Author: Rick Mc

Aunt Joyce recommended a montage of Soviet girls, including members of the 1992 team.

The golden age so long ago that … Alexandrov was coaching … with a thick head of hair.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

These girls all grew up with an hour of trampoline and an hour of ballet every day. It shows.

China is criticized for not being innovative. That’s hard to accept after watching these 8 gymnasts:

Zhu Sangsang
Jiang Yuyuan
Huang Ying
Jiang Wei
Li Linjing
Xiang Xuelei
Guan Wenli

Zhou Duan (1997) Gaylord 2. … Wow.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That was linked by Amanda Turner on Facebook.

Check Vellu at 40sec on this tricking highlights reel.

He’s from Finland. On team Unito.

… Seems to me I’ve seen video of Deferr doing that skill in training.

(via kinesthesist)

Everybody loves Chellsie freaking Memmel these days.

They like that (of the comeback queens) she walks the walk, … not just talks the talk.

She’s competed twice already. That takes guts.

Spanny has a funny take on Chelsea’s recent Gymnastike interview.

Definitely Chellsie needs a Tweddle solid 7.0 start Bar routine to have any chance to make the Olympics. But I sure like how she’s handling this comeback.

Good luck. I’m cheering.

Big Fake Smile – at least i didn’t fall and break my talent.

In the lead-ups to World Championships 2011 and Olympic qualification, all eyes are on Russia.

Anastasia Grishina, Anastasia Sidorova, and several other senior gymnasts (with Kristina Sidorova and Anna Rodionova from junior team) will be competing at the Moscow Championship in the Dynamo gym on January 25’th!

Anastasia Grishina Online on Facebook

A fundraiser of the Men’s Intercollegiate Gymnastics Support Program. $20.

details (PDF)

14th World Gymnaestrada
Lausanne (SUI), July 10 – 16, 2011

… some 20,000 gymnasts from 52 nations, registered for the 14th edition of the World Gymnaestrada. For the first time since 1969, delegations from Algeria, Malta, Mongolia and Uruguay are among the participants. In terms of statistics, female gymnasts make up 78% of the participants with strong representation of 11 to 30 year olds. Switzerland itself, with 3,300 participants, followed by Germany (1,800) and Finland (1,400), represent the largest delegations, while Mongolia (10), Guatemala (10) and Serbia (13) count among the smallest. …

FIG

(via Rec Gymnastics)

… the world’s largest gymnastic sporting event …

Larger than the North Korean mass games, like the Arirang Festival?

Chris Sharma is one of the greatest rock climbers of all time.

… but how did he do at the Wanderlust Yoga festival?

Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.

That’s only one of many, many Chris Sharma vids posted on a sponsor’s site, prAna.

Many gymnasts go into Yoga after retirement. Personally I’m not all that much of a fan.

Recall that Scotland released coach Tan Jia En immediately before Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Bad move. Both coach and gymnast Adam Cox withdrew from the Games team in protest.

They are advertising for two new positions:

• 2014 Commonwealth Games Men’s Artistic Coach (full time position)
• Education Administrator (1 year fixed term contract)

Click through to Full Twist for links to both.

… who’s the better all-arounder?

A new feature on Gymnastics Examiner poses questions like this to bloggers like these:

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