His latest is the official home page of this Romanian star.
Gabriela won the Olympic Bronze medal with her teammates at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Team Final! She also won the Gold medal with her team at the 2008 European Championship. Gabriela is also the Bronze medalist at the 2009 European Championship in the Balance Beam Final. …
Gymnastike posted some FUN today for New Year’s Eve:
This year we’ve gotten access to shoot podium training at some big events like SEC Championships, Women’s NCAA Championships, and VISA Championships. Podium training days are always fun, but no one brings more fun to the podium than the Georgia Gym Dogs. They don’t train; they just dance!
… superstar gymnast Beth Tweddle will become an MBE after being included in this New Year honours list.
Beth, from Bunbury near Chester, is one of only twenty people named as members of the Order of the British Empire sporting honours list for her services to gymnastics.
The 24-year-old, dubbed Tweddle the Medal, joins Formula One racing champion Jenson Button on the list which was published yesterday by Her Majesty the Queen.
Speaking to the Leader, Beth said: “I was very shocked when I found out. …
UCLA Gymnastics is well known for having their athletes go on to careers in the Circus after graduation. Less well known is how many girls go on to stunt work.
UCLA magazine posted an excellent article on Bruin gymnasts getting work as doubles on TV and in the Movies.
Five former UCLA female gymnasts work on Make it or Break It.
… Natalie Padilla ’08, Jordan Schwikert ’09 and Ariana Berlin ’10 perform as stunt doubles for some of the lead characters; Tasha Schwikert ’09 plays a gym-nast on the show; and Karin Silvestri-Coye ’98 serves as the show’s gymnastics coordinator. …
2008 NCAA Champion Tasha Schwikert
… Other former Bruin gymnastics stars who have found stunt work in Hollywood include Dee Fischer Murphy ’96 and Kiralee Hayashi ’00 …
… Heidi Moneymaker, has been doing stunts full-time since 2001 …
Selected Most Heartwarming Interview Of 2009 on Gymnastike … and that’s saying a lot.
Nina Kim was an integral part of the University of Utah team as one of their two All-American seniors, but was also best friend of Olympic Champion Nastia Liukin and got to travel to Beijing alongside Nastia. In this interview, Nina talks about how her relationship grew with former WOGA teammate Nastia Liukin and watching her journey to Olympic glory.
It promotes her travel as a clinician, motivational speaker and for appearances. … Not all that easy to do if she’s supposed to be in the gym training full-time.
This initiative is getting some negative buzz on the internet. I’m happy to see Nastia organize her own personal schedule. … But is a retirement announcement next?
Gymnasts the world over are plagued by wedgies. Happening at meets everywhere is the dilemma of wheather to take the deduction.
Sticky Buns liquid adhesive and sticky strap adhesive tape help to solve this problem. The kit contains a 0.5oz jar of adhesive with its own brush, 20 tape pieces and 20 alcohol prep pads (skin does need to be clean and with no oils on surface). All is packed into a plastic pouch to throw in your gym bag.
GymSmarts is far and away the best and biggest publisher of gymnastics DVDS.
Here’s there biggest sellers from the past year. (In case you didn’t get the ones you wanted for Christmas.)
SETS
Mas Watanabe’s Tumbling Set
Tony Gehman’s Advance Tumbling Set
Mas Watanabe’s Bar Set
Mas Watanabe’s Vaulting Series
Beth Gardner’s Preschool and Rec Gym 1-3
SINGLE DVDs:
Tammy Biggs – Leaps and Jumps
Tammy Biggs – Beam Complexes
Mary Lee Tracy – Core Strength
Mary Lee Tracy – Circuit Training
Tammy Biggs – Flexibility
Tony Retrosi – 5 Bar Skills
Tammy Biggs – Round-off
Tammy Biggs- Flipping Drills
Tammy Biggs – Aerials
GymSmarts is Tom & Reiko Beach. Click through to their home page if you want more information. Most DVDs are $30.
