Category: Gymnastics

Zou Jingyuan’s coach Wang Hongwei

Zou Jingyuan modestly puts this almost Zen-like state down to his coach, Wang Hongwei.

“He is excellent. He coached both Chen Yibing (China’s 2008 Olympic champion on Rings) and Feng Zhe (the London 2012 Parallel Bars champion),” Zou explained.

“In his coaching ideology, the quality of a routine is much more important than its difficulty. Only when the quality of each routine is good enough will he increase the level of difficulty. That is the principle he always insists on.”

Love of Gymnastics fuelling joyful Zou as World Challenge Cup hits China

48TH FIG ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, DOHA (QAT)
25 October – 03 November, 2018

4 Japanese women named to Worlds

Asuka Teramoto
Hitomi Hatakeda
Aiko Sugihara
Nagi Kajita

The fifth will be named after All-Japan Event Championships.

We would expect that to be 2018 Worlds AA silver medalist Mai Murakami who missed some of the trial due to back pain. Some are saying Mai is no longer eligible to be chosen. I’d be very surprised if that’s the case. If she’s pain free in time, I expect her to compete Stuttgart.

Asuka Teramoto won her third title at the NHK Cup women’s competition on Saturday …

Fourteen-year-old Chiaki Hatakeda was third but is too young to qualify for the worlds …

Japan Times

Asuka Teramoto

(Via theGymter.net)

3 Japanese men named to Worlds

Based on combined scores from Nationals and the NHK Cup.

Kakeru Tanigawa
Wataru Tanigawa
Kazuma Kaya

The remaining spots will be named later. Chosen to complement these three.

As Japan has already qualified as a team to Tokyo, they could use Worlds 2019 to test some new faces. But Blythe points out that Kohei Uchimura and / or Kenzo Shirai could still be added.

Forster – Resnick Bars Boot Camp

Tom Forster is busy. But not too busy to join Neil for Bootcamp.

Next up – May 24-26, 2019 Crossville, TN

Details.

IG magazine Hall of Fame 2019

Shawn Johnson
Maria Filatova
Ivan Ivankov
Li Xiaopeng

In addition to the Class of 2019 Inductees, the 2019 IGHOF International Order of Merit will be presented to Hardy Fink (Canada), the Director of Education & Academy Programs for the International Gymnastics Federation, for his 4 decades of leadership and service.

IG

JO Nationals 2019 Indianapolis

This weekend.

Level 10.

12 age divisions (6 senior and 6 junior).

Details.

Shout out for Lindsay Ockler, repping Montana.

Click PLAY or watch the Region 5 HYPE video on YouTube.

NCAA videos on Road to Nationals

Most of the Men’s teams have taken advantage of a NEW feature on RoadToNationals.com.

It hasn’t caught on yet with many of the Women’s teams.