Author: Rick Mc

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

Shewfelt: CHN v AUSSIE v CAN

The highlight session goes tonight at the University of Calgary. A friendly Sr. Team Invite.

CHINA
Bo Wang
Xiaodong Zhu
Xuezhang Chen
Yang Zhang

AUSTRALIA
Broday Jai Hennessey
Joshua Jefferis
Sam Offord
Thomas Pichler

CANADA
Anderson Loran
Jackson Payne
Kevin Lytwyn
Nathan Gafuik

Brandon O’Neill competing as an independent.

The women’s competition is well underway. Girls love this meet.

One of the many nice touches are tweet outs to individual athletes:


@ShewfeltGymFest Open Bars Champion from P3 Novice Emma Shewfelt of Mountain Shadows wins a new pair of grips! #ksgf2012

kyleshewfeltgymfest.com

GBR Olympic uniforms

GymNiceTic:

Stella McCartney designed all of Great Britain`s uniforms for this years Olympic Games. …:

How does this look to you?

related – Examiner – British athletes discuss 2012 Olympic ‘kit’

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Includes Louis Smith.

Cottbus Cup – day 1

The first day of qualifications got underway Thursday at the Cottbus Challenger Cup in Cottbus, Germany, with the men competing on floor, pommel horse, and rings, and the women on vault and uneven bars. Originally scheduled for one day, the large field necessitated the addition of a second day of qualifying.


VAULT
1. Maksiuta, Valeriia ISR 14,025
2. Rogers, Brittany CAN 13,937
3. Menendez Gonzalez, Claudia ESP 13,912
4. Pegg, Dominique CAN 13,812

BARS
1. He, Kexin CHN 7,1 8,125 15,225
2. Van Gerner, Celine NED 6,0 8,125 14,125
3. Kononenko, Nataliya UKR 6,4 7,625 14,025

FLOOR
1. Boy, Philipp GER 6,2 9,050 15,250
2, Gonzalez Sepulveda, Enrique Tomas CHI 6,6 8,575 0,1 15,075
3. Whitlock, Max GBR 6,5 8,525 0,1 14,925

POMMEL
1. Keatings, Daniel GBR 6,7 8,800 15,500
2. Whitlock, Max GBR 6,6 8,750 15,350
3. Bertoncelj, Saso SLO 6,0 9,300 15,300
4. Likhovitskiy, Andrey BLR 6,4 8,900 15,300

RINGS
1. Nabarrete Zanetti, Arthur BRA 6,5 9,175 15,675
2. Chen, Yibing CHN 6,8 8,825 15,625
3. Van Gelder, Lambertus NED 6,4 8,900 15,300

Chen Yibing was bested on Rings! … How about that.

That’s from ALBERT on TAA – Cottbus Challenge Cup: Qualification Results Day 1

GAGE, Chows, Oakville

by site editor Rick McCharles

Easter road trip to 3 of the top elite gyms in the world as an Ambassador for Tumbl Trak.

First up – Al Fong‘s April 6th and 7th FREE coaching clinic (FULL) at GAGE.

April 9th I’ll stop by to visit Chow at Chow’s to interview him about his famously positive coaching style. Does he ever stop smiling?

Chow loves Tumbl Trak equipment and is keen to test some prototype equipment.

Finally, April 10-11, I’ll be visiting my friends at Oakville in Toronto. Interviews and more equipment testing.

I’ll link to those photos, videos and notes once they are posted online.

Mustafina – upgrades Bars

In the Team competition, Aliya increased the difficulty of her Bars set. And hit. Especially the last handstand. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The Russian Championships continued today in Penza, emulating the schedule of the European Championships, with the second day of competition dedicated to the senior team final, to get gymnasts ready for the feel of the competition. …

THE ALL AROUND – Moscow wins Senior Team title at Russian Championships

That post has notes and video links from the LIVE feed.

Grishina had a fall on Beam, again.

Dieter Hoffman in Scotland

Men’s National Coach Jim Holt brought in the man whom I often call the second most successful coach in gymnastics history. (After Leonid Arkaev)

The Scottish Men’s Gymnastics National squad was provided a 4-day “immersion” in gymnastics systems and instructions by gymnastics legend Dieter Hoffman this week.

Hoffman, former head coach of both German Democratic Republic (DDR) men’s and women’s teams and now a consultant and lecturer for the FIG spent 4 days in Glasgow exposing 9 high-performance coaches and 19 squad gymnasts to his philosophies, training systems, technical methods, and inspiring “gymnastics world view”.

Holt and Hoffman far left

stick it like Shewfelt

Double double. Victoria Moors at Pacific Rim.

That .gif via Honey Boo Boo Child (new name) on Tumblr.

The Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival begins today. Good luck to all those in Calgary.

beautiful Vasiliki

Vasiliki Millousi (b. May 4, 1984 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek Artistic gymnast. …

She represented Greece at the Olympic Games in 2000. …

… She also won the beam final, at 2012 artistic Gymnastics Olympic Test Event …

Here’s a glimpse into 27yr-old Vasiliki’s training for London.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s from her official YouTube channel.

If you’re a fan, follow via her many social media links.

related – Couch Gymnast – Ten Questions with Vasiliki Millousi (Feb 2012)

(via gymnicetic)