Author: Rick Mc

The “boom” of the kaboom kills your rotation. … Unless you got talentz.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Yep. He tried quadruple back.

Wearing wrestling shoes as he’s training “wall tramp”.

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A Maryland acrobatics team featured on an America’s Got Talent (season 6) promo.

USA Gymnastics on Facebook:

Current T&T competitor (and coach) Tristann Brown and fmr jr. elite athlete Alicia Grant are in the group Gymkana in the semi-finals.

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More build-up than act, this still wows the general public. Click PLAY or watch Sandou Trio Russian Bar on YouTube.

Cassie Craig is a former Level 10 gymnast from Tops Gymnastics in Centerville, Ohio. (Her married name is Cassie Sandou).

August 19-21, 2011, Tel Aviv

Looks like it was a good meet. Here were the top 10 all-around, including international guests.

Full Results (PDF)

You might be able to watch this video about the competition.

gymnicetic:

According to the Russian sports website sport.ria.ru Valentina Rodionenko announced the names of the gymnasts who will train for the World Championships:

Viktoria Komova, Anna Dementyeva, Ksenia Afanasyeva and Yulia Belokobylskaya will train all four apparatus, Tatiana Nabieva will focus on vault and bars, Maria Paseka on vault and floor. And Alena Polyan who finished first on floor at the Universiade is also in the training team as well as Yulia Inshina – they both will prepare themselves as alternates for the team.

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Gymnastics Examiner commentary.

Men

Emin Garibov
Sergei Khorokhordin
Nikita Ignatiev
David Belyavski
Denis Albyazin
Andrei Cherkasov
Anton Golotsutskov
Konstantin Pluzhnikov

(via THE ALL AROUND)

See 2 more New Tokyo Posters (via GymNiceTic)

An injury on TV to one of the top gymnasts in the world sparks discussion on how it might have been prevented.

NewsTimes.com – Bross’ status for worlds unknown after knee injury

Personally, I thought Rebecca’s bad landing off Beam was extremely dangerous, too. She really did looked primed for injury at VISA Championships.

George Novak, former FIG judge, doesn’t comment often. But when he does, we should listen:

… If a clean 1.5 TY would beat a sloppy DTY, or a clean DTY would beat a sloppy Amanar we would not have kids pushing for the extra tenths that they so desperately need to to be on top. …

That’s it in a nutshell. Thanks George.

But instead of communicating that obvious instruction to every judge, FIG is instead “simplifying” the judging regulations for the 2016 cycle after Bruno Grandi referred to the 2012 Code as a ‘time bomb‘.

How is that simplification going?, you might ask.

Queen Elizabeth doesn’t have much faith in the process:

… Around 200 pages of text were produced about the women’s Code alone. The Code itself is a document of some 192 pages of densely packed text, tables and symbols, and to make things worse it is supplemented by a misleadingly named ‘Helpdesk’ of some 58 pages, which is supposed to be a condensed, easy-to-use guide, but which in fact adds new ideas to the original core Code as well as possible new variations in interpretation. All in the name of ‘simplification’. …

I’m not optimistic that the major problem with our current rules — too much credit for difficulty — will be solved.

There is one bit of good news:

… Instant Replay and Control System “IRCOS by FIG”, jointly developed by the FIG and its partner Longines, recently underwent substantial modification. …

… users will be glad to hear is that from now on, scores given by reference judges will be visible on the screen. …

FIG

Recall the reference judges at Worlds in Rotterdam? … I didn’t think so. Their influence was far from transparent.

Perhaps in Tokyo Nellie Kim will be making fewer phone calls to her Judging Panels if there’s more transparency in scoring.

(via Full Twist)

My best guess is that FIG will throw more hours, paper, technology and money at the much criticized WAG rules … and that we’ll still have dangerous Amanars beating good YDT vaults in the Rio Olympics.

Gymnastics rules change could improve safety. But I’m predicting they won’t.

Facebook is the worlds largest collection of disorganized, impossible to search, photos.

I rarely donate photos to Mark Zuckerberg, instead linking to pics in my Flickr account.

… But I have to admit this new thumbnail preview format Facebook is rolling out looks great. One of the few “improvements” ever that I would instantly call an improvement.

Amy Van Deusen of About.com Gymnastics is now also writing for espnW, a new branch of espn.com committed to spotlighting women’s sports, gymnastics included.

Check out a sample post, Amy’s write up on VISA Championships – Wieber dominates nationals; Bross injured

Rather than try to legislate “equality for women in sport”, far better is to create products that the general public want. Women’s Artistic Gymnastics is super marketable.

The new Chellsie Memmel looks fantastic. Much better to me than when she won Worlds 2005. (Back then I was disappointed by her bad basics and poor artistry.)

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube. (Very smart choreography and music.)

Right now I have more confidence in Chellsie and Alica hitting at Worlds Tokyo than anyone else aside from Wieber.

… Is this a new coaching strategy under an ultra-demanding code? Retire. Heal completely. Get back into shape. Train specifically for the target meet. … Try to avoid the chronic overuse injuries that plague the girls who have trained relentlessly for years.

The psychology of the “comeback” is easier than staying at the top, too.

CONGRATS to Chellsie. And please heal that shoulder quickly.

related – Star Tribune – A step backward after making strides

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