Italian Gymnastics documentary – episode 2

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (Italian 13min)

You can read an English translation on elisaminimeneghini.tumblr.

The girls from Ferarri’s club Brescia talk about their daily routine and training.

Olympic Gymnastics medalists

Lauren Hopkins posted an interesting list – Olympic Medalists by Country and Year

Simona Amânar is a seven-time Olympics medalist and a ten-time World Championships medalist.

Click PLAY or watch Simona’s DTY from the ’96 AA on YouTube.

Here’s the DTY in the Vault final where she won gold. (VIDEO).

World Cup MELBOURNE promo

Good video editing. But there are a number of lower level skills included. What what? 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Myia Hambrick – Floor

Myia is the top AA in the nation week 1 with 39.575.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It’s fair to say that UCLA seems to have a higher injury rate than the other top College teams. It’s equally fair to say that LSU seems to have comparatively fewer injuries than most — especially considering they are consistently competing a LOT of tumbling difficulty.

(via Irish Daniel)

using spotting boxes for Bars

Spotting boxes can replace spotters. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s from Al Fong’s post – Happy New Year!

Kennedi Edney – Vault

Click PLAY or watch it on Tumblr.

Simone, Aly in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue

“I am thrilled to include the gold medal-winning, U.S. women’s gymnasts Aly Raisman and Simone Biles in this year’s Swimsuit issue,” said MJ Day, SI Swimsuit editor. “Aly and Simone represent all that is beautiful and strong and inspiring in women today. …

SI

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via GymCastic)

NCAA week 1 – Balance Beam Situation

BBS has the most entertaining and informative write-up I’ve seen.

Who had the worst Balance Beam situation of the week?

You MIGHT think it was UCLA with these crazy saves.

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But no. It was Georgia. Read the post – WEEK 1 RANKINGS AND NOTES

Bonus shoutouts:

Kirah Koshinski, West Virginia, Vault – 9.925
Koshinski stuck a 1.5 to rank 4th nationally on vault.

Sabrina Garcia, Penn State, Bars – 9.950
Garcia stuck a floated DLO dismount to rank 2nd on bars.

Madeleine Huber, Missouri, Bars – 9.925
A toe-pointy Jaeger and her own stuck DLO earned Huber the #3 ranking