Author: Rick Mc

Different ways to use safety straps in the gym. Good stuff.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Nick has more videos on his amelieblanton YouTube channel.

In Illinois the Indianapolis area.

… co-founder of the Jaycie Phelps Athletic Center, which is holding a grand opening from noon-5 p.m. Sunday …

Phelps, 30, was a member of the Magnificent Seven that won the United States’ first Olympic team gold medal in women’s gymnastics at Atlanta in 1996. …

Her 25,000-square-foot multisport facility will feature instruction for youths in baseball, softball, gymnastics and cheer tumbling …

Phelps owns the facility with her father, Jack, a baseball instructor, and gymnastics coach Dave Marus, formerly coach of Metroplex Dallas …

IndyStar – Phelps would like to send a gymnast to where she’s been

From the Facebook album: Gym Almost Done by Jaycie Phelps Athletic Center

If you’ve followed Gymnastics Coaching for years, you’ll remember many times it was down.

My excuse … IT WAS HACKED.

Seems that most website hosts, inexpensive and costly, are vulnerable to hackers. It’s an arms race where the hosts win most of the battles, but not all.

When this one goes down Bluehost blames me. And offers help only reluctantly. I’ve learned to hate Bluehost though it’s supposed to be one of the best.

Solution … VaultPress

When Gymnastics Coaching goes down I simply DELETE the old site. And immediately restore from one of 11 redundent backups hosted by another company.

It’s being backed up in real time …

Not inexpensive at $15/month (BETA). But I feel it’s worth it.

I do wonder why Bluehost doesn’t offer the same thing.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Will 3D video productions of Cirque du Soleil shows be HUGE?

… Obviously.

LOVE Head Coach Dan Niehaus told me the video shoot for his show looked pretty cool.

From the Facebook album: LOVE 3D Spot Shoot by The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil

Check a long thread on the topic on Cirque Tribune.

Men’s events

Floor exercise
1. Santiago Lopez Viana, Mexico, 15.125
2. Enrique Gonzalez Sepulveda, Chile, 15.075
3. Jacob Dalton, USA, 15.050
Other U.S. finish
5. Glen Ishino, USA, 14.900

Pommel horse
1. Glen Ishino, USA, 15.175
2. Jorge Peña Castiblanco, Colombia 14.775
3. Casey Sandy, Canada, 14.650
Other U.S. finish
6. Bryan Del Castillo, USA, 13.375

Still rings
1. Regulo Carmona, Venezuela, 15.575
2. Tommy Ramos, Puerto Rico, 15.225
3. Federico Molinari, Argentina, 15.100
U.S. finish
4. Wesley Haagensen, USA, 14.925

Women’s events

Vault
1. McKayla Maroney, USA, 15.387
2. Daniele Matias Hypolito, Brazil, 14.425
3. Jessica Gil Ortiz, Colombia, 14.125

Uneven bars
1. Gabrielle Douglas, USA, 14.225
2. Jessica Lopez, Venezuela, 14.150
3. Kristina Vaculik, Canada, 14.075
Other U.S. finish
6. Kyla Ross, USA, 13.350

USAG – USA wins three individual event gold medals at 2010 Pan American Championships

Very funny, Coach Jonathan.

I never try to decide whether or not a gymnast can continue after a … suspicious minor injury. Instead I assign some alternative exercises they like far, far less than work-out.

Are those cheerleading shorts?

Bartlett Gymnastics Center in Illinois was the top Level 10 Men’s Team in 2010. They’ve graduated a lot of guys to the NCAA.

Here’s some general training video from workout July 28th. Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike. (8min 41sec)

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

If you only want the outtakes, jump to 8min.

This is how you get 14,000 spectators to a dual meet. Promotion.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Still, Alabama, I find, uncool. Utah would never post a video this old school.

(via Ben89 on College Gymnastics Board)

Another example of the insanely litigious American system:

A school district in West Virginia is taking out all the swing sets on school playgrounds. Administrators ordered all swings removed from Cabell County elementary schools after being forced into a $20,000 lawsuit settlement — the district’s second swing-injury related suit in a year. (The other suit is still in litigation.)

Schools Safety Manager Tim Stewart told the New York Times that one lawsuit involved a child who broke his arm after jumping out of the swing like Superman.

The decision to remove swings is one motivated purely by liability. Changing national safety standards have made it difficult for the schools to defend themselves against lawsuits. …

read more on the Strollerderby parenting blog – Are Swings Too Dangerous?

Stay home, eat junk food, and play video games kids.

… America has become the most litigious nation in the world, by virtually any measure. According to the National Center for State Courts, 15 million civil cases are filed annually in the United States. The American civil justice system is the most expensive in the world, with costs running more than twice that of other industrialized nations. Yet despite the high costs of the system, it provides a poor return on the dollar—only 20 cents of each dollar goes to compensation for economic damages. …

FreedomWorks.org

When is this insanity going to start subsiding?

Jason?