Author: Rick Mc

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Strength guru Christopher Sommer, author of Building the Gymnastic Body, is offering only two workshops in 2010.

The first is end of May at his gym in Arizona:

“Spend a jam-packed day with Coach Sommer, as well as some of his own assistant coaches and athletes …

Through the use of presentations, demonstrations and hands-on experience, the subjects covered will include:

• basic joint pre-habilitation
• passive flexibility
• introduction to active flexibility
• fundamental static positions
• fundamental bodyweight exercises
• basic handstand work
• basic ring strength work

The Level 1 Seminar Sat. May 29th is prerequisite to attending Level 2 on Sunday and/or Level 3 on Monday .

Register early and receive a $150 discount on tuition.

SEMINAR LOCATION: Xtreme Gymnastics, 15821 N 79th St., Scottsdale, AZ.

Highly recommended.

related – Ann Arbor Gymnastics endorses Chris in a post called The Bodyweight Conditioning Advantage

GOLD = Grishina 2, Komova 2.

What a wonderful rivalry to have going in Russia.

VAULT
1.Victoria Komova (RUS) 14.950
2.Maria Paseka (RUS) 14.275
3.Erika Fasana (ITA) 13.912

BARS
1.Anastasia Grishina (RUS) 15.375
2.Victoria Komova (RUS) 15.200
3.Diana Bulimar (ROU) 13.600

BEAM
1.Victoria Komova (RUS) 14.900
2.Larisa Iordache (ROU) 14.575
3.Tess Moonen (NED) 13.975

FLOOR
1.Anastasia Grishina (RUS) 14.275
1.Larisa Iordache (ROU) 14.275
3.Anastasia Sidorova (RUS) 14.200

photo from British Gymnastics on Facebook – Silver Grishina, Gold Komova AA

LIVE blogs:

• Gymnastics Examiner
• The All Around

VAULT
1. Ekaterina Kurbatova (RUS) 14.287
2. Youna Dufournet (FRA) – 14.275
3. Tatiana Nabieva (RUS) – 14.15

BARS
1. Beth Tweddle – 15.875
2. Aliya Mustafina (RUS) – 15.05
3. Nataliya Kononenko (UKR) –

I’m amazed that Beth Tweddle can be so continuously successful on Bars. Her routine is so bloody difficult. Congratulations!

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BEAM
1. Elana Racea (ROM) – 14.4 (replacement for injured Ana Porgras)
2. Aliya Mustafina (RUS) – 14.375
3. Raluca Haidu (ROM) – 13.950

FLOOR
1. Beth Tweddle – 14.825
2. Anna Myzdrikova (RUS) – 14.325
3. Diana Chelaru (ROM) – 14.125

I think I’ll remember these as the Beth Tweddle European Championships. Well done!

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Expectations for the Olympics will be ramped up even higher in GBR, if that’s possible.

LIVE blogs of Finals:

• Gymnastics Examiner – Senior
• The All Around – Senior

Andy Thornton has been searching YouTube for videos of the top all-around gymnasts, especially the American girls.

His highest praise goes to Jordyn Wieber:

… What an unbelievable return to competition…this girl is unstoppable. This performance would have won the 2009 world all-around championships (not just from her score, but also from actually watching her routines). …

…my guess is this would be good enough to win the all-around at this year’s worlds as well, although she of course won’t be eligible since she turns 15 this July.

At least she’ll be eligible at next year’s worlds and in London…

… Her beam here was absolutely stunning – one of the best standing fulls probably ever done. And her bars was much improved over last year as well – I love the Weiler kip pirouette – such a unique skill and she did it ex …

I don’t know, I think Wieber is pretty much neck-and-neck with Viktoria Komova for the honor of #1 gymnast in the world right now. …

Click PLAY or watch Jordyn’s Floor on YouTube.

Commentary and more videos on Andy’s American Gymnast blog – Pacific Rim Videos!!!

Hey, I like the new clean look of American-Gymnast.com.

More Pacific Rim videos on YouTube:

• nade00
• ausgymblog
• ausgymnastics
• RK2197 (MAG)

… according to E-Poll Market Research, a research firm that, for the past 12 years, has measured over 5,000 celebrities on 46 attributes for their E-Score Celebrity (ESC) metric …

Shawn Johnson may have started to fall out of favour with her peeps, the gymnastics community, but with the American general public, she’s still #1.

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… the top 10 most appealing athletes aren’t your superstars, but rather Olympians, like Shawn Johnson (who leads all athletes with a 75 appeal-rating), Lyndsey Vonn and Shaun White. …

ESPN

What’s next for SHAWNEYj …

(via luvindy on IG forum)

… Oh and just fyi HUGE news coming ur way… Will be a bit before the official release of it… But I think u all will be extremely happy 🙂 …

Who knows?

JUNIOR BARS:
1. Wieber (USA) 14.825
2. Ross (USA) – 14.250
3. Zheng (CHN) – 13.925

SENIOR BARS:
1. Huang (CHN) 15.450
2. Bross (USA) 14.700
3. Afanasyeva (RUS) 14.250

JUNIOR VAULT:
1. Ross (USA) 15.100
2. Wieber (USA) 14.925
3. Zhou (CHN) 14.325

SENIOR VAULT:
1. Pegg (CAN) 13.850
2. Little (AUS) 13.737
3. Moreno (MEX) 13.675

JUNIOR BEAM:
1. Tan (CHN) 15.350
2. Vega (USA) 14.475
3. Gardiner (CAN) 14.425

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SENIOR BEAM:
1. Bross (USA) 14.925
2. Raisman (USA) 14.675
3. Wu (CHN) 14.625

JUNIOR FLOOR:
1. Wieber (USA) 14.600
2. Ross (USA) 14.200
3. Tan (CHN) 13.950
3. McGrath (AUS) 13.950

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SENIOR FLOOR:
1. Bross (USA) 15.175
2. Raisman (USA) 14.625
3. Vaculik (CAN) 13.925

At Pacific Rim Championships. .

Karen Cockburn rules. After winning medals at the past 3 Olympics, she was selected as Canada’s flag bearer for the closing ceremonies in Beijing.

Is she planning on competing London?

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via The All Around on Facebook:

Russia wins the European title with 169.700 points; while Great Britain makes history with a silver medal and 168.275. Romania obtains the bronze medal 164.975. After the podium, 4th France 163.575; 5th Italy 161.675; 6th Switzerland 156.175; 7th The Netherlands 156.00 and 8th. Ukraine 155.375.

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Congratulations. Seems everything is going right for the 2012 Olympic hosts.

… Medal ceremonies. Team Russia couldn’t keep the smiles off their faces as they stood at the top of the podium and mouthed the words to the Russian anthem. Ksenia Semyonova looks especially delighted, and Mustafina has a huge grin on her face.

The Romanians, by contrast, look rather somber. …

Gymnastics Examiner – live blog notes

Coach Laura would love some feedback on an old issue?

Is it ethically and psychologically appropriate to assign physical conditioning as a penalty for minor rules infraction in the gym?

For example:

… sit-ups for running across the floor while someone is tumbling, 50 push-ups for forgetting to put away hand grips (for a level 6-7) …

She’s talking about competitive gymnasts. (For Recreation kids best is a time out / inactivity penalty.)

Here’s gymnast Luke Boyd updating the tally of rope climbs he “owes” coach Rhett Stinson.

Leave a comment if you have an opinion for Laura.