tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
I hadn’t realized that a Gymnastics team had started this awareness campaign. Nice.
All about the Power of Pink!
From humble beginnings as one meet in Tuscaloosa in 2005 to a part of our culture in almost every sport in 2012.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzIzNjA3Mjk5?related=1
Watch more video of Alabama vs Arkansas 2012 The Power of Pink Meet on gymnastike.org
Colin Christ:
After winning PH both days at 2012 Winter Cup we decided to add more difficulty. In this routine he added the side travel (D) in place of a B travel.
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Note former Head Coach Barry Weiner in the background. Now retired, he still comes in to the gym as a volunteer.
Two time Russian Olympic gymnastics champion, Maria Filatova, now age 50, is battling to regain her official Russian passport/citizenship status, so she can travel outside of the United States and return to her home town and home country. …
She currently lives and owns a gym in Rochester, New York and has applied unsuccessfully for a new Russian passport a number of times. Her application has always been rejected with the stated reason being “lack of merit.” There are many things that one might say about Maria Filatova, but none of them could ever involve her displaying a lack of merit. …
Leave a comment on that post if you have any special insight into the Russian passport process.
Maria Filatova … (born July 19, 1961, Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Siberia) is a retired Soviet gymnast who competed at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics.
… She was one of the first female gymnasts to successfully compete a double back somersault on floor in 1975. …
In fact, a new profile by Elizabeth Booth and Vladimir Zaglada credits Maria as one of the greatest innovators all-time, though many of these firsts were seen only in the former Soviet Union.
Maria Filatova’s innovations:
Vault Tsukuhara with full twist (1976 USSR Nationals EF)
Uneven Bars From giant circle, cross hands half turn into straddle
forward somersault to hang on high barBeam Flic-flac layout/two layouts in a row
Beam dismount Flic-flac x 2 (2 feet) – double twist/double back/double pike
Floor Round off-flic flac – double back/double pike/full-in back out (the first on the Soviet team)
… Many people believe that Maria merited all around gold at her final competition, the 1981 World Championships. Having ‘set the table’ for the Soviet team, her qualification scores did not give her the same bonus as her rivals. I prefer, though, to think of Filatova the way she is described in the Russian Gymnastics Hall of Fame : ‘the strongest gymnast of the 1970s’. …
read more on Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – Maria Filatova: Russian Sparrow Made in the USSR
Hers is a fascinating story. A tiny girl from remote Siberia joining the ranks of Tourischeva, Kim, Saadi and Korbut.
Click PLAY or watch her Floor routine 1980 on YouTube.
What are John Macready and John Roethlisberger up to now?
Mudder Fest is one of the few mud runs that has a permanent home, which gives the makers the freedom to create an outstanding course with unique obstacles built into the terrain.
Mountains of hay bails, quad-burning hills and vertical climbs will require some teamwork, perseverance and maybe a little stupidity to make it through. Our “DJ corners” will keep the beat pumpin’ throughout the course and add a little extra inspiration for those who need it. Every step will be different and every jump a surprise …
details – mudderfest.com
These mud races are big right now. Johns had Shawn Johnson wallowing in mud last year. 🙂
Dave Adlard is organizing one in Idaho, as well.
Kudos to Roethlisberger for the great job he did hosting IG Radio today. (Orozco, Mauro, Peszek, Zmeskal, …)
I’m still shocked that FIG approved gymnastics apparatus can fall when just one thing goes wrong?
Why are we still using equipment designed with “single point of failure”? 😦
Vince Smurro was lucky this time.
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The best gymnastics photo shoot since Alphabet Photography.
Brigham Young University’s Dave Broberg (somehow) comes up with the idea of splashing water on the gymnasts to put together their annual poster.
See more photos from that shoot.
Click PLAY or see how it was done on YouTube.
It includes some funny misfires.
Gymnastics Canada now accepting applications for Men’s and Women’s artistic, rhythmic & trampoline coaches for the 2012-2013 Level 4 cycle. That’s a 2yr program eligible only to coaches fully certified L3.
L4 Information Package (PDF)
via email from Denise Gauthier
Victoria Moors of Canada and Ryuzo Sejima of Japan will compete in the AT&T American Cup, replacing Germany’s Nadine Jarosch and Philipp Boy, respectively. Scheduled for March 3 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden …
Florida is #1 on the official Troester rankings this week.
But if you use the Regional Qualifying Score used to determine who competes where in the NCAA “playoffs“, it’s a different story.
Balance Beam Situation explains:
… RQS won’t officially come into play until next week …
For the uninitiated, RQS is calculated by taking a team’s top 6 scores (at least 3 of which must be away), dropping the highest score, and averaging the remaining 5. Anyone who tells you it’s complicated is lying. It took 27 words.
RQS Rankings for February 20th, 2012 (unofficial)
1. Oklahoma – 196.995
2. Florida – 196.925
3. UCLA – 196.725
4. Georgia – 196.660
5. Utah – 196.555
6. Arkansas – 196.545
7. Alabama – 196.525
8. Oregon State – 196.180
9. Nebraska – 196.095
10. Penn State – 195.950
11. LSU – 195.935
12. Ohio State – 195.735
13. Stanford – 195.580
14. Missouri – 195.485
15. Auburn – 195.245
Click through for nuanced analysis of where teams stand looking forward to the post-season.
… Most teams have just three or four regular season meets left. It’s time to start getting those postseason lineups out onto the floor this week and next week …
You’ve seen Yui Fujii’s amazing turns on Beam. (VIDEO)
Here’s a Canadian gymnast Ella Douglas doing 5. Posted by Lawson Hamer from Futures.
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