Author: Rick Mc

Bryan Milonja edits the excellent Trampoline Canada blog.

I’ve subscribed by RSS feed.

One sample post:

Here’s a video on Charles Thibault that Julien Roberge and I worked on together.

Thibault, who trains at ITECQ in Quebec City, is currently ranked as the second best male trampolinist in the country.

The video includes parts of an interview I conducted with Thibault after he won the 2nd Quebec Cup on February 28th in Saint-Hyacinthe. The compulsory routine shown in the video is from this same meet and the optional work is from some of his previous training sessions.

Trampoline Canada – Charles Thibault Videoclip

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

home page – Trampoline Canada blog

Elite Canadian gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel was injured July 15, 2008 when “attemping a complex high bar dismount from the parallel uneven bars”.

She’s since been paralyzed from the neck down.

Taylor is currently a patient at Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Centre.

My name is Taylor Lindsay-Noel. If you are reading this it means you heard of me and have an interest in finding out more or supporting me on my miracle journey to walk again.

This site was set up to let the public know about what happened to me and how they can support the efforts of everyone involved in assisting me on my journey. Also to thank everyone for their generosity, prayers and support to me and my family.

Team Taylor

Please click through for more information.

(via Gymbrooke)

An interesting glimpse into Utah’s conditioning program.

This 9min video shows part of the team maintenance program mid-season.

Jon Webster is the Utah Strength and Conditioning Coach.

This was filmed on March 7, the morning after Utah’s home meet against Arizona State. The Utah team typically conditions twice a week during season, with one of the workouts being mid-morning on Saturdays so they can take the remainder of the weekend off.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

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A personal inspiration to myself, the founder of International Gymnast magazine is dead at 87.

Glenn Sundby, 1921-2009

If you don’t know his story, check out this article – A Tribute to Glenn Sundby.

This looks like a trend. Another European gymnastics blog.

gymnastics4 began posting March 4th. It’s called Gymnastics In Europe.

This blog will try and cover as much European Gymnastics news as possible especially stuff that is not made available on other blogs and websites.

A sample post: Cottbus 2009

The tournament of masters in Cottbus will take place on 20-22 March. The entries for the Women’s Competition only includes 32 participants with Romania, Russia, Great Briatain and France … Particpants of interest include Hu Yuhong and Sui Lu of China. …

… The Netherlands team will be Wyomi Masela and Lieke Wevers. Lieke is Sanne Wevers twin sister and has strong routines on bars and beam and an elegant floor routine. Like her sister she has difficult turns on beam. This is her bars routine from the recent Dutch Euro Trials even though she fell she has potential to score highly and I hope she gets into the final this weekend. …

Click PLAY or watch Lieke Wevers on Bars on YouTube.

Love the releases. But overuse of toe-on, toe-off?

Check it out – Gymnastics In Europe

Some are up.

Anderson Loran, Taiso

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Still no results posted on the official website – JurassicClassic.com

I’m always saying the best Women’s Artistic Gymnastics was in the late 1980s in the former Soviet Union.

Many agree.

But after watching the latest MostepanovaFan video, I’m not so sure.

Montage of gymnasts from the 80s performing skills, followed by people still performing them today.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

In most cases the modern version is better than the 1980s version.

Of course it’s not a fair comparison. The apparatus is far better now. AND we have so many good Chinese gymnasts now.

More MostepanovaFan video posts.

Note that YouTube has already disabled the audio. I’m getting increasingly irked with YouTube. It will be time to leave for another service soon.

Perhaps GymnastTube.

I recall how nervous Stephanie McGregor was about going to Oregon State University on gymnastics scholarship.

Then how excited and happy she was on returning home for her first Christmas.

She made the transition from club to College gymnastics fairly easily.

It doesn’t always go so well. …

The COUCH GYMNAST posted the best overview I’ve seen on what it’s like to be a Freshman gymnast on an NCAA Gymnastics Team.

Amanda Castillo

The emphasis on TEAM. Dealing with new coaches. Living far away from family. Keeping up your grades. Being a “celebrity” athlete at some schools. Competing with the NOISE … sometimes you cannot hear your Floor music. Reduced training hours. Competing 16 times in just a few months. Sometimes 3 times in the same week. Making the “line-up” as a rookie.

It’s a great read.

longest Couch Gymnast Entry EVER!

From a terrific Inside Gymnastics interview:

… I have two ultimate goals. And you may laugh when you hear them, but I don’t care.

The first is to be a leader on the U.S. team for the next four years and do such a good job that we can stand on top of the podium as a team at the next Olympics. Yeah, I’m talking about a team gold medal.

And the second is to be the Olympic all-around champion.

So, you may be laughing right now but, you know what? I tell everyone that if I go to the 2012 Olympics, have the greatest meet of my life and we do everything in our power and don’t win, or don’t even medal, I’ll still love it. I’ll love every minute of it. All the training. All the hard work.

Yeah, I have that ultimate goal, but if I try my best, and have the greatest meet of my life, I’ll have no regrets. None.

HORTON HEADS HOME PART 2

larger original – flickr – ammersmif

I’m not laughing.

How many great all-arounders will compete in London 2012?

I can see Jon in the mix.

In Russia they are still competing bar routines on a single rail. Good idea.

Championship in Moscow in October 2007 – Compulsory Bars.

Anastasia Grishina

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

UPDATE: Single rail routines are still part of the girls programs in Australia and the U.K.