Author: Rick Mc

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

GYMNOVA buys Spieth Anderson

That’s what I heard. …

But it’s not exactly true.

The parent company of GYMNOVA — ABEO — from France has purchased the Canadian company SA Sport, formerly known as Spieth Anderson.

Via Gymnastics BC, here’s the official announcement (PDF) from Rick Schell, President of SA Sport.

GYMNOVA is providing equipment for the major Canadian competitions, including Nationals.

But it sounds like the SA Sports brand will continue. Tumbl Trak products will be available through GYMNOVA. And perhaps also through SA.

Leave a comment if you have any more details.

Canadians to Pacific Rim

The Pacific Rim nominative registrations submitted are:

WAG Sr: Lee, Moors, K. Vaculik
WAG Jr: Chant, Pedersen, V. Woo

MAG Sr: Loran, Morgan, Watson
MAG Jr: Paterson, Clay, Stuart

Victoria Moors at American Cup

Couch Gymnast has the rest of the competitors. Minus USA. They are TBA.

Kelly Manjak will be one of the Canadian coaches. A chance to catch up with his many friends from overseas.

I’m planning to be there with a media credential.

Senior Cup team at Gymnix for Canada is Pegg, Dancose-Giambattisto and Hofland

Thanks Grace.

back 1 1/2-in, triff pike, rudi-out

Regular trampoline.

Check it out on Facebook.

The “owner”, Steve Gluckstein, is looking for a name for the trick. I’m liking … “Holy Gluck“.
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Olympic and World Champion Chunlong Lu opens his voluntary routine with a full-in, half-out triffis pike. He does it beautifully, too. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Is he the first to perform it in international competition? In 1980, American Stuart Ransom started his final routine with a front, full-within, half-out pike/puck in the World Trampoline Championships in Brig, Switzerland. Does that count? …

Answer that question on Trampoline Pundit

International Gymnix

by site editor Rick McCharles

ALBERT MINGUILLON I COLOMER:

Montréal has hosted L’International Gymnix since 1991. Always one of the first meets of the gymnastics year, Gymnix usually attracts a good field.

This year gymnasts from 11 countries will compete on March 8-11 in the three different competitions taking place: Gymnix Challenge, Junior Cup and Senior Cup. This year there will be a double gym and competition in a podium. …

Australia’s Lauren Mitchell and the rest of the Australian contenders for the Olympics, as well as Canadian Olympic hopefuls including Christine Lee, Jessica Savona and Mikaela Gerber, will show their upgrades in the senior competition.

Spaniard Silivia Colussi, who lives in Canada and trains at Oakville, will use the competition to prepare for Europeans trials.

The junior category will have the Russian juniors, notably Maria Bondareva …

THE ALL AROUND – Gymnix features strong field

Those aspiring to qualify to the Olympics will be wanting to show they are “in the mix”, either by good results early in the Olympic Year. Or by high start values on certain apparatus.

Jr High Performance gymnast Breanna Franklin is one of four Gymnastics Adventure athletes who will be in Montreal, representing Team Saskatchewan.

I’m back in Saskatchewan, interim Head Coach of Gymnastics Adventure. Brea and her teammates lost their coach mid-season. I’ve stepped in to fill the gap until we hire a full-time replacement.

We’ve convinced a few more new/old coaches to get back out on the Floor, including A-Mazing Adventures co-owner Mary Lou Cooke.

It’s for the kids. 🙂

injustice – Aly’s Bar score

I got some grief for my post titled 80% less SCAm.

There was some SCAm. And the greatest injustice was Aly’s Bar score.

… clearly, international judges like Aly on this event. They obviously see something the rest of us don’t. We thought nothing could top her 12.9 in the Tokyo AA, which by our calculation would have been mid 15.5s if she’d hit. But Scam came very close.

… When that set can get 14.333 from an apparently international judging panel, it’s time to get up and go home. …

Stoi – What We Learned From Scam Part 1
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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Score: D: 5.9 E: 8.433 = 14.333

Those execution judges must be reprimanded for awarding an “impossible score”. Leave a comment if you’ve got a list of who was on that panel.

Tim called it exactly right. Note.

Aly totally impressed me at American Cup. Even on Bars. That set was quite good, for her. Much improved.

But shame shame on the judges for that SCAm. 😦

American Cup redux

Blythe Lawrence LIVE blogged American Cup. Here’s here follow-up post:

… The real story is that the 2012 American Cup couldn’t have gone better for Martha Karolyi and the U.S. women’s program. That they managed to introduce Douglas as a legitimate Olympic medal prospect without taking away from the prestige of 2011 World champion Jordyn Wieber was a brilliant, brilliant strategic maneuver …

Not to mention that Douglas, whose fifth place all-around finish at the 2011 World championships was also unofficial (and, to be fair, she did it in prelims and not all-around finals), puts her in the same place as Olympic champions Nastia Liukin (fifth at the 2007 World Championships), Andreea Raducan (fifth at the 1999 Worlds) and Tatiana Gutsu (fifth at the 1991 Worlds) for Worlds finishes the year before the Olympic Games. …

Examiner – American Cup redux: USA Gymnastics’s big win-win situation

Kyle Shewfelt likes Gabby’s “star power”.