Category: Gymnastics

Good Morning Simone

#GetsMeStarted

With about 100 days to go until Team USA starts competition at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Kellogg has debuted its “What Gets You Started?” campaign, uncovering and celebrating what drives people – everyone from parents to elite athletes – to get up in the morning and uncover the possibilities of each new day.

To help tell this story, Kellogg’s has enlisted Team Kellogg’s, a group of first-time Team USA Olympic and Paralympic hopeful athletes. First-time Olympians have made up more than 55% of Team USA at the past four Olympic Games.

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via Gymternet Clan

Altadore Gymnastics 50th Anniversary

February 10-13, 2017. In conjunction with their annual Ed Vincent Invitational.

Altadore 50 years

It’s my home club. I was amongst the first boys to join Altadore. Spent about 23 years at that Gym.

Ed Vincent has been there 30 years or more. That sounds like a lot. But it’s rumoured Ed is well over 100 years old already. 🙂

Ed-Vincent

can anyone beat Kohei?

Max is hitting. Oleg is hitting. Manrique is rapidly improving.

Click PLAY or watch Kohei’s (not perfect) AA on YouTube. (6 apparatus)

Sooner or later someone will defeat Kohei in the AA. I’d say Uchimura is the man to beat in Rio. But the contenders may be within one fall of him at this point.

At age 27, Kohei is not sticking as consistently as he has in the past.

Osijek Challenge Cup prelims

Osijek, Croatia.

Vault
1-Ellie Downie GBR – 14.600
2-Tjassa Kysselef SLO – 14.125
3-Rose Woo CAN – 14.000

Tjassa Kysselef
Tjassa Kysselef

Bars
1-Natalia Kapitonova RUS – 15.000
2-Seda Tutkhakyan RUS – 14.700
3-Ruby Harrold GBR – 14.400

Floor
1-Steven Legendre USA – 15.200
2-Paul Ruggeri USA – 15.150
3-Matthias Fahrig GER – 15.000

Pommel
1-Saso Bertoncelj SLO – 15.000
2-Robert Seligman CRO – 14.950
3-Filip Ude CRO – 14.900

Rings
1-Ibrahim Colak TUR – 15.750
2-Denis Ablyazin RUS – 15.600
3-Igor Radivilov UKR – 15.250

full day 1 qualification results

Amanda Turner – Qualification Begins at Osijek World Cup

Missy Reinstadtler to Utah

Melissa Reinstadtler is one of many exciting incoming gymnasts for next season.

Click PLAY or watch her at 2015 JO Nationals on YouTube.

related – 2013 montage VIDEO

(via College Gymnastics Board)

Gymnastics Dream Catchers

This looks like an old montage with a new inspirational voice over. Leave a comment if you know the source.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Thanks Mary.

Ricna to cross grip

Click PLAY or watch Georgia-Mae Fenton on Twitter. Working it into to Ezhova.

via GymFever2012

Cata Ponor – Floor

Though she didn’t stand up vault in Team Test Event, Catalina did an astonishingly difficult and interesting Floor routine.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

STOP the ‘Man Wipe’

Of all the fugly things we have to watch on Floor, the faux body waves are ugliest. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Guys use that … thing because they are (supposedly) deducted for standing 2sec or longer before a tumbling pass. There should be no such rule. It’s safer to let the gymnast catch his breath before a tumbling pass. And the routine time limit restriction already serves the purpose in not allowing anyone to waste time during a set.

(via GymCastic)

Ana Sofia GOMEZ – Beam

Solid bwd 1/1.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Latin American gymnasts – overall – had a very good competition at the Rio Test Event. Despite the probable troubles hosting the Olympics in Rio, it will be good for development of Gymnastics sports in the region.