Author: Rick Mc

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Rats.

On the UCLA site right now:

NCAA vault champion and U.S. National Team member Vanessa Zamarripa will miss the 2011 collegiate gymnastics season after tearing her left Achilles tendon in practice on Tuesday.

Let’s hope she pulls a Courtney Kupets and returns next season to win the all-around.

A theme on this blog is acrobats using free playgrounds for training. (I worked out myself at one today.)

Full Twist reports on a new one in the U.K. branded by Adidas:

… The “adiZone” or outdoor gym in Verulamium Park includes a basketball, football and tennis area, a climbing wall and a freestyle area to encourage dance, aerobics, martial arts and gymnastics.

Daniel Keatings was there for the launch.

Looks a contender for best playground in the world. Stacy tells that at least 40 adiZones will be available across England by the end of 2010.

(via St Albans City & District Council)

Canadian coach Michael Outram was badly injured landing in a pit in a U.S. club.

Seems he may have hit the bottom.

I was happy to see him look strong in an interview with CBC television (Dec. 7th) saying, “I’m a fighter.”

Best way to send your good wishes is via Facebook. Search for “Michael Outram“.

Donations towards medical costs can be made at any TD Canada Trust to “Michael Outram” in Trust acct# 0125 6321315.

One of Brigid’s posts is right on the mark. Trying to make sense of the enigma that is Tatiana Nabieva:

… In Rotterdam, Tatiana Nabieva proved herself to be everything she has promised. She was inconsistent, but she was brilliant. She was by turns funny and sad, angry and calm.

Laughter would turn to tears at the in the blink of an eye- and just as quickly in the other direction. A skill was performed spectacularly one day and flubbed the next. She demonstrated skills, like her toe-on laid out Tkatchev and an Amanar vault that many gymnasts would only dream of, but when it counted individually, couldn’t pull them out for a medal for herself. …

Couch Gymnast – Tatiana Nabieva- Serious Fun

Starts today.

Dec. 10-12th
Location : Centre Sportif de Gatineau
Gatineau, Quebec
Women’s Artistic Competitor’s List (PDF)

Normally Canada has two major WAG competitions a year. The other is Nationals.

WAG/MAG/T&T
May 23-28
Charlottetown, PEI

But 2011 is a BIG year. We have 2 more major meets on the calendar:

Canada Winter Games
MAG / WAG (Youth)
Feb 11-18, ’11
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Western Canada Summer Games
WAG/MAG
Aug. 10-14
Kamloops, B.C.

For all things Canadian Gymnastics, a good starting point is Gym Score Depot. From that page Stu Cram has all the critical links.

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Update from Kelly Manjak of Oakville Gymnastics near Toronto. In the first trial for the Ontario Canada Winter Games team their kids finished 1st to 5th all-around!

Sabrina Gill was 1st at that Trial with a 57.85. On Bars she’s added 3 new skills from last season.

Oakville has the most competitors of any club at Elite Canada including 6 of the 36 Seniors.

There’s a big group from Gymtastics, Calgary, too. Congratulations.

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Anthony Napolitan was the first to land a BMX double front at Big Air, X Games 2009. He didn’t win, actually.

Click PLAY or watch the historic moment on YouTube.

How do YOU flip a single? … It’s not that difficult, so long as you have a foam pit.

Click PLAY or watch the tutorial on YouTube.

(via Woodward)

Steve Penny was named president of USA Gymnastics in April 2005. Penny, who joined USA Gymnastics in 1999, is responsible for the overall management and strategic planning for the association. …

A sports administrator for more than 20 years, Penny’s professional experience includes vice president of Bob Walsh Enterprises, a private sports marketing company in Seattle, and managing director of USA Cycling. He also worked for Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) on its premier international multi-sport event, the Goodwill Games, and for the Seattle Mariners in community affairs and public relations.

USAG

Personally, I really like Steve. He’s doing a great job and (I hope) bringing in the bacon to pay that salary.

link – Tennis boss paces US sport leader salaries: report

(via About.com Gymnastics)

Terrible.

Bo Frese, known worldwide for his gymnastics stunts, broke his neck during a practice session this weekend at ArtSports World in Colorado Springs. He died Sunday.

Frese, 37, apparently missed a padded landing area as he dropped about 30 feet.

A coach at ArtSports World told KKTV 11 News that Frese was in the happiest time of his life.

He says the facility will be closed Thursday for memorial services for Frese, and a tournament this spring will be named in his honor.

KKTV

I’ve linked a number of times to ArtSports World, “the world’s largest trampoline gymnastics center“.

Bo was a coach there.

Good luck catching up to Kohei Uchimura guys.

At Japanese Nationals:

Vaults: a triple-twisting Yurchenko and a Dragulescu (both 7.0 value), a 7.1-value high bar routine (almost perfectly executed layout Kolman) and a 6.9-value parallel bars routine.

He won floor exercise (16.200), vault (phenomenal 16.787 average) and high bar (16.150)

His AA was 92.750. Ono No Komachi reminds that Japan has some bonus points in addition to FIG.

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