1. Dedication
2. Competitiveness
3. Perseverance
4. Discipline
“Don’t be so hard on yourself.”
“But I have to be. I’m a gymnast.” …
4 Qualities That Stick With You Forever If You Were A Childhood Gymnast
Category: Gymnastics
Ryohei Kato TV news spot
Kato was injured last year – where else? 😦 – on competition Vault landing mats. He’s pleased the ankle has recovered sufficiently to compete the AA.
… focusing on Ryohei Kato’s performance at the American Cup last month, and his preparation for the All Japan Championships this weekend (4/1-3). In Japanese and English.
If you wear headphones one earpiece is in English, the other Japanese.
Click PLAY or watch it on Daily Motion.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40h3ri_20160328ryohei-kato-news-bilingual_sport
how parents can keep Gymnastics FUN
1. Focus on improving skills and not on the result of the competition.
4. Remind your child how far she has come since she began the sport.
9. Don’t compare your child to teammates.
12. Build on the sports experience to create happy childhood memories.
Click through to <a href="https://annejosephson.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/12-ways-to-keep-gymnastics-fun-for-your-child/ ” target=”_blank”>Jag Gym Blog to read the rest.
Men’s African Championships FINALS
FLOOR
1. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 14.350 pts
2. Wissem Harzi (Tunisia) 14.300 pts
3. Mohamed Aouicha (Algeria) 14.100 pts
POMMELS
1. Mohamed Aouicha (Algeria) 14.750 pts
2. Hillel Metidji (Algeria) 14.250 pts
3. Wissem Harzi (Tunisia) 14.150 pts
RINGS
1. Ali Zahran Ramadan (Egypt) 15.150 pts
2. Tarek Shalaby (Egypt) 14.150 pts
3. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 13.750 pts
results
Click PLAY or watch Ali Zahran Ramadan on Facebook. Best Victorian position I’ve ever seen.
VAULT
1. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 14.725 pts
2. Hamza Hossaini (Morocco) 14.425 pts
3. Mohamed Moubarek (Algeria) 13.850 pts
P BARS
1. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 14.250 pts
2. Hillel Metidji (Algeria) 14.200 pts
3. Harzi Wissem (Tunisia) 13.900 pts
Click PLAY or watch Metidji on Facebook.
H BAR
1. Mohamed Raghib (Algeria) 13.950 pts
2. Ahmed Almaraghy (Algeria) 13.450 pts
3. Mohamed Bourguieg (Algeria) 12.950 pts.
results
Women’s African Championships FINALS
UPDATED with all apparatus. Though the host Algerian Gymnastics Federation has still not posted results, I found them on the Algerian Press Service.
VAULT
1. Kirsten Beckett (South Africa) 13.549 pts
2. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 13.066 pts
3. Mai El Sayed (Egypt) 12.966 pts
BARS
1. Armia Zakaria Rahaf (Egypt) 13.133 pts
2. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 12.866 pts
3. Kirsten Beckett (South Africa) 12.500 pts
results
BEAM
1. Nada Mohamed (Egypt) 13.133 pts
2. Lukisha Schalk (South Africa) 12.500 pts
3. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 12.000 pts
FLOOR
1. Mandy Mohamed (Egypt) 13.600 pts
2. Kirsten Beckett (South Africa) 13.233 pts
3. Claudia Cummins (South Africa) 13.166 pts
results
Click PLAY or watch some video on Facebook.
There’s additional video (MAG & WAG) on this YouTube channel.
(via Cordelia)
Gym Momentum Training Camp
NBC TV – U.S. Olympic trials
Nick Zacardi:
NBC will air its most hours of Olympic trials coverage ever — 76 in total, including more than 60 in primetime — continuing next week in advance of the Rio Games in August.
It tops the 67.5 hours of coverage in 2012 ahead of the London Olympics. …
June 23 (St Louis MO)
Gymnastics Men’s Trials NBCSN 8:30 p.m.
June 25
Gymnastics Men’s Trials NBC 9 p.m.
July 8 (San Jose CA)
Gymnastics Women’s Trials NBC 9 p.m.
July 10
Gymnastics Women’s Trials NBC 8:30 p.m.
Kailah Delaney – Vault
rare Men’s Gymnastics skills
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
USA Gymnastics Women’s Collegiate National Championships
… The national event will be held on April 8-10 at Hyland Arena in St. Charles, Mo.
The teams that earned a spot in the nationals were Bridgeport, Lindenwood, Brown, Seattle Pacific, Cornell, Texas Woman’s, Yale, and Air Force. Individuals from Pennsylvania, West Chester, Southern Connecticut, and Centenary will also be in action throughout the weekend.
The national championship event will begin on Friday, April 8, with the team semifinals. …
Bridgeport enters the competition as the top seed after finishing with a regional-qualifying score (RQS) of 194.575. The Purple Knights, which won the ECAC Division II Championship, captured the USA Gymnastics Women’s Collegiate Team Championship for six straight seasons from 2009-2014.
Lindenwood, the host school, is the defending national champions after capturing the title last year in just its third year as a program …
Field Announced For 2016 USA Gymnastics Women’s Collegiate National Championships
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