Author: Rick Mc

Hilarious.

Featuring Georgia Bonora, Emma Dennis and Shona Morgan.

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Lucky those guys are tough.

(via thepianist on IG forum)

UCLA rocks the first meet of the year to defeat Utah. Anna Li went 9.95 on Bars. Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs won the AA.

The No. 2 ranked Utah gymnastics team stumbled mightily in its season opener, falling to No. 5 UCLA 196.600-195.125 before a crowd of 5,128 in Pauley Pavilion. …

Saturday’s loss snapped a 10-meet Ute win streak against UCLA–a streak that included a tie-breaker victory over the Bruins in the preliminary round of last April’s NCAA Championships. This time around was not nearly so close.

“UCLA looked awfully good,” said Utah co-head coach Greg Marsden. “They are typically a slow-starting team, but today we looked like UCLA usually does (in the early season). I take my hat off to UCLA. They were a much better team tonight and they are definitely a team on a mission. This was a disappointing start for us and hopefully it is a wakeup call.” …

Utah Utes

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TsukThePain asked for recommendations on the best “gymnastics performances” over the past 10 years.

Those videos are being posted in batches of 4 at a time. Here’s one:

Monica Rosu vaulted ahead of the pack with her beautiful tsuk double, but it was her Amanar that really left gymnastic fans around the world in awe. Performed with the right amount of power, Rosu’s yurchenko 2.5 was near perfect. Monica is Tsuk the Pain’s 23rd pick for Best Perfomance of the Last Decade.

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Click through to TsukThePain to see more.

1. Four gymnasts appear twice on the list.
2. Americans, Russians, and Chinese comprise 72% of the list.
3. Four Countries have only ONE entry in the list.
4. There are 8 FX routines, 6 Vaults, 6 Beams, and 5 bar sets.

The biggest story of last night was Oklahoma upsetting Florida. Hollie Vise had top scores on Bars and Beam.

The No. 9 Oklahoma women’s gymnastics squad led wire-to-wire in a 196.250-195.275 upset over fourth-ranked Florida in the Sooners’ season opener on Friday in front of 1,325 fans at Lloyd Noble Center. …

… “We hit 23-of-24 routines which is phenomenal for your first competition,” said Kindler. “Now, there are always things we can do to improve, but I thought overall it was an excellent first meet. The freshmen and Natasha were phenomenal. They hit eight routines, out of eight, and were some of our highest scores. …

No. 9 Sooners Stun Fourth-Ranked Florida

For a complete rundown of what else happened on the opening night of the season click through to Gymnastics Examiner – NCAA report: Florida, Penn State upset at season openers

CollegeGymFans.com has even more detailed coverage and links.

ArtSportsWorld is in Colorado Springs.

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I’ve still not heard of a bigger gymnastics foam pit, 50 x 25 feet, 8 ft. deep.

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Thanks Nancy.

From ThePenguin888. Where does Justin get this footage?

Young Japanese girls competing double double on Floor. And much more. Mega difficulty with questionable form and technique.

Still … Japan is the most underrated nation in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. They’ve never had any “politics” on the judging side.

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Seira Suzuki (the girl doing the Amanar) is now a senior. Teramoto, Sasada, Konishi, and Taniguchi turn senior in 2011. Murakami turns senior in 2012.

Juniors featured in the video are; Natsumi Sasada, Risa Konishi, Seira Suzuki, Yoshino Taniguchi, Asuka Teramoto, Riho Shibata, and Mai Murakami. Song is “Edono Temariuta Tu” by Cute.

UCLA Hall of Fame gymnast Kim Hamilton Anthony has written a memoir, Unfavorable Odds, and will have a book signing at UCLA’s Jan. 9 gymnastics meet against Utah in Pauley Pavilion. …

Hamilton Anthony was a four-time NCAA Champion at UCLA, winning an unprecedented three consecutive titles on floor exercise from 1987-89 and also capturing the vault title in 1989. …

Prior to competing at UCLA, she was a U.S. National Team member from 1984-86. …

Hamilton Anthony’s path to success was not an easy one. In her memoir, Unfavorable Odds, she shares her story of not only overcoming the unfavorable odds of being a 5-7 African-American gymnast from a low-income, urban community, but also the challenges she faced being surrounded by drugs and violence. It also chronicles her journey to escape the cycle of hopelessness that pervaded her everyday life and reveals the keys she used to overcome the obstacles she faced, in a way that anyone can apply to his or her own life.

“It is my desire to encourage and inspire others to persevere through life’s difficulties, in order to find true purpose and lasting fulfillment,” said Hamilton Anthony.

Unfavorable Odds will be available at all major retailers on Feb. 2. You can also purchase the book in advance at UnfavorableOdds.com.

UCLA Bruins Women’s Gymnastics

There’s an interesting life story video on her website.

Another good video from Coach Bart of Gymnastics-Skills.com.

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Next step would be the same series of drills without the lateral travel.

Have you ever seen that skill in competition on the low rail?

I think that’s Rose Kalam Woo, age-8.

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It helps to be really, really short.

This video was linked by Kristi Marks on Facebook.