Florida #1 this week

GymInfo – Top 25 Teams

27 February 2012 – by Regional Qualifying Average

1 Florida 197.195
2 Oklahoma 197.145
3 UCLA 197.025
4 Georgia 196.830
5 Alabama 196.730
6 Nebraska 196.585
7 Utah 196.555
8 Arkansas 196.545
9 Oregon State 196.250
10 L.S.U. 196.245
11 Penn State 195.950
12 Stanford 195.895

See the full list.

Photo Gallery: Georgia vs. Florida

storing Bar rails

Michele Soucy from Campia Gymnastics:

… small gym is jam packed with equipment and one of our volunteer dads, Rod Oldford, came up with this neat idea for storing bar rails. Just PVC pipe!

CAN @ USA MAG Camp

Canadian Jr National MAG Coach Markos Baikas:

… a few pictures from the training camp with the U.S. Juniors in Colorado Springs, Feb 20 -26. …

Great experience for the athletes and coaches. And a great welcome from USA Gymnastics.

The American Juniors are bloody good.

UCLA throws down – 198.050

That’s a VERY HIGH number.

Couch Gymnast:

… UCLA, who have been floundering a little this season have just knocked out a massive score of 198.050 against Arizona State. …

According to our college writer, Lauren Hopkins, the scoring looked to be fair and well-deserved in what was simply a spectacular performance by the star-studded team. …

Comeback kid Vanessa Zamarripa killed the all around with a final score of 39.625, chased by Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs with a 39.575. …

UCLA Earns Mammoth Score

If Vanessa’s 100% ready come Championships, UCLA just might be the narrow favourites to win another team title.

On the other hand, UCLA’s Sam Peszek said recently that she feels the top 6 Team that puts everything together on THE DAY will win in 2012. There are a lot of contenders this season.

Bailey Gardner 10.0 Vault

Twistars level 10 gymnast Bailey Gardner scored a perfect 10.00 on vault in the final rotation of the 2012 Legendz Classic meet to help her team edge Team Patterson for the gold medal.

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

Watch more video of Kim Zmeskal’s Texas Prime – Legendz Classic 2012 on gymnastike.org

Great West Gym Fest Olympians

Thanks Mohini Bhardwaj, Terin Humphrey, Joyce Tanac-Schroeder, Daniela Silivas and Kyle Shewfelt for inspiring the kids at our meet!

Pittsburg girls with Olympians

Great West Gym Fest, Idaho

Add these dates to your calendar ยป Feb 22-24, 2013

gymnastics “wall”

I can’t coach without wall space. Every day, every gymnast needs to do my wall complex just after warm-ups. If you’ve got problems with handstand, youโ€™ve got problems with gymnastics.

At Eastside Gymnastics Academy in Woodinville, WA, they’ve got an ideal wall with floor bars at the ready.

Photo – Diana Hughes from Tumbl Trak. And thanks to coach Ben Carson for inviting us.

odd Japanese Gymnastics ad

gedatzeni:

I stumbled across this advertisement on Fuji TV …

The original video did not have sound for some strange reason, so I decided to put some new music on instead. I hope you all find it as amusing as I did!

I love the characters so much that I even made the FX (Yukazo) my wallpaper a few months ago! …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (Leave comments on YouTube.)

Nebraska – breaking the rules

Dan Kendig again competed 5 all-arounders, something unheard of in Collegiate gymnastics … except in case of emergency.

What if one of your AA girls is injured or ill?

How is that working out for him?

… The No. 9 Nebraska women’s gymnastics team posted the ninth-highest away meet score in school history and captured three event titles in its 197.000-196.300 upset of the No. 7 Arkansas Razorbacks on Friday night in Fayetteville, Ark. The Huskers improved to 10-1 on the season and have now defeated two top-10 opponents on the road. …


“This is probably the most proud I’ve been of this team all season,” Head Coach Dan Kendig said after the meet. “We came into, I’m not going to say a hostile environment, but they had a great crowd. They’re (Arkansas) a great team and we were in a battle today. …

Clutch Beam Performance Leads NU Past No. 7 Arkansas

They host Florida March 4th. The biggest test yet. ๐Ÿ™‚