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A nice edit.

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Starts today in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.

Good luck to everyone competing tramp, double-mini and tumbling.

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Thanks Brett MacAulay.

Update:

Legend Julie Warnock has retired, age-27.

She trained 9000 hours in a career that includes two current World Records. Happily, Julie will continue in the sport as a judge.

Dr. Gerald George, author of the current international best-seller Championship Gymnastics: Biomechanical Techniques for Shaping Winners will be speaking at the following meetings in 2011:

June 11-12, USA Gymnastics (USAG) Region 3 Congress, Vail, Colorado

August 12-14, US Association of Independent Gymnastics Clubs (USAIGC) Educational Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada

August 18-20, USA Gymnastics National Congress, St. Paul, Minnesota

September 30-October 1, Gymnastics Ontario Federation Congress, Ontario, Canada

If you can’t make one of those, check out his YouTube Channel:

BALANDIN Aleksandr (RUS) – ‘Butterfly to Invert Cross’

15.433 (D: 6.7 / E: 8.733)
Rank : 4th

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Watch Scott Rosenthal training the ‘Balandin 2’.

Thanks Geoffrey Taucer.

Watch it on YouTube.

Dan Purvis, Ashish Kumar, Epke Zonderland, Philipp Boy, Danell Leyva, Oleg Stepko … ??

The funniest response was from Aunt Joyce:

…I believe a more appropriate question would be who is the most overrated gymnast in the world. In terms of underrated, so little attention is paid to men’s gymnastics that it is impossible to discern.

I picked this guy:

Leave your comments or correct answer on the original Gymnastics Examiner post – The most underrated male gymnast in the world?

Update: Dan did not qualify for Europeans. I assume he’s not quite yet ready, physically. Olympics are the priority.

PA Women’s Gymnastics:

A word of caution to all gymnasts and parents of gymnasts around the state. There is an individual going by the name of Jennifer Messelier contacting gymnasts through Facebook pretending to be a gymnast and trying to get them to “friend” “her”.

This person is either claiming to have met them at a competition, or saying that “she” is considering switching to their gym. Please be aware that this person is most definitely not who they say they are and in all likelihood is a man. …

Beware of a “Jennifer Messelier” contact via Facebook

Update:

… i was just informed that “he/she” is now going by the name “Jennifer Elizabeth“, and the picture is of a sitting pose on the beam. Beware, she is adding college girls from all over the country…

via a good thread on College Gymnastics Board

That’s a recent headline on USA Today:

A leading Chinese sports official is calling for the implementation of bone-age analysis to stop athletes from faking their birth certificates to qualify for events.

Cai Zhenhua, the vice president of the State General Administration of Sport, was quoted as saying in Tuesday’s official People’s Daily newspaper that age fraud besmirches China’s national image and tramples on the principle of fair competition.

He also is head of the Chinese table tennis federation and says it will adopt bone-age analysis as a test case.

The IOC stripped China of its 2000 Olympic bronze medal in women’s team gymnastics for using an underage girl. …

… read more

Cai Zhenhua has been pushing bone testing over the last year in response to age scandals in Chinese sports.

It’s a specious talking point.

Bone density testing is not accurate enough to determine chronological age.

Is Cai Zhenhua simply trying to deflect criticism? … Or does China have some new more accurate kind of bone density test?

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Jason posted the first of a a three part series on what he’s learned …

… I started doing gymnastics when I was six years old and trained for over 16 years. At age 11 I started competing and placing in national competitions at the Junior and later the Elite levels. The highest I ever placed in senior men’s competition was 15th – I was never Olympic material, but I trained with many who were.

Previously, I wrote about how I blew out my knee and came back to win a national championship – this post is specifically about what gymnastics has taught me about acquiring and mastering skills.

Gymnastics is the perfect sport to teach these lessons …

Here’s an outline of his key points:

Acquiring and Mastering Skills

• Deliberate practice.
• Focus on the fundamentals.
• Break down the skill into pieces.
• Visualization

read more – What Gymnastics Taught Me About Acquiring and Mastering Skills

Gymnastike:

… The Oklahoma Sooners finished their regular season undefeated and exploded with a 366.40, the highest score yet to be posted this season. They have moved past Stanford for this week’s #1 national ranking.

There will be one regular season meet left for some teams, others will rested for their 2011 Conference Championship meets on April 2nd. …

I’ve found the Women’s rankings very accurate in predicting who will finish highest at team championships. But not so with the Men.

I won’t make any prediction on who will win this year, though I do plan to be at Championships to see the meet with my own eyes.

Steven Legendre is a safe bet to win the all-around, however.

Penn State has another #1 Ring Man, Scott Rosenthal. Amazing.

Click PLAY or watch Scott on YouTube.

See much, much more on Gymnastike.