our junior and talent programme.

The position start is negotiable for the right person.

Please forward your CV and a covering letter to avril (a) chchgymnastics.co.nz

Strong club. Great opportunity for someone looking to coach internationally. They have strong up-and-coming Juniors. Getting a work visa for New Zealand is easy compared with most other nations.

Good technique on these shoulder rolls. 🙂

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Thanks Mary.