Category: Gymnastics

Donnell and Pommels

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Division III Gymnastics teams are growing

via Greg Marsden

Ksenia Klimenko – Bars

Jr Russian Champion MS division.

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Marisa Dick – the tattoo

Marisa had the judging symbols for her eponymous skill inked.

 
via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

crisis management at the Gym Club

Tony Retrosi posted some tips:

In my experience, those who overcome the gym’s inevitable crises have three basic principles in place.

  • First, they have a strong and varied network of trusted advisors.
  • Second, they avoid panic and instead break the necessary responses down into component parts.
  • Third, they maintain flexibility, knowing that even the best plans are going to run off the rails.

HANDLING A CRISIS IN YOUR GYM

Uchimura wins 10th straight national title

Kohei Uchimura earned his 10th straight national individual all-around championship on Sunday, edging Kosuke Tanaka by 0.05 points for the landmark win.

In his first competition since winning the team and individual all-around gold medals at last August’s Rio Games, Uchimura settled for fourth during Friday’s qualification phase. …

“My motivation was down like never before after qualifying, but I could recover today. …

The win sees Uchimura continue his unrivalled all-around winning streak to 39 in all tournaments home and abroad, which includes the Olympics and world championships — where he has won the last six times. …

Japan Times

(via @GymCastic)

all hail Mai Murakami

Japanese Championships AA
1- Mai Murakami 56.45
2- Aiko Sugihara 54.45
3- Nagi Kajita 53.8
full results

Vault
1- Sae Miyakawa 15.000
2- Mai Murakami 14.800
3- Soyoka Hanawa 14.550

Bars
1- Asuka Teramoto 13.950
2- Hitomi Hatakeda 13.800
3- Aiko Sugihara 13.550

Beam
1- Mai Murakami 14.000
2- Shiho Nakaji 13.550
3- Soyoka Hanawa 13.350

Floor
1- Mai Murakami 14.150
2- Sae Miyakawa 13.850
3- Aiko Sugihara 13.550