Author: Rick Mc

UPDATE: Gymnastics Examiner commentary.

Coming up 11-12 September.

Looks interesting. Especially as a first look at gymnasts on the come back trail.

Olympic Floor Champ Sandra Izbasa will be there. She and Romanian teammates Porgras and Chelaru won’t do the all-around, though.

http://view.picapp.com//JavaScripts/OTIjs.js

Couch Gymnast is also getting excited about:

Yang Yilin- still trying to find her way back
Wu Liufang- a multi-world cup medallist this year alone
Ariella Kaeslin- who has been dealing with some sort of prolonged illness for the past couple of months.
Cheong See Teng- who just missed out on a floor medal at the Pac Rims earlier this year.
Jessica Gil Ortiz- fresh off a vault bronze at Pan Ams
Dorina Bozcogo- Hungarian National Champion

MAG and WAG from more than 38 countries have registered.

A bit of everything, including parkour.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Kristina is leaving the Le Reve show in Vegas, moving to the City of the Angels.

(via Greg Marsden on Facebook)

Ireland has been limited in gymnastics development due to a lack of facilities.

But things are improving.

Read an interview with an American coach at Renmore Gymnastics in Galway.

… This year we won 77 medals nationally which can be attributed in part to our fantastic new facility. Before, our most advanced kids could only train 9 hours a week at the very most. Now that we have our own gym though, they can train 15+ hours a week which is making a huge difference. Being from America, I still find it hard to digest that a lot of training hours isn’t normal here, but we’re working on introducing the idea …

Renmore Gymnastics, Ireland – Interview with Ariel Edesses

Renmore has a YouTube channel.

It’s inspiring to see how dedicated can be very young girls.

In addition to being co-owner and head coach of Texas Dreams Gymnastics, Chris Burdette is also a popular lecturer.

Over the past few years, Chris has traveled the country giving a lecture called “Raw Ambition” and was nice enough to share the videos with us here at gymnastike. The 4 videos will be featured on a weekly basis on gymnastike …

Click PLAY or watch Part 1 of 4 on Gymnastike. (7min 11sec)

http://videoplayer.flocasts.org/player.swf

Chris explains the inspiration behind his unique documentary on Gymnastike.

http://videoplayer.flocasts.org/player.swf

Summer is ending …

Thanks Ruth.

Good news, so far, from El Wapo Sanchez on Facebook:

Just wanted to touch base and give you an update on Cal Gymnastics. Tim McNeil was hired as the head coach two weeks ago and Colin Christ is the assistant. This is very good news!!!

Tim has been in touch with Cal Gymnastics Forever and is excited to work with us. We reached our goal of 100k in fundraising for 2012 and beyond. Our goal now is to focus on the short term with events and fundraising activities along with donations for 2011.

The chancellor has delayed his decision on how to combat the budget problem until the end of September. Keep your fingers crossed. Thanks for your continued support and Go Bears …

related – Former Cal Great Tim McNeill Named Men’s Gymnastics Coach

That’s the rumoured big new skill she’s been training.

… Leave a comment if you can confirm.

She’s been working hard according to Twitter, reducing the number of these scrums:

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Linked by coach Greg on the NEW Oakville Men’s Gymnastics blog:

The splint’s advantage is that it can be removed occasionally to wash the arm or let it breathe, study finds …

The study, published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, looked at 92 children aged 5 to 12 who arrived in the hospital’s emergency room from April, 2007, and September, 2009, with broken wrists.

The fractures were a clear break of the bone, and the bone could be a little bit bent or displaced for the child to qualify for the study. Forty-three kids received a splint and the remaining 49 were put in a cast. …

click through to read the details – Globe and Mail – A splint just as good as cast for kid’s broken wrist: study

That’s for a clean break. If there are complications (i.e. growth plate) it might mean a full cast.

A presentation by planning guru Dr. Istvan Balyi is posted online.

Salt Lake City, September 25, 2009. His LTAD is an overview of the career of all athletes. From cradle to grave.

Istvan notes that for all sports in Stage 1, gymnastics is recommended.

Kids need to Run, Swim and Gym before they start to specialize.

Long-Term Athlete Development
LTAD 101 (PDF)

I don’t have time to watch every video. But when the “best of …” page is posted, I work my way through the links.

Here are a couple of videos I missed first time around on Gymnastike Best of August.

Click PLAY or watch GABRIELLE DOUGLAS from Excaliber – Vault – on Gymnastike.

http://videoplayer.flocasts.org/player.swf

Click PLAY or watch DANELL LEYVA from Universal – DOUBLE DOUBLE layout tumbling on Gymnastike.

http://videoplayer.flocasts.org/player.swf