Category: Gymnastics

Introduction to Competitive Gymnastics – Vancouver

Congratulations to coaches who completed our 4 day C1 coaching course at Phoenix Gymnastics, Vancouver.

Competition 1 is the Canadian introduction to competitive.

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Clinicians: Kyna Fletcher, Rick McCharles, John Carroll, Lucas Tiefenbach, Terry Mitruk, Merle Pyke.

Both MAG and WAG were offered.

Fun fact. Phoenix is the Gym used in the Simone Biles biopic. Here’s Jeanté Godlock playing Simone in the film.

Australia’s High Performance Plan

By the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics Games, Gymnastics Australia aspires for its athletes in three of the four Olympic Gymsports – Men’s Artistic, Women’s Artistic and Trampoline Gymnastics – to be podium performers; contenders for winning Olympic and World Championship medals.

To achieve this, GA has embarked on a ten-year strategy …

Gymnastics Australia release High Performance Plan for 2018 and beyond

Michael Reid wants to compete for Jamaica

Michael was the 2015 NCAA Pommel champ for Oklahoma. Now graduated, he has applied to switch national affiliations to Jamaica. World Championships is a possibility. He also hopes to compete a new skill on Pommels.

Listen to an interview on Gymnasticsville.

Japan Championships Apparatus Finals

Vault
1. Ayaka Sakaguchi 13.916
2. Hinako Bundo 13.866
3. Sayana Rin 13.749

Bars
1. Asuka Teramoto 13.933
2. Shuri Matsumura 13.466
3. Nagi Kajita 13.233

Click PLAY or watch Asuka Teramoto’s Bars on YouTube.

Beam
1. Mai Murakami 13.400
2. Asuka Teramoto 13.133
3. Yuna Hiraiwa 13.066

Floor
1. Mai Murakami 14.233
2. Asuka Teramoto 13.633
3. Nagi Kajita 13.400

This might be the Japanese Worlds team plus alternate.

Japanese Men to Worlds

MAGnastics posted a great write-up speculating on the strategy for Doha. China is looking super strong. How can Japan compete?

Taking a Look at Japan’s 2018 Worlds Team

Kohei Uchimura
Kenzo Shirai
Yusuke Tanaka
Wataru Tanigawa
Kazuma Kaya

The younger brother, Kakeru Tanigawa, would seem to be the likely alternate having scored 14+ on every apparatus at some point this year.

Predicted Team Final lineup:

Floor: Kohei, Wataru, Kenzo

Pommel Horse: Wataru, Kohei, Kazuma

Rings: Kohei, Wataru, Kazuma

Vault: Kohei, Wataru, Kenzo

Pbars: Kazuma, Wataru, Yusuke

High Bar: Kenzo, Yusuke, Kohei

Click PLAY or watch Wataru Tanigawa’s Vault on Twitter.

Alicia Sacramone: TODAY is a new day

Heart this on Twitter.

Chow not moving to China

I just found out on Twitter.

Personally I feel both Australia and China need a full-time, resident Head Coach.

(via theGymter.net)

MSU not self-insured

I assumed Michigan State University was self-insured. I assumed they’d pay a half billion dollars damages out of their financial war chest.

Seems some of that MIGHT be covered by insurance.

Engler sees ‘wicked fight’ ahead with insurance companies over Larry Nassar settlement

(via theGymter.net)

Japan names Men’s team to Worlds – update

Kohei Uchimura
Kenzo Shirai
Kazuma Kaya
Wataru Tanigawa
Yusuke Tanaka

 

Here is the first announced Asian Games team:

Kakeru Tanigawa
Kenta Chiba
Shogo Nonomura
Fuya Maeno
Ryohei Kato

Tanigawa was National Champion this year, but didn’t make Worlds.

Update – The Japanese Federation later changed the list stating a scoring miscalculation, Kato was replaced by Hasegawa. Here’s the new list:

Kakeru Tanigawa
Kenta Chiba
Shogo Nonomura
Fuya Maeno
Tomomasa Hasegawa (Revised)