Author: Rick Mc

On August 27th, Chinese WAG national team held an internal test meet.

1. Yao Jinnan
2. Tan Sixin
3. Sui Lu

Details on the Chinese Gymnastics Blog

Neither the Women’s nor Men’s teams for Worlds have been announced, as yet.

Fabian Hambuechen on Facebook:

Competition was not too bad. Just messed up pommel horse…:-(…rings&pbars was good and high bar amazing (7,5/16,35)

… …tomorrow will be the announcement who makes the team for worlds and after that the event finals …

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The 2004 Olympic Beam and Floor Champion, Catalina Ponor looks great.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube. (15.775 starts at 27sec)

Couch Gymnast commentary:

… She still has that gutsy tumbling on beam style that I love. It is all attack! She looks so tall on the beam, you wonder if she will get her moves in! She is connection her Onodi to LOSO and back pike, which is good and her double spin is tight. There is a lot of tumbling, which she does with confidence and her leaps are better than they are on floor. Between she and Porgras, the Romanian beam score will be fabulous! …

Click PLAY or watch her Yurchenko 1 1/2 on YouTube. (14.525)

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube. (14.625)

See more Romanian Nationals videos on Gymwatcher. Or, even better, on Between the Olympics.

Bea was at the competition, posting detailed scores and commentary.

Gymnastics Examiner – Regarding Romania: Who do you put on their World team?

Evolution will be held at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on August 27. Tickets start at $14.50 and are available at www.gymnasticsevolution.com

Evolution is a brand new gymnastics competition where over 20 Olympic, World Champion and NCAA gymnasts will compete in two teams made up of both men and women. And what’s more, the*audience*will be judging. The fast-paced battle will combine gymnastics, music, lights, atmosphere, adrenaline and excitement to create a new style of competition. …

See some training videos on the gymnasticsevolution YouTube channel.

The best discussion of this interesting experiment I’ve read is on Sports Talk – Can “Evolution” make the grade?.

Funny cuz it’s true.

Fruit of the loom commercial
(by The Richards Group)

featuring rhythmic gymnast: Stella Angelova & Emilly Levingson
Director: Gerard de Thame
music group : Wojan Brothers

This was a very large casting call that lasted almost 2 months. People flew in from over seas to attend this call. Every performer was hired individually and the choreography was put together over 2 days of shooting in Los Angeles. From the thousands they saw, in the end they hired 6 dancers, 3 trapeze performers, 1 contortionist gymnast & 2 rhythmic gymnast. None of us are Cirque du Soleil performers.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

UPDATE: This is not an official competition, but rather a test event to check readiness. Much like the “competitions” they do with Team USA at the Ranch.

Hosted by Oakville Gymnastics, Aug 25th and 27th. Photos via Grace Chiu on Facebook.

More photos from the Facebook album: Selection Activity by Grace Chiu GraceClick

Only 10 gymnasts (15 on the original list) are trying out for the Canadian teams to Artistic Worlds Tokyo & PanAm Games Guadalajara, both this October. Juniors are not allowed to compete PanAm this time around, making it difficult for nations to field a strong team to both.

Anysia Unick, Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto, Dominique Pegg, Maddie Gardiner, Coralie Leblond-Chartrand, Talia Chiarelli, Kristina Vaculik, Mikaela Gerber, Christine Lee, and Brittany Rogers.

Mikaela Gerber hit 4 for 4 finishing with the 2nd highest AA score. I’ve heard that Peng Peng had the highest AA, but was not happy with her competition. She (and many others) had falls.

Leave a comment if you have more news from this trial.

UPDATE. AA rank from day 1:

1. Lee
2. Gerber
3. Vaculik
4. Pegg
5. Gardiner
6. Chiarelli
7. Leblond-Chartrand
8. Rogers
9. Dancose-Giambattisto
10. Unick

… Right now some are wishing we had MORE gymnasts trying out: especially Silvia Colussi-Pelaez who is competing for Spain. (53.0 last meet) and/or Jessica Dowling who is trying to make the Dutch team. Not to mention Sarah Flett, who is sitting at home healthy. She has finished ahead of girls in this field already this season.

related – Couch Gymnast asks Can the Pan Am Nations Field the Best of Both Worlds?

… Pan-American Games gymnastics competition being held from the 24th to the 28th of October after the Worlds finish on the 17th. …

Who made the decision to disallow Juniors at the PanAm Games?

With scores like this:

Last night Ana Porgras won the all around competition at the Romanian Nationals with a 58.650. Amelia Racea placed second with 58.525, with Raluca Haidu in third with a 57.675. …

Couch Gymnast – Ana Porgras Wins Romanian Nationals

Bars doesn’t seem to be hurting the AA scores too badly.

Click PLAY or watch Anna’s Floor (Double Layout) on YouTube.

Amazing.

… For this moment, the plan is conceptual. Detailed planning will be carried out over the next months by the winning company in conjunction with the parties involved in the park construction. …

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The best product I saw at the World Gymnaestrada trade show was a trampoline DVD recently released by Eurotramp, in German and English.

Five hours of content created by over 80 people, endorsed by everyone up to the FIG President.

What is the Eurotramp Trampoline Education Program?

The Trampoline Education Program contains training videos about Trampoline, Minitrampoline and Psychomotricity. It is an excellent supplementation for any practical training course. …

Why did we develop the Trampoline Education Program?

Imagine a sport hall which is equipped with the usual sports devices. You assemble all the different apparatus including a trampoline and make children choose their favourite device. What will that be? You are right… The Trampoline!

Trampolining is extremely attractive for children and boosts the development of the equilibrium function, the coordination ability and motor adaptability like no other sports device. …

… read more

I reviewed the DVD with Jeremy Mosier, former T&T Worlds competitor. This introduction video shows activities on a trampoline that not even Jeremy had seen.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Quality of trampoline progressions and production values are very high. It must be the best tramp instructional resource in the world right now.

Cost for the DVD is 20 EUR. Or — after free registration .. and then email confirmation — you can watch it online.

The DVD booklet (PDF) has a detailed table of contents.