Author: Rick Mc

Introducing free running basics to school girls.

Girls do Parkour: Girls Empowerment Day

ParkourGenerations put together a great session for girls to get to learn the basics of parkour in London. Needless to say, the girls loved it. …

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Automobile TV ad.

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Quite impressive, wouldn’t you say.

With female gymnasts, my main two nutrional concerns:

A good article on USolympicteam.com

Symptoms

The easiest symptom to notice associated with iron deficiency anemia is fatigue that worsens with exertion. Fatigue is common and can have many different causes (such as other nutritional imbalances, illness or stress). If an athlete experiences normal fatigue throughout the day and is not worsened with exercise, the cause is likely not iron deficiency by itself. The following are also possible symptoms of iron deficiency anemia:

Decreased performance

Sleepiness and fatigue (outside of normal)

Poor concentration

Moodiness or irritability

Always feeling cold

By Bob Seebohar, Fuel4mance – IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND PERFORMANCE

Thirteen-year-old American Jordyn Wieber bested her US teammate, 16-year-old Olympian Bridget Sloan for the American Cup title, 60.20-59.60. Wieber got an early edge from her Amanar vault, and in the end it was that vault that made the difference: Sloan and Wieber tied on bars, and were within a tenth of each other on both floor and beam.

In the men’s competition, German Olympian Fabian Hambuechen pulled out the victory over American David Sender on the last event. Hambuechen’s 15.75 on high bar — an event he won at the 2007 Worlds — enabled him to edge Sender 90.65-90.45. Olympian Joey Hagerty placed third with an 89.55. …

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(AP Photo/Jim Prisching) – larger version

(AP Photo/Jim Prisching) larger version

Steff sent us a link of Fabian Hambuechen doing some dives for a German TV Show (kind of show competition; athletes and VIPs alike try to dive, quite funny . Fabian says in the vid that he trained without a coach for this event.

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Fabian competes in his old sport, gymnastics, tonight in the American Cup.

He’s the favourite to win. And wants to have some FUN.

UPDATE: anna points out …

Triples and quads have been given greater DD this Olympic cycle, hence the 20.6.

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Jason Burnett, the Silver medalist in Beijing, is the world record holder for Degree of Difficulty in competition with 17.5 on April 2, 2007, at the Lake Placid Trampoline World Cup.

But back in 2004 he put together an 18.5 routine — likely the highest DD ever on a regulation tramp — in training.

Now …

MissEducated pointed us to THIS.

!!!! Hardest TRamPoline Routine 20.6 Jason Burnett !!!!!!

Click PLAY or watch the hardest routines ever done on a regulation trampoline on YouTube.

WOW.

As one commenter said, “Jason Burnette is God”.

Have you seen this Xtreme sport?

Downhill combative ice skating at speeds of over 43km / hour.

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In Quebec City, Arttu Pihlainen from Finland won the Men’s division. Keri-Anne Wallace from Calgary, Canada, the Women’s.

Questions Remain – Taylor Lindsay-Noel

That’s the title of an important post on Gymbrooke regarding the catastrophic injury to former Seneca gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel.

That post leaves us with one question:

Should GO (Gymnastics Ontario) or GCG (Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique) be required to inform members as to what happen and what steps have been taken to avoid similar types of accidents?

… I’m not sure of the answer. But it’s a very valid question.

I can tell you coaches were talking of the accident and lawsuit today at a distant competition I attended in the States. And — due to the secrecy of the details of the injury — these distant coaches are assuming that the Seneca coaches are liable.

I’ve never seen specifics of what happened. Though many rumours have floated.

Seems that Taylor was training a very difficult and dangerous new bar dismount.

I hope the facts are released soon.

Kamerin Moore from Geddert’s Twistars won the “friendly” meet vs Japan 56.350 over second place Mackenzie Caquatto 56.250.

This was a small meet held in advance of the American Cup in Chicago.

full results

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STill the most famous gymnast in the USA is 1984 Olympic Champion.

She’s ranked the 19th celebrity athlete for name recognition. Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are #1 and #2.

International Gymnast forum – mpk – Mary Lou still dominant