cleaning vinyl Gymnastics mats

No matter how we clean our mats … residue is left over after it dries.

Most often we are using water and vinegar.

But we’ve tried many other cleaning solutions.

Leave a comment if you’ve come up with anything that dries cleaner (than this).

RenΓ© Cournoyer to American Cup

Heart this on Twitter.

RenΓ© is one of cleanest and most artistic Artistic gymnasts in the world. A great add.

Week 5 NCAA top 10


1. Oklahoma
2. Florida
3. Utah
4. Denver
5. UCLA
6. Minnesota
7. Alabama
8. Michigan
9. LSU
10. Georgia

Full scores.

Florida’s 197.800 in defeating Kentucky marks the second straight week in which Florida has recorded the higher score than Oklahoma …

UCLA dropped two places this week, the result of an utter beamtastrophe that saw the Bruins put up three 9.100s …

Georgia snatched a season-high 197.425 in defeating Auburn at home on Sunday, a fanciful, Alice in Wonderful score-scape I can barely even talk about …

Read Spencer’s commentary on Balance Beam Situation

Annie Beard – unique tumbling combo

Annie trains at Texas Dreams.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Simone’s Yurchenko double pike

Looks like she could compete it tomorrow if she wanted.

All hail the G.O.A.T.

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Jess Daykin: 2 Bars skills, 9/2 twists

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Dominique Dawes Gymnastics Academy

Now 43-years-old, the triple Olympian superstar is opening her own Gym.

Barcelona 1992 (bronze), Atlanta 1996 (gold), and Sydney 2000 (bronze).

You could never forget ‘Awesome Dawesome‘ once you’d seen her perform live.

She’s also the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in Artistic Gymnastics.

Now with 4 children under age-6, Dominique was looking for a program that would care for her own kids much better than she was treated in the bad old days.

Instead, she decided to open her own Gym.

Past Pain Inspires Olympic Champion Dominique Dawes to Open New Gymnastics Academy

“It’s really to create a healthy culture, a culture that’s needed in the sport.”