Author: Rick Mc

An act in Les 7 doigts de la Main‘s show La Vie.

This video is from (I think) the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain competition in Paris.

Hand to hand circus act by Sébastien Soldevila et Mimi Bonnavaud.
(The 7 Fingers)

Numéro de main à main par Sébastien Soldevila et Mimi Bonnavaud (Les 7 doigts de la main)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

This is something like La La La Human Steps meets Acrobatic Gymnastics. Wow!

Mimi is like an acrosport version of Louise Lecavalier.

(Linked by senior Cirque coach Tom Otjes on Facebook.)

related – SFGate backgrounder (2007) on Sebastian Soldevila and Emilie (Mimi) Bonnavaud.

Dariya Zgoba (Ukraine) won gold on Bars at the 2007 European Championships and was a finalist at the Beijing Olympics.

I’d call her unique transfer a Stoop Stalder on low, “hecht” to high. Love the Pak to Stalder, too.

Click PLAY or watch it (10sec) on YouTube.

ComeBackCathy calls it a “Zgoba”. I’ll buy that.

Dariya Zgoba UB Glasgow 2006.

There’s a discussion thread on that skill on IG forum.

related – DariyaZgoba.com (English)

Remember Cisco, the one arm rope climb guy.

Here’s another version. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

One comment suggests it’s fake.

It’s not. I’ve met Cisco. He’s the real deal. He told me he could do many feats of strength on 1-arm without much intense training.

Check this out …

Click PLAY or watch Cisco on YouTube.

See more videos on the Gibson Saltocafe YouTube page.

Congratulations.

… the 2000 U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics Team will be awarded their Olympic team bronze medals at a special ceremony on Aug. 11 in Hartford, Conn., in conjunction with the 2010 Visa Championships. …

Amy Chow, Jamie Dantzscher, Dominique Dawes, Kristen Maloney, Elise Ray and Tasha Schwikert. Morgan White was named to the team but withdrew just prior to the Games due to injury, and Alyssa Beckerman was the alternate. …

The IOC recently stripped China of its 2000 Olympic Games women’s team bronze medal because one of its athletes did not meet the age requirement.

USAG

This is coach Krista Morris. She’s celebrating her brief holiday from the gym by doing gymnastics atop Mt Remus, Alberta.

besthike trip report

Fun at the Flip Fest camp.

Posted on the Flip Fest Summer Camp Facebook page.

Great idea.

This week’s gymnastics technique video features a low impact yurchenko full vault drill used by the University of Minnesota women’s gymnastics team and Coach Jim Stephenson …

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://c1403192.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/player.swf

They have a traveling rig connected to a twisting belt set up above their trampoline. Jim takes us through the drills they’re able to do on the station to teach all types of vaults: yurchenkos, tsukaharas, and even handspring entry vaults. The biggest advantage of a drill like this is that it’s low impact for the gymnast meaning they can do high reps of them without the pounding on their bodies.

Click PLAY or watch U Of Minnesota Traveling Rig Vault Station on Gymnastike.

http://c1403192.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/player.swf

Here’s a similar twist belt concept. This is Calgary Gymnastics Centre Trampoline sports, coach Brett MacAulay.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It slows down the skill brilliantly.

… Ultimately, however, I’d prefer not to use a belt, if possible. Or to use one as little as possible. Better the athlete do it themselves.

Marie Sophie Hindermann photoshoot.

more photos on GymFever (Romania)

MostepanovaFan:

Montage of Anna Pavlova on beam from 2001-2010. Easily my favourite gymnast of current times.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

481095ymg on IG forum created a Beam routine out of skills Anna has competed in the past:

Roundoff layout mount (E), front aerial (D), + side somi (D), + kolesnikova (D), switch ring leap (E), flip flop (B), + flip flop (B), + back layout to two feet (E), kotchetkova (D), + flip flop (B), + layout step out (C), full turn w/ leg at horizontal (C), onodi (D), + omelianchik (D), sissone (A), + sheep jump (D), roundoff (B), + back layout 3/1 dismount (F)

E 1
D 2
D 3
D 4
E 5
E 6
D 7
C 8
D 9
D
D
F 10
… old code counting 10 skills

CV = 1.00

4.40 + 1.00 + 2.50 = 7.90

That really surprised me. With that A Score (she would’ve had to complete every connection) she probably could have won any competition she was in without a fall. Thoughts everyone?

This post is for the 15 coaches, all successful, who took the 6-day course at CGC last week.

All course videos and links are now posted on the official Level 3 Coaching Clinic 2010 (MAG and WAG) home page.

Clinicians: Kyle Shewfelt, Adam Wong, Jeremy Mosier, Valérie Oudin Arsenault and Rick McCharles.