tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
With a very impressive score in front of a home crowd.
1. Mai Murakami (JPN) 56.532
2. Trinity Thomas (USA) 54.533
3. Melanie Dos Santos (FRA) 53.998
4. Angelina Simakova (RUS) 53.732
5. Elisabeth Seitz (GER) 52.299
6. Aiko Sugihara (JPN) 51.933
7. Victoria Woo (CAN) 48.465
Their most recent skill in French.
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The English translation will be released soon. Paid members (like myself) get access to both French and English versions.
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Like many who heard about it on GymCastic #299, I was wondering what the suit of armour leotard looked like at Regionals.
Kyla Ross, Madison Kocian, Maggie Nichols, Katelyn Ohashi, Brenna Dowell, Felicia Hano, Peng Peng Lee, MyKayla Skinner
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Click PLAY or watch Buttercup on YouTube.
Laurie’s second book drops Oct. 9th. In time for Christmas.
You can tell they are self-taught. 😀
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… Learning from scratch, and with limited human intervention, the digital characters learned how to kick, jump, and flip their way to success. What’s more, they even learned how to interact with objects in their environment, such as barriers placed in their way or objects hurled directly at them.
Gizmodo – After Millions of Trials, These Simulated Humans Learned to Do Perfect Backflips and Cartwheels
In a recent Q&A session Gretchen Kerr, vice-dean of academic affairs at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education talks about her role as a volunteer athlete welfare officer with Gymnastics Canada and her views regarding emotional abuse.
As a psychologist Kerr’s field of expertise is the emotional abuse of athletes which she is using to advocate policy change and influence coach education. …
There is a fine line between pushing an athlete to be their best and maltreatment. That line is crossed when the athlete performs through fear and intimidation rather than their desire to achieve.
In their paper Stirling and Kerr (2008) report that emotional abuse takes the form of physical behaviours, verbal behaviours and the denial of attention and support – bullying, berating, humiliating, degrading and intimidating/threatening are all forms of emotional abuse. …
read more on Warriors In Leotards
Emotional abuse has been little documented compared against sexual abuse.
Coverage for paid PRO members only.
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related – Inside Gymnastics – PREVIEW: 2018 JESOLO TROPHY
