Alex Tighe put together a Temple pre-season promo video with a great theme: underdogs will prove themselves this season.
He could have used the Rocky theme as Temple is in Philadelphia.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Good luck Owls.
Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
Winter Youth Olympic Games
Ben Ferguson (USA) is triumphant in a spectacular final! – Innsbruck 2012 Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
See more videos on the innsbruck2012 YouTube channel.
NCAA rankings Jan 16, 2012
Based on Troester.com GymInfo.
The first rankings for the 2012 NCAA Gymnastics season are out! Many teams around the country opened their season this past weekend. A few top teams like Utah, Arkansas, UCLA, Georgia, and Oklahoma have competed twice. …
1 Nebraska
2 Utah
3 Arkansas
4 Oregon State
5. Alabama
6 Georgia
7 UCLA
8 Florida
9 Penn State
10 Oklahoma
11 Michigan
12 Ohio State
As much as I’d like to congratulate Dan Kendig and the Nebraska team, it’s too early to put much stock into this ranking. But many are very excited about one new Cornhusker …
… Nebraska freshman Jessie DeZiel broke the freshman all-around record for a season-opening meet with a 39.575. DeZiel was just .250 off the Husker all-around record of 39.825 set by Richelle Simpson in 2003. DeZiel also won the floor exercise with a 9.925.
“She warmed up just OK, and kind of halfway did some things, but when the flag went up, she was all business,” Kendig said. “She is that talented, and I am sure hoping she can stay that way.”
DeZiel competed in the Pan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, helping the American team to the gold medal. …
Recall that Richelle Simpson was an NCAA AA Champion.
One more bizarre stat. Nebraska right now has the TOP 4 AA gymnasts. That must be a first.
They competed only 7 gymnasts, a feat called by Balance Beam Situation both impressive and unsustainable.
beginner girls competition Ireland
I attended Renmore Gymnastics Level 1 Regionals Qualifier. This is the first level for beginner girls in Ireland, competition held only for Floor and Vault.
FUN is highest priority.
Scoring was done with pencil and paper. Gymnasts flashed the scores manually. No computer errors at this competition!
Spain leads Rhythmic Group
Group is my favourite of the Rhythmic disciplines. Of the teams competing the Olympic Test Meet London, Spain finished prelims with the highest score.
Rhythmic Gymnastics. Spain, 5 Balls – : 26.900 (Difficulty : 9.000, Artistic : 9.000, Execution : 8.900). Rank : 1
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Here’s the FIG wrap-up post for day 1 competition – Rhythmic gymnasts sparkle at Greenwich. It has results and links to more photos / videos.
Uchimura – Liukin
Perhaps he’s growing tired of losing Horizontal Bar to Chinese gymnasts doing higher start value, but (in reality) less difficulty.
Our World Champion is connecting Liukin (1/1 twisting layout Tkachev) in combination from a D-part. With perfect form.
Watch it on YouTube.
If that’s not a big enough bump to his start value, maybe he’ll add a Shaham (kovacs 1 1/2) (VIDEO).
UGLY kiss and cry couch
The London Test Meet has a kiss and cry area. I didn’t hear anybody in the Gymnastics world complain.
Until @KateBamberPA tweeted …
Is this the ugliest sofa in world sport? #rhythmic #gymnastics #FIGTest12
via @BBCSport_Ollie
perfect 10 Zamarripa is back
A year after her Achilles tendon injury, Vanessa puts up a perfect 10.0 vault for UCLA.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
What’s with the College judges handing out 10s so early in the season? LOVE that vault, but they could have gone 9.95.
… “She does gymnastics on a whole level that you can’t teach,” Kondos Field said. “It’s god-given. She can do the same exact skills that any other athlete does, but she has this lightness and she makes it seem effortless. It’s ethereal, like she is flying.”…
… In her career as a Bruin, she has performed four flawless vaults, earning scores of 10.000 three times in 2009 and once in 2010. …
Ana Porgras retires
Oh no.
SHOCK! Ana Porgras withdraw only 18! World Champion in 2010 and a beam of hope for gold in London gave up gymnastics
That’s the headline on Sport.ro.
The 2010 World Champion on Beam made the decision after an elbow injury at a Christmas training camp in France.
Read the article via Google Translate.
She won the 2011 Longines Prize Of Elegance in Tokyo. This is a terrible loss for Team Romania, especially on Bars. And for gymnastics fans everywhere.
Update – the Prosport interview translated by Fangymnastics:
From the moment I made this decision there is no turning back. I said stop and I’m not coming back.
how did Italy win Test Meet?
Not many predicted Italy would be the #1 team. (Eric did.)
They won Floor as a team. Ferrari had the highest AA. … But the big reason was the margin (PDF) by which they won Beam as a team.
Watch their highest Beam score, Carlotta FERLITO on YouTube.
14.533 (Difficulty : 6.00, Execution : 8.533).
Click PLAY or watch Francesca D’Agostini on YouTube. 14.525
Slightly over-scored, I’d say.
But a win’s a win. Italy did a fantastic job.
Their Men grabbed the last team qualification spot with a strong performance, too.
I got those links from Between the Olympics, the best page to find routines from London.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 