Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCO7VbdAic1/
There are more like that on the gym_art_ Instgram page.
Category: history
Gabby Douglas – your life’s blueprint?
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I want to ask you a question. What’s in your life’s blueprint?”
Thank you Dr. King for the powerful words and inspiration! Tell me your story #powerofone #justdoit
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Here’s the Facebook version.
Click PLAY or watch African History Month – Gabrielle Douglas Profile on YouTube.
Gabby recently donated some of her Olympic mementos to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Thanks Mary.
new Uchimura book – Eileen Langsley
A legend in his lifetime
A pictorial tribute to the phenomenal Kohei Uchimura
details – Ebook, Apple iPad format £5.99
Eileen shows some sample pages on her website.
Inside Look: Marian Dragulescu
Marian says he’d like to continue competing at least until 2017 – European Championships in Romania.
In our second episode of Inside Look: Journey To The Games we have the privilege to speak with Marian Dragulescu from Romania.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
GymCastic interviews McKayla Maroney
The blockbuster athlete interview of the year, I’d say. Episode 187: McKayla Maroney
McKayla requested a one-on-one with Jessica O’Beirne. 🙂 It’s wonderful to hear McKayla clarify a few things about her amazing career. (She trained Yurchenko double back. Marta freaked.)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Kyla and McKayla, who started together in the same training group, both announce they will not try for the 2016 Olympics the same week. This is tough on fans of the London Olympic gold medalists. 😦
related – Lauren Hopkins – McKayla Maroney Moves On
on Kyla Ross’ retirement from Elite
Reflections are still being posted. Kyla is very popular with fans, gymnasts and teammates.
Lauren Hopkins:
I started writing this but kept procrastinating and putting it off. Somehow, me not writing my goodbye will mean she never left. Right?
If you haven’t heard, it was yesterday afternoon that Kyla Ross – the 19-year-old who made her elite debut in 2009, won an Olympic gold medal three years later, and went on to win five world medals without taking more than a few weeks off – announced her retirement on social media. ..
Saying Goodbye to Kyla Ross
Arabian Punch Front:
What is there to say about Kyla?
Kyla is beautiful.
Her gymnastics is beautiful.
I will always miss her beautiful double twisting Yurchenko where she had a cat like sense of finding the landing. Uneven bars always served as Kyla’s claim to fame where a beautiful Jaeger and floaty double layout earned her a spot in multiple international event finals and even a silver medal at the 2013 World Championships. With Kyla fully extending through her shoulders, I suddenly was able to appreciate a bail to handstand. Something I never thought was humanly possible. …
An Ode to Kyla Ross
We can pretty much assume that Kyla will make more history as a UCLA Bruin. 🙂
related – High Profile Gymnasts React To Kyla Ross’ Retirement
Kyla Ross retires from Elite
2012 Olympic team champion Kyla Ross of Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max, who in the last three years has won five World medals, has announced her retirement from elite gymnastics and the U.S. Women’s National Team.
The youngest member of the Fierce Five that won the team title at the 2012 Olympic Games, Ross continued to compete after the Games and garnered five World, five Pac Rim and six U.S. national medals from 2013-15. …
USAG via email
With World and Olympic golds, Ross ready to follow her heart to UCLA
Read an elite career recap. Thanks Cordelia.
Uchimura montage
highest Jaeger ever?
Charlie Lakes – 1988 US Men’s Olympic Trials. His Tkachev is monster high, as well.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Note he releases with hips NOT extended. The goal is more height, less rotation.
Over on NCAA MEN’S GYMNASTICS ALUMNI there’s a comment that Charles once trained straddle Jaeger with a late 1/1 twist out! I can believe it.
Eastern Michigan goes 196.6
These ladies have been killin’ it. Congratulations on making history. 🙂
The Eastern Michigan University women’s gymnastics team kept up their record-breaking ways today, Feb. 13, in a tri-meet win over Bowling Green and Southeast Missouri State. The Eagles were able to break into the 196’s for the first time in program history, finishing with a huge 196.6 to shatter the old record set Monday, Feb. 8, at Michigan.
“I’m obviously thrilled and extremely proud of the team,” remarked Head Coach Jay Santos. …
“We had a lot of great individual performances, but I think the highlight would have to be Natalie (Gervais) going 9.925 on beam with a gorgeous routine, and Lacey (Rubin) going right after her with a 9.9,” said Santos. …
Gymnastics Coaching.com 