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Paul Hamm training for 2012
Though the Hamm blog is down, 2004 Olympic Champion Paul Hamm is still hoping to contend for 2012.
… Hamm has kept a low profile since being arrested in Upper Arlington, Ohio, last summer on charges of kicking a cab driver, damaging a cab window and refusing to pay a $23 fare.
Idiot. … Did I say that out loud?
Andy Thornton has compiled Paul’s potential routines based mostly on Facebook video clips. Andy thinks he’s still in the mix for the USA team, especially for Pommel Horse.
He’s a long shot, I’d say. But don’t count Paul out. Not yet.
There’s a chance that he might even make an appearance at Winter Cup in February. I’d love to see him compete a couple of apparatus there.
Here’s Paul’s Facebook Wall. Not everyone is able to watch those video clips, be warned.
Raisman looking good
Gymnastike visited Brestyan’s to check in with USA Gymnastics 2012 olympic team hopeful Aly Raisman. The 17-year-old gymnast is coming off a fantastic 2011 season, leading team USA to the World Championships gold medal and winning an individual bronze medal on floor. Raisman has even bigger skills and high aspirations for 2012. She talks about her upgrades, her decision to turn professional, and training to make the Olympic team.
Click PLAY or watch the interview and training footage on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODg1NTc1Mzk2?related=1
Watch more video of Brestyan’s Gymnastics on gymnastike.org
She’s planning on Amanar. Near the end of the video she shows an excellent double Arabian punch layout.
Olympic dreams dashed
It’s that time in the quadrennial when sad stories like this appear:
Examiner – Israeli requirement puts Olympics in jeopardy for Maksyuta, Aronovich
Telegraph – London 2012 Olympics: qualification dream over for Great Britain’s rhythmic gymnastics group
Even if FIG approves your athlete for Olympics, most nations have additional requirements. “Evidence that the athlete will finish top half of the field”, for example.
In the case of GBR Rhythmic, it’s British Gymnastics that is refusing to nominate the team to the British Olympic Association.
I was involved in one of these dramas in 1999, the Canadian Olympic Committee initially unwilling to approve Kyle Shewfelt for the 2000 Olympics. (He was the youngest competitor.)
Kyle nearly qualified for Finals in Sydney and went on to be the most successful Canadian in history. It’s examples like this that coaches should cite as a reason to approve athletes / teams for Olympics.
It’s crazy that the host nation won’t approve their Rhythmics Team. Imagine what kind of boost the sport would have in the U.K. with all that Olympic exposure, regardless of result.
Leave a comment if you know of other athletes who made the Olympic qualification standard, but were denied participation by their own nation.
Australian Gymnastics Championships
May 21st – June 12th, 2012.
Gymnastics fans are in for a treat this year, with the 2012 MG, WG, RG, TRP & ACR National Championships all combined into one massive event at Sydney Olympic Park.
Having qualified a full team at the 2011 Artistic World Championships, Australia will look to select a full women’s team to compete at the Games. …
GA – 2012 National Championships to Play a Big Role in Olympic Selection
Anyone else heard the rumour that Peggy Liddick was considering NCAA coaching opportunities after this cycle?
gymnastics gifs
The gymnasticsgifs Tumbl features animations like this …
Check it out – gymnasticsgifs.tumblr.com
(via @GymnasticsZone)
Reebok CrossFit ad
introducing ‘tap swing’
Standard progressions. Bar and Rings.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Rings are easier than the Bar for beginners. Easiest of all is swinging rings. 🙂
That’s from a longer Tony tutorial – Drills for Giants on Uneven Bars
Sarah Burke’s legacy
Alyssa Roenigk:
Sarah Burke was a fighter.
I believe that is how she would have wanted to be remembered; she would not want to be remembered simply by a list (although it would be a very long one) of contest wins, groundbreaking halfpipe tricks and “firsts” by a woman. Those are details. Sarah’s life was about the bigger moments, about so much more than being the best woman in the sport of freeskiing. …
… To Sarah, injuries were footnotes.
It was the fight that mattered most. So when the International Olympic Committee announced last year it would add halfpipe and slopestyle skiing to the 2014 Winter Games, no one was prouder to have the opportunity to represent her country than Burke. And not simply because she would be the odds-on favorite to win in the halfpipe, but because she knew how hard a fight it had been to get there. When athletes from around the world, many of them her friends, compete in those inaugural competitions, they will do so knowing Sarah had much to do with winning that fight. …
read more on ESPN W – Remembering Sarah Burke …
Click PLAY or watch it on ESPN.
WorkOut: A Documentary {trailer}
Paul Sheriff:
Workout: A Documentary … examines the formation of the Blue Mound Gymnastics Club in the early 1960’s in Blue Mound, Illinois.
The back bone of the film is the exceptional gymnastic career of the filmmaker’s sister, Hali Sheriff and the dynamic driving force of his mother/ gymnastics coach, Ginny Sheriff.
… While returning from a gymnastics exhibition in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1966, both Hali and her mother were killed in a tragic plane crash along with Hali’s father, the Reverend Harold Sheriff, who was piloting the plane. Paul was ten years old.
Juxtaposed with this will be the filmmaker’s current life 42 years later. Through video diary, archive footage, and location interviews, the film will explore the effects and influence of this traumatic event on the filmmaker and immediate surviving members of the family, teammates and friends. Within this framework, the film also thematically treats and critically examines loss, and the changing roles and relationships within the family unit. The documentary also addresses athletic competition as a philosophy of life, with its effects on the individual athlete. …
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.
To find out more, go to the YouTube page comments. Or to the official website. Paul is still trying to raise funds to complete the planned documentary.
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