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RICHELLE SIMPSON was the 2003 NCAA All-Around & Floor Champion for Nebraska.

She was back in Lincoln to be honoured at the inaugural University of Nebraska Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony, followed by recognition during halftime of Saturday’s Nebraska-BYU football season-opener.

Simpson is in her ninth year performing for Cirque du Soleil and year seven entertaining at Treasure Island’s Mystère. …

“I never thought I would be there this long, but it’s so creative and so energizing,” Simpson said. “We have many people who have worked for the show for many years, including two or three who have been here since we started. …

The Art of Perfection: Simpson ‘Fit’ Nebraska

It’s gratifying to see the SoCal group so proactive in trying to save and build collegiate men’s gymnastics. 🙂

Shelli Koszdin posted an interview for Stick it Media:

… Long a hotbed for men’s gymnastics talent, the Southern California area has been without a intercollegiate program since the demise of UCLA’s storied program back in 1994. Aside from Stanford and Cal, Southern California high school graduates have had to venture out-of-state to participate in men’s intercollegiate gymnastics.

Along came Schulmeister, a men’s club coach at Torrance’s Studio West, to found an exciting new collegiate club program in Southern California. SCU is an interesting amalgam of student-athletes, attending various junior colleges and universities throughout the area. …

SM: About how much capital did it take to get this team started? How much to keep it running for each year?

Heinz: Startup costs in the 1st year were about $45K. We were able to raise about $30K. So out of pocket about $15K, give or take a few.

If we keep everything as is, we are looking at an average of about $60K­$100K per year. But we need to look ahead and make sure the coaches that currently donate their time are eventually paid. Having our own training facility is being planned as we speak. …

SM: Have there been other attempts to follow in the footsteps of SCU?

Heinz: We have certainly made an impact: Sacramento State is working on having a team. Also, there will be the New York Alliance. Based on the email I received from Brockport’s head coach, they are planning to bring together several small college teams from the New York area to create another D2 team. …

StickItMedia Exclusive Interview: Heinz Schulmeister

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The best coaching videos in 2015, overall, are produced by Gymneo out of France.

I joined Gymneo English day 1 – October 25th, 2014. Since that time they’ve added English versions of their existing French content on a regular basis.

The newest skill translated to English is Tsukahara.

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details on Tsukahara (1hr 40min total)

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Thanks Kim.

Gymternet:

The Tkatchev, named for Alexander Vasilyevich Tkatchev, is also known as a reverse hecht. At its most basic definition, it’s done from a back giant swing, involves a release backwards and over the bar, and is caught again on the other side. Where it gets interesting is the entry (i.e. from a stalder, inbar, toe-on, or clear hip instead of a giant) and then the body position in the air (i.e. straddle, pike, or layout). Here’s a handy chart I made to help with the variations.

	Straddle	Pike	Layout
Giant	Tkatchev (D)	Piked Tkatchev (E)	—
Toe-On	Ray (E)	Church (E)	Nabieva (G)
Clear Hip	Hindorff (E)	Shang (F)	—
Stalder	Ricna (E)	Downie (F)	—
Inbar	Galante (E)	—	—

That’s from You Asked, The Gymternet Answered 61st edition. Of the fan sites, The Gymternet is most valuable for the WAG coach.

Update – George sends the link to the 2013 sporteverywhere edit of Tkachev releases.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

In training. Jacob thinks this video was taken around 2012.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

(via @GymCastic)

The South African city of Durban has been selected as the host for the 2022 Commonwealth Games at the Federation’s general assembly in New Zealand on Wednesday.

The coastal city was the only bidder for the multi-sports event after the Canadian city of Edmonton withdrew from contention in February, citing falling oil prices …

Guardian

Unfortunately Durban did not include Gymnastics in their bid because they had no suitable venue. Durban Gymnastics coach Jesse Kitzen-Abelson says Gymnastics can still be added. My guess is that it will.

UPDATE: Over on the private Gymternet Clan Facebook group, there’s much discussion on that topic. The proposal in the works would require Commonwealth Games to include 16 mandatory sports, one of them Artistic Gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch a bid video on YouTube.

Zou Li Min was swept off rocks by a rogue wave. 😦

Mr Zou was well known in the Canberra gymnastics community, having trained senior gymnasts at the Woden Valley Gymnastics Club.

In a statement the club said members had been deeply affected, and sent condolences to Mr Zou’s wife and two children.

“This tragedy has deeply affected everyone at the club, particularly coaches and the senior boys and girls competitive training squads,” the statement said. …

ABC

Zou Li Min was silver medalist on Horizontal Bars at the 1985 World Championships. He’d been coaching in Australia since 1993.

Rest in peace.

VAULT

On vault, the big news is the fact that the Yurchenko layout full (a round-off onto the board, back handspring onto the table and a layout with a full twist) and Yurchenko layout-half have been devalued to start from a 9.95 …

… vaults that are still valued at a 10.0 start value. For example:

Front handspring pike-front half

Tsukahara (cartwheel or half turn entry directly onto the table) layout full or layout half (or Phelps, 1/2 turn to Front Layout)

Yurchenko or Tsukahara tuck 1 1/2

Omelianchik (round-off half turn to front pike) and Podkapaeva (round-off half turn to front tuck 1/2)

Tuck or pike Luconi (round-off backhandspring with a full twist on, back tuck/pike off)

Pike Ilg (front handpring onto board, front pike off)

Handspring 2/1 twist

Click through to College Gym Fans for more.

Originally I’d heard Y 1/1 would not be devalued until 2017. But this document states it will begin January 2016.

Nothing is ratified, as yet. There could be clarifications yet to come.

In my opinion Handspring pike 1/2 is the easiest of the remaining 10.0 vaults.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via College Gymnastics Board)