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UPDATE – All Africa Games was competed without Floor Exercise. Organizers ordered a Rhythmic Floor instead of the required Artistic Floor. 😦

Beckett grabs SA’s first gold medal at 2015 African Games

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Kirsten Beckett is back. And won the All Around.

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Congo had to bring in everything to host this major competition. We’d heard they’d accidentally shipped a Rhythmic Floor to the Artistic venue. Looks like that snafu was fixed in time. 🙂

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Single Mom Training For A Spot In 2016 Rio Olympics

Troy Wright linked to this video of Blind Change drills and spotting.

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Balance Beam Situation posted statistics on U.S. Elite Women’s routine composition.

Some of the most popular skills on each apparatus in 2015 are …

BARS – Pak, Straddle Jaeger, Toe-on, Toe-on Full, Toe-on Shaposh, full twisting double back

BEAM – Switch Leap, Aerial Walkover, Layout Step-out, Full Turn, Side Aerial, Split Jump, Sissone, Switch half, Wolf Jump, Double Pike dismount

(Less than 30% use Wolf turn.)

FLOOR – Double Pike, Double Tuck, 1 1/2 Twist, Switch Full, Tour Jete Full, Double Wolf Turn

Click through to Balance Beam Situation for details and trends over the past 4 years.

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The superb JAO YouTube channel has had a name change. It’s now GymTactics Videos: Bounce Gymnastics Girls Team.

Enjoy Jason’s latest tutorial.

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I’ve posted this in the past. But was never sure what competition it was from. Until now.

It was the 1988 Soviet Jr Championships.

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Yeesh! 😦 Who is that guy?

Update – Jason thinks it might be Yuri Yermakov.

… It must be Kolyvanov on Pommels just before the start of the Floor routine.

Thanks Anna.

Recall when people used to say that African American kids make poor gymnasts?

I do.

In the era of Curtis Hibbert, for example. He won the silver medal on Horizontal Bar at the 1987 World Championships. And made 3 apparatus finals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

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Nobody is saying anything like that in 2015.

In the past not many African American kids got the chance to try Gymnastics. Access to expensive sports is still a problem today, but less than in the past.

African American girls like 12-year-old Elizabeth Moore of OSEGA Gymnastics, Miles Avery’s Gym, have role models. 🙂

See Elizabeth interviewed.