Author: Rick Mc

At Top Flyte gymnastics.

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This is the first time I’ve seen a playground swing used IN the gym. Better, though, is a trapeze. Best swinging rings.

Wow.

She’s fantastic in a video on her Weekend Edition Yahoo News blog.

You have to click through to watch the video, though. Yahoo! is so lame, they don’t allow embeds. Yeesh.

The new PE class: Active gaming

Dominique Dawes could go far as a news reporter. But she’d better flee Yahoo! ASAP. That’s a sinking ship.

Stuck dismount.

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More routines from that meet on igorgymn1’s YouTube Channel

Vault
1. Nabieva 14.82
2. Chusovitina 14.3753
3. Pavlova 14.25

A Bars
1. Mustafina 15.52
2. Nabieva 14.753
3. Galiulina (UZB) 13.15

Beam
1. Pavlova 14.52
2. Maksiuta (ISR) 14.23
3. Galiulina (UZB) 13.004

Floor
1. Mustafina 14.72
2. Belokobylskyaya 14.43
3. Elizarova (UZB) 13.854

Full Twist has been following that meet.

Mustafina was a late entry.

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Videos are starting to be posted.

Anastasia Sidorova won 3 of 4 apparatus in the Junior division. She fell on Bars. Rewriting Russian Gymnastics has those results, too.

Rotterdam highlights from USAG.

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(via Full Twist)

Another video success stories in major events over the past year – 2010 USA Gymnastics: An Amazing Year

Filmed by a pro, Claudiu Voicu, here’s another superb edit. Not many new tricks, but plenty of amusing and entertaining sequences.

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stormfreerun:

Tim “Livewire” Shieff
Paul “Blue” Joseph
Ashley “Spyder” Holland
Jan Barcikowski
Franck “Cali” Nelle

(via FlipCatch)
stormfreerun from the UK.

Starts creepy. Gets worse.

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Name this bad film.

Skip this post if you don’t have your own blog.

Every year or so I experiment with offline blogging software, usually MarsEdit, as that seems to be the most popular on the Mac platform ($40). (The main competitor, Ecto, is only $20.)

There is a bit of a learning curve in using MarsEdit. But I think I’m willing to spend the time to learn it. Finally.

Advantages:

• it’s faster to work offline

• live preview while you edit

• you can set up a “template” to duplicate the look and feel of your actual blog

Problems:

• no option to open links in a new window

• the resulting HTML text is more complex, more difficult to go back and edit

Leave a comment if you’ve a better solution to write blog posts offline. This post was written with MarsEdit. See any problem with it?

Nathalie from Netherlands made a sweet tribute video for Ana Porgras.

Sometimes I feel like I’m alone
Sometimes I feel like I’m not that strong
Sometimes I feel so frail so small
Sometimes I feel vulnerable
Sometimes I feel a little fragile
A little fragile

lyrics

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Ana is neither fragile nor vulnerable.

But she is under-hyped. Far better than many average fans give her credit.

Bea linked to that edit in celebration of Ana’s birthday, December 18th.

For those coaches who feel wrist supports are as much a fashion accessory as a training aid, … confirmation:

American Gymnast – Animal Print Tiger Paws (sale $51.95)

Be sure to watch Jay Thornton’s sizing video before you order.