Author: Rick Mc

I’m extremely happy with my MacBook Air.

But Johnny Ives and crew are trying to tempt me into the new $2,229+ Pro.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… I’ll likely stick with the $1000 Air next time around. 😦

One of my friends (Tenaya West) made this as a good luck video before our national championships. …

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Josh is going to San Jose. Congrats.

Seems more African Americans had big time success at Visa Championships than ever before in history.

Am I right on that?

Anyone seen statistics?

Ekaterina Pirozhkova:

… we would like to draw your kind attention to a series of methodic video manuals on rhythmic gymnastics for coaches-beginners and young sportsmen.

The manuals (have) been produced and published by Progress LLC in cooperation with Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health (Saint Petersburg, Russia) under the supervision of FIG Rhythmic TC.

Here’s a promo clip of the “Flexibility Development” video.

Click PLAY or watch it here.

http://progress-video.ru/plugins/content/jw_allvideos/includes/js/mediaplayer/player.swf

That 53min edit can be downloaded for $5 or watched once for $2.

There are more videos:

– Balance “Ring with Help”
– Strength Development
– Development of quickness, coordination and agility, balance functions and elasticity
– Endurance Development
– Choreography
– Ribbon
– Ball
– Rope
– Hoop
– Clubs

Information in a number of languages available on progress-video.ru

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 15.800

Still the most powerful tumbler in the world, I’d say.

Marta … on whether Aly Raisman has proved herself:

… “[Laughs] Yes, she always wants to prove herself to me! She looks in my eyes before competition and I just nod: ‘Everything is perfect, Aly.’ I really love to have this type of gymnast. She’d give her heart to be good.”

On elegance vs. consistency:

“We take them as we are. Not every single gymnast in the world is a ballerina.” …

Examiner

I recall Bela answering that question long ago about Mary Lou Retton:

She’s a flyer, not a flower.

All those one foot landings and twisting take-offs.

Crazy.

Click PLAY or watch Team Genetrics on Vimeo.

Team Genetrics is hosting Genetrics Gathering – the UK’s largest international tricking gathering – Aug 17-20 in the U.K.

Thanks to Steve Hough of everythingacrobatic.co.uk for the link.

Over-rotated triple twist.

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She plans to be back for Olympic Trials. But will need medical clearance, of course.

Chris quickly put together a tribute to the 2012 Visa Champion. Nice work.

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Aunt Joyce questions whether Jordyn and Team USA are peaking too early, as they have in the past.

I don’t think so. Marta has changed. And the sport has changed.

Marta:

“I think Jordyn is doing well. She has her training plan and her training plan is to get in her best shape by the Trials. And that’s exactly the training plan I suggested to all the coaches. And the coaches, some of them want to push it and get ready earlier, but my suggestion was 90 percent at Championships, 100 percent at Trials.”

Examiner – A few Martha Karolyi-isms following the U.S. Championships

You must peak for trials if you want to make the Olympic Team.

Elastics ensure that the grips cannot slip off the fingers. Janz Gymnastics, Ireland.

I’ve most often used soft yarn. Leave a comment if you have a favourite method.

If you follow this site you know I link to Blythe Lawrence’s Examiner blog more than any other.

But it’s getting increasingly cluttered. That’s not Blythe, but rather the host — Examiner.

In frustration with the pop-up shown, I downloaded a free Google Chrome browser extension called Clearly. (There are others similar.)

With one click, Clearly makes blog posts and articles clean and easy to read. Clearly eliminates all distractions from your online reading experience, and even allows you to browse multi-page articles in one, seamless view.

Connect Clearly to Evernote to clip and sync articles with every computer, phone and tablet you use. …

Here’s how Examiner looks after being interpreted by Clearly.

If these utilities get popular, companies like Examiner will have to come up with less annoying, deceptive advertisements.

Why can’t I pay for a version of Gymnastics Examiner ad free?

If interested for yourself, watch how Clearly works on YouTube.

Note. Clearly doesn’t work on some web pages. Video heavy Aunt Joyce, for example.

P.S. I’ll occasionally click on some Examiner ads, just to support Blythe. Even better, why doesn’t someone hire her away from Examiner? She’s too good for them.

The American Bars guru has been working with Tumbl Trak on yet another of his innovations.

Fun Sticks are an essential element in creating a Forster Handstand Training System, which helps gymnasts learn to self-correct handstand positioning at all skill levels. The Handstand Training System is a great side station for bars …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

“Fun Sticks” start at $17 each.

(via Rec Gymnastics)