Author: Rick Mc

Does this look familiar?

See more baby Nabieva videos and photos via Stoi!.

Click though to Couch Gymnast for baby Mustafina.

Anyone care to explain the biomechanical advantages of Paul Ruggeri’s weird round-off?

Paul placed 3rd at the 2010 Toyota Cup …. This was his first time competing this new routine!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Love the Tamayo (layout double Arabian).

But more than anything else, this is a perfect example of why Men’s gymnastics is so un-artistic. It’s more advantageous to add a cheap C-part than to do any corner parts, … or even hold a V-sit.

What do you call a jump backwards to land on your neck and shoulders … ?

A ‘cradle’. Thanks TP.

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube. (30sec)

Sounds like a number of other Soviets included this skill in the past.

Thanks betweentheolympics.

Third place Beam in Elite Canada Finals.

Click PLAY or watch Miranda on YouTube.

Canada has some strong Beam and Floor. But needs to improve Vault and Bars to qualify as a team for London.

This excellent update was written by Hilary Findlay, Ph.D. LLB, and pertains to the Canadian context.

I got it via email as I subscribe to the Canadian Centre for Sport and Law – Newsletter.

In many service sectors, some form of police record check is now common. Obtaining police record checks for volunteers is part of an organization’s due diligence and part of their standard of care to ensure that risks within the organization are reasonably managed.

… there are some new updates and it is time to revisit the issue. For organizations, it is increasingly important to have a good handle on the nature of police record checks – what they are, what they can and cannot do, and what degree of check that you need for your volunteers.

‘Police record check’ is a blanket phrase that can refer to investigating the criminal history of a volunteer. But all police record checks are not created equal. In fact, there are two basic types of police record checks – a CPIC check and a local police record check. The source for each of these checks provides different information and gives you a different ‘product’. Which should you use? Why? …

Check the comments for the rest of that article.

The question I’ve had as a Head Coach is … “Who PAYS for the Police Check?”

I feel the club should pay, not the coach.

After deciding that Nadia was the most boring gymnastics tweeter I followed, … I unfollowed.

Luckily, Full Twist still follows her. And flagged this tweet:

… Actually, I’ve unfollowed MIOBI, as well. When does it start up again?

For Canadian coaches …

I’m headed up to Prince George, B.C., soon, host of the 2015 Canada Games.

I’ll be running a MAG and WAG L2 Technical, December 19-23, 2010. (The L2 in Vancouver over the same dates is already full.)

details . … There’s still space in that course. If you’re desperate to get away from Christmas mayhem at your house, leave a comment.

Vogue Russia – January 2011 cover.

Do you recognize her?

… She won the Olympics (as well as 18 world championship medals and 25 European championship medals)

(via Gymnastics Examiner)

British Gymnastics are delighted to announce that Nick Ruddock has been appointed into the new role of Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Junior National Coach.

Nick joins the BG Coaching Team with experience spanning clubs throughout Great Britain and America, as well as time spent at International training camps at home and abroad. Nick is a High Performance Coach and spent several years in an assistant position at Notts Gymnastics Club working with World and Olympic gymnasts, before moving to a Performance Coach role at the City of Manchester Institute. …

British Gymnastics

We assume the Voronin Cup will go in Moscow, December 17th and 18th.

We assume Viktoria Komova is competing.

Things are slowing down as we approach the holidays, though.

This might be your chance to catch up on all the recent news:

THE ALL AROUND – Weekly round-up: 3-12 December 2010

Gymnastics Examiner – The gymnastics week in review: Romanian retirements, pole dancing and cocaine

Blythe calls 2010 the “year of the comeback”, Shawn.

I know it’s hard to stay current on Yuri van Gelder’s cocaine relapses. But a lawyer claiming to represent him, emailed me declaring he definitely DID NOT do the drug prior to Worlds.

UPDATE:

Viktoria Komova … will compete at Voronin Cup among the seniors.

… current and former Russian national team members like Anna Pavlova or Yulia Lozhechko are scheduled to compete, as well as World winner Tatiana Nabieva …

THE ALL AROUND

The Men’s line-up is strong, too.