Author: Rick Mc

… Although 2011 Canadian all-around silver medalist Jessica Savona will miss this fall’s world championships because of a torn left ACL, she told IG she is keeping busy and staying optimistic during her varied regimen of rehabilitation. …

Savona said she is encouraged by the analysis of her injury by her physiotherapist, Randy Foster, who has compared it with the right ACL she tore in 2008.

“(Foster) is saying that the recovery on the left knee is a lot better than my right, and my left knee seems to be healing a lot faster with more progress than what was seen with my right,” Savona told IG. “Therefore, he and I believe that I will hopefully be back sooner than expected …

JOHN CRUMLISH in IG – Canada’s Savona Takes ACL Rehab Step By Step

Coach Sue Manjak will go to Worlds with Savona’s teammates Peng Peng Lee and Mikaela Gerber. Jessica will be home doing rehab with coaches Kelly Manjak and Lorne Bobkin.

With Savona I felt Canada could easily qualify as a team to the Olympics (top 12).

Now she must count on her team to get to London … AND rehab in time to try out for the Olympics.

If anyone can do it, Savona can.

No question. IGC (International Gymnastics Camp) has produced the best gymnastics videos I’ve ever seen.

This camp promo video is perfect.

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IGC is innovating, too. Their Evolution professional gymnastics competition has potential. And I love the concept of Nick Blanton’s Professional Coaching Diploma (PCD) program.

I’ll be attending the Junior Japan International, September 24-25th in Yokohama en route to Worlds in Tokyo. …

… Lexie Priessman and Amelia Hundley of Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy will compete on the women’s side, while Adrian de los Angeles (SCATS) and Sean Melton (Orlando Metro) will compete for the junior men’s title. …

SCATS’s Grigor Chalikyan and Cincinnati’s Mary Lee Tracy will be the U.S. coaches …

Examiner.com – U.S. junior phenoms to head off to Junior Japan

Click PLAY or watch Lexie’s Amanar on YouTube.

15.900 (6.500/9.400) – Day 2 of Junior Women’s Competition – Aug. 20, 2011 – 2011 Visa Championships

Gymnastike has interviews and videos.

… I’d best get studying Japanese. 🙂 VIDEO

by site editor Rick McCharles

Last weekend was my second time presenting at the annual BC Gymnastics Congress.

One reason the major BC event of the year is so consistently good and popular is that they bring in new speakers. The line-up this year was excellent. Here are photos of just a few:

Steve stayed on to coach at a Training camp hosted by Flicka.

see a few more photos

Rumour – Alberta is planning, for the first time, a big Congress in 2012.

London 2012 Olympics to air in 3D

Panasonic plans to distribute more than 10 hours of 3D Games footage each day from a pool of broadcasters …

… The opening and closing ceremonies will be broadcast in 3D, as will more than 12 sports …

Guardian

Athletics, gymnastics, diving and swimming will be included. My eyes are blurry already.

(via Double Front)

Nathan Gafuik, Brandon O’Neill, Jayd Lukenchuk, Jackson Payne, Casey Sandy, Kenji Ikeda, and Kevin Lytwyn

Good luck guys.

Awesome. … This should be hugely popular. The fittest athletes in the world doing spectacular things.

… photographed and edited by The Lighthouse Film Company for the open of Evolution, a gymnastics event between two teams of Olympians, World Champions and National Team Members.

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Tom Forster and Todd Gardner explain how they use the “Al Fong” bar.

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Sadly, Dave Adlard borrowed mine. 🙂

Contact Tumbl Trak for details.

See more innovative Bar training equipment.

I’m surprised to see such a strong line-up competing the FIG Artistic Gymnastics Challenge Cup Ghent including:

Marco Baldauf (AUT), Diego Hypolito, Jade Barbosaet, Diana dos Santos (BRA), Zou Kai and Wu Liufang (CHN), Tomi Tuuha (FIN), Vlasos Maras (GRE), Kirsztian Berki (HUN), Dutch trio van Gelder, Wammes, Zonderland, Diana Anton Golotsukov (RUS), Regulo Carmona (VEN). …

Rumour is that Olympic Floor champion Zou Kai has a HUGE Floor difficulty start score.

Jiang Yuyuan is there, too, perhaps to prove herself ready for Tokyo.

Prize money of 25,000 CHF makes the event appealing. But we can already predict that somebody will be injured, forcing them to miss World Championships.

Canadian Kristina Vaculik took a year off school at Stanford to try for Worlds and Olympics. She qualified for Worlds Tokyo this past weekend.

But Mackenzie Caquatto is trying to do both Collegiate gymnastics and National Team, simultaneously:

… Caquatto and other members of the U.S. National Team will compete for a spot on the world team. The group meets in Houston once a month to work with Martha Karolyi, the team’s coordinator since 2001, in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

That’s why Caquatto will keep such an insane schedule the next several months. And we haven’t even mentioned she is planning to compete for the Gators once the NCAA season starts in January. …

“She really has her mind set and we are going to do everything we can to help her achieve this goal,’’ (coach) Faehn said. “It’s very rare. There have been some athletes who have come back after college and have done it, but while trying to tackle a full [class] load and do this, it’s very rare and extremely challenging.

“I really think she can stay disciplined and focused and give it a shot.’’ …

Gators gymnast Caquatto is keeping a busy schedule as she attempts a rare challenge

I’m not liking her chances. Marta will want total focus on Tokyo and the Olympics.

Florida has a gorgeous new Player Bios section, by the way.