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Tom Winter, 68-year-old University of Nebraska classics professor, rose to Internet stardom after a picture of him riding his skateboard, with a briefcase in hand, became a Reddit top post on Thursday. …
He’s already atop of one list of the 30 Best Teachers Of All Time.
PRELIMS:
Women’s All Around
1 Tanaka, Rie 14.200 14.350 13.850 13.800 56.200
2 Minobe, Yu 13.050 14.550 14.900 13.650 56.150
3 Teramoto, Asuka 14.100 13.750 14.100 13.600 55.550
Click PLAY or watch Rie Tanaka’s Floor on YouTube.
Men’s All Around
1 Tanaka, Kazuhito 14.900 14.500 14.800 15.000 16.050 15.450 90.700
2 Tanaka, Yusuke 14.550 14.300 15.100 15.100 15.450 15.500 90.000
3 Kato, Ryohei 15.350 14.200 14.350 15.750 14.850 14.950 89.450… Multiple world champion and Olympic favourite Kohei Uchimura only competed on three appratus: pommel horse (14.400), parallel bars (15.750), and high bar (16.100). …
The depth of the Japanese men’s program is visible with the top 17 scoring 87+ points, although bonus points may account for some of the scores. …
The All Around – Tanakas lead Day 1 at Japanese Championships
Full Twist – Results & Videos: Japanese Nationals Day 1
FINALS:
… Uchimura, the only Japanese gymnast to have already booked his ticket to London, delivered a solid performance to score 92.650 points ahead of Kenya Kobayashi (90.800) and Shogo Nonomura (90.050). …
… In women’s action, Rie Tanaka, who topped the women’s preliminaries on Saturday, captured her first national title with 56.450. Natsumi Sasada was second with 54.450 and Yumi Iizuka was third with 54.400.
… Koko Tsurumi, the 2009 world all-around bronze medalist, failed in her bid for a seventh straight national title, finishing seventh with 52.950.
Japan Times – Uchimura coasts to 5th national gymnastics title
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Is 8.1 correct?
Teng Hai Bin F
Pegan E
Tsolakidis 2 F
Tanaka F
Quintero F
Double salto forward to upperarm E
Li Xiaopeng F
Chirarlo E
Healy from Chirarlo E
Belyavsky F
Qualified to NCAA Championships April 20–22th, Duluth, Georgia:
1. Florida 197.325
2. UCLA 197.225
3. Georgia 197.1
4. Oklahoma 197.025
4. Alabama 197.025
6. Utah 196.925
6. Arkansas 196.925
8. Stanford 196.675
9. Nebraska 196.525
10. Oregon State 196.45
11. Ohio State 196.225
12. LSU, 196.075The perennial contenders — UCLA, Georgia, Utah, Alabama — are all here, as are the upstarts (i.e. schools who have never won an NCAA Championship but look awfully capable of it at times): Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Stanford. …
Examiner.com Regionals redux: 12 women’s teams qualify for NCAA Championships
I mostly followed Saturday’s NCAA Regionals via Twitter and the Balance Beam Situation LIVE blog.
Couch Gymnast correspondent Honey Boo Boo Child must have high speed. She had 4 simultaneous online videos streaming.
Manual on Handstands followed online, too, impressed by video feeds from NC State, Illinois and Washington. Disappointed by Utah, who invented the technology.
If you missed it LIVE, watch Anne’s 2012 NCAA Regionals Recap Video on Gymnastike.
I visited the Great American Gymnastics Express in Missouri, on behalf of TumblTrak. It’s one of the elite gyms of the world, home to USA National Team members Sarah Finnegan, Brenna Dowell and Maddie Desch.
Al Fong offered a one day clinic (PDF) for coaches and gymnasts — at no cost. A wonderful opportunity that we enjoyed greatly.
Al’s hoping to do something similar twice a year: Thanksgiving and Easter. He wants to share what he’s learned. The unique GAGE system.
Al’s 24,000sq ft facility and training system was familiar to me from his blog — Ask Al Fong. (Highly recommended.)
Thanks sincerely to the GAGE coaching staff & gymnasts, generous to welcome us into their home.
On the day following the clinic we were invited to observe normal Team training. It was impressive.
I’ll link to notes, photos and videos from the GAGE clinic, once they are posted online.
related – Gymnastike – Sarah Finnegan: The Dark Horse for the 2012 USA Olympic Team?
Brenna Dowell impressed in training, too. She’s powerful and consistent, critical for the current FIG Code. Al told that Brenna’s far exceeded his original expectations.
That’s the finding of one review of 10 small, admittedly inconclusive research studies into the commonly held belief that we should stretch before and after exercise. As we try to do in our gym.
Authors’ conclusions:
The evidence derived from mainly laboratory-based studies of stretching indicate that muscle stretching does not reduce delayed-onset muscle soreness in young healthy adults.
If you want to read the entire article, download it as a PDF.
Herbert RD, de Noronha M. – Stretching to prevent or reduce muscle soreness after exercise.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD004577. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004577.pub2
Dave Adlard’s has been pointing out this self-evident truth for years. Think about it — how many good athletes do you know who often skip stretching before or after workout?
MANY. Especially after work-out.
Stretching before and after exercise not critical, … though I still do like to have gymnasts stretch end-of-training. I call it “flexibility improvement”.
And I like them to stretch each muscle at least once before training. Emulate this critter.
(via Gym Momentum – 10 FITNESS MYTHS DEBUNKED BY SCIENCE)
Many kids are on holidays.
But not gymnasts.
Easter for us means MORE training.
At Byers, coach Debbie Broderick Rodriguez is on an Easter egg hunt for 200 stuck Beam routines!
Tomorrow I’ll visit Chow’s, home of Shawn Johnson and Gabby Douglas. My first visit to the famed gym in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Click PLAY or watch a Gabby montage on YouTube.
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