Renown coaches Tom Forster & Neil Resnick are offering what they call an “Uneven Bar Boot Camp”. It’s hosted by Aerials Gymnastics in Colorado Springs.
June 17-19th, 2011
$750 for the entire weekend. This price includes your hotel, food and all materials. The hotel price is based upon two coaches per room. If you want your own room the cost will be $850. (Colorado Springs Marriott)
Colorado Springs Airport – 25 minutes driving time from the gym.
Denver International Airport – 1 hour 25 minutes driving time from the gym.
Six regional meets will be held at campus sites on Saturday, April 2, with the top two teams from each regional advancing to the NCAA Championships in Cleveland, Ohio, April 15-17. …
Denver Regional – Denver University 1. Florida 2. Arkansas 3. Boise State 4. Denver 5. Arizona 6. Brigham Young
Tuscaloosa Regional – University of Alabama 1. Alabama 2. Penn State 3. Illinois 4. Auburn 5. Central Michigan 6. Kentucky
Corvallis Regional – Oregon State University 1. Oregon State 2. Nebraska 3. Iowa 4. Southern Utah 5. San Jose State 6. Michigan State
Ann Arbor Regional – University of Michigan 1. Stanford 2. Michigan 3. Ohio State 4. Iowa State 5. Minnesota 6. Kent State
Norman Regional – University of Oklahoma 1. Oklahoma 2. Utah 3. Washington 4. New Hampshire 5. Missouri 6. North Carolina
Athens Regional – University of Georgia 1. UCLA 2. Georgia 3. LSU 4. North Carolina State 5. Maryland 6. West Virginia
One of the best things about sport is how it breaks down walls: racial, ethnic, social class and religious.
Here’s one example:
… Parkour is big in Jerusalem. Perhaps it’s no wonder that a sport dedicated to overcoming physical barriers should take off in a city where division is an enduring source of conflict.
Photographer Matanya Tausig has been capturing the stunning jumps and stunts pulled by groups of young men, across the roofs, walls and streets of the city. …
Ashley Caldwell was a competitive gymnast for 11 years at Apex Gymnastics in Virginia.
… The trampoline is familiar terrain for Caldwell, a former gymnast who was wooed to aerial skiing at age 13 as part of a campaign by the United States Ski Team to recruit gymnasts and divers into the sport. Although the program, known as the Elite Aerials Program, is only a few years old, Caldwell is its star alumna.
Caldwell had never seen aerial skiing until 2006, when, at 12, she watched Jeret Peterson perform his Hurricane jump at the Turin Olympics. By 14, she had moved out of her parents’ home in Virginia to train full time at Lake Placid. In 2010, she made the Olympics as the youngest American competing at the Vancouver Games.
Caldwell’s biggest victory came Jan. 21, when she won her first World Cup gold medal (VIDEO interview) after jumping on her home turf in Lake Placid. Last Friday, she barely missed the podium at the freestyle world championships in Park City, Utah, finishing fourth in aerials. …
He held the record for men for the most Olympic medals at 15 (7 gold medals, 5 silver medals, 3 bronze medals) until Michael Phelps surpassed him at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. …
In his final years, Andrianov developed the degenerative neurological disorder multiple system atrophy and in his final months was unable to move his arms or legs or talk. Andrianov died March 21, 2011 at the age of 58. He died in his hometown of Vladimir. …
Not only one of the greatest gymnasts of all time, but also one of the greatest Olympians.
After a surprising fall on Floor and defeat at American Cup, our World Champion again looks nearly unbeatable winning all 3 event Finals she competed at World Cup in Paris.
… As one commenter said about Mustafina on bars, “she is kicking butt and taking names” at this competition …
Nothing but praise for Aliya Mustafina on that, the Couch Gymnast’s wrap-up post.
More of the same on Gymnastics Examiner:
… Mustafina hit one of the better beam sets she’s ever done. If Mustafina has a weakness, beam is it — it’s the one event she seems to train and compete identically.
But Sunday in Paris she controlled her incredible difficulty very well. I was especially impressed with the more or less stuck triple full from two back handsprings. …
Brigid: “I believe when Mustafina is calm – that is when other gymnasts should be scared.”
Blythe’s main complaint about the new Finals format:
Why six is better than four: The beam final was a good demonstration of how the FIG’s new rule about category A World Cup meets can backfire. It was set to be an exciting event, more or less a rehash of the 2010 World Championships beam final.
But the fact that three of the four gymnasts fell, and two of the three earned medals in spite of their falls, illustrates why you need more gymnasts in a final at a World Cup event. I don’t understand why the FIG thinks eight is too many — it takes too much time, perhaps? — but if there must be fewer gymnasts in a final, six would be a more reasonable number. …
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