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The 425-acre camp in Haines Township, and its offshoots in Wisconsin and California, along with its brand name and licensing rights, was sold last week to Powdr Corp., an investment group that owns nine ski resorts across the country.

Powdr CFO Jennifer Botter said her company is looking to build more camps both inside the U.S. and in as many as 30 foreign countries. …

Powdr’s interest in the camp was sparked by its purchase of Colorado’s Copper Mountain ski resort, where a Camp Woodward-licensed facility, dedicated to winter sports instruction for youth, opened in 2009.

“We became quite enamored of the people — Gary Ream in particular — and really became aware of what the camp was doing for the action sports industry,” Botter said.

Ream is the co-owner of Camp Woodward and the man behind its transition from a gymnastics-centered camp into an action sports mecca. …

Botter said Powdr agreed last month to purchase a majority stake in Camp Woodward from Ream and a few other co-owners, including Ream’s family members. Care was taken during the acquisition not to disrupt Camp Woodward’s summer season, she said.

Botter did not disclose the purchase price, but said Ream will remain president and his executive team will be retained. …

Firm buys Camp Woodward, vows to expand name

What does this mean for Gymnastics and Cheer?

Leave a comment if you’ve heard anything.

(via College Gymnastics Board)

Links from FIG Communications Manager Meike Behrensen via email:

A total of 505 Chinese athletes from 110 universities will arrive in Shenzhen on August 5 to compete in the 26th World University Games …

China vowed to maintain domination in the Universiade …

More than 12,000 athletes and officials from 180 countries and regions will compete in the Universiade from August 12-23 …

China Daily

For the first time in Universiade history, FISU, the governing body of international university sport, will have live streaming on its TV website www.fisu.tv.

related – Rome, Madrid and Tokyo have announced they will bid for the 2020 Olympics. The deadline is September for any other cities to join the race.

The Airrosti Rehab Centers are a chain with the goal of relieving pain as quickly as possible in order to get athletes back training.

U.S. Men’s Olympic Gymnastics Coach Kevin Mazeika …

To give their gymnasts a competitive edge, reduce lost training time due to injuries, and provide the most state-of-the-art sports recovery care for their athletes, the Houston Gymnastics Academy, headed by the U.S. Men’s Olympic Gymnastics coach Kevin Mazeika, has entered into an agreement with the Airrosti Center.

“The Airrosti treatment provides exactly what we need in our sport – rapid recovery. Whether an athlete has an acute or chronic injury, Airrosti’s goal is synonymous with ours, to get the athlete back to training or competition as soon as possible. Thank you Airrosti!”

Kevin Mazeika – 2004 U.S. Men’s Olympic Gymnastics Team Head Coach

Here’s a testimonial by gymnast turned Olympic gold medalist diver Laura Wilkinson.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2110156&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0

Olympic Gold Medalist Laura Wilkinson from Airrosti.

This sounds great to me. I wish we had one in my city.

Sept. 7-13th, 2011

Avril Enslow linked to the New Zealand WAG rep.

>A surprise scholarship will help a young Christchurch gymnast travel to the Commonwealth Youth Games next month.

Charlotte Sullivan, 13, will be awarded the Anthony Wilding Scholarship for Prowess in Sport …

The $1200 scholarship comes from New Zealand documentary maker Anna Wilding’s charity, the Wilding Foundation. …

“I just think it’s amazing, her determination during earthquake times,” Sullivan said.

“Her goal was to get to the Commonwealth Youth Games and she made it.”

The Press – Charlotte’s on top of the world

Anna Wilding came across and discovered Charlotte quite simply and
serendipously.

Anna was in (an) Art Supply store … when she came across a colour photocopied flyer posted to the bench. The flyer featured Charlotte who was selling chocolates for 2.00 to raise money for her forthcoming trip.

Ms Wilding was touched by the flyer, the tenacity, determination, and hard work shown by Charlotte and of course impressed with her obvious talent.

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The 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games will be the fourth Commonwealth Youth Games which started in 2000. They will be held in the Isle of Man. …

Sports at the CYG

Tricking (short for martial arts tricking) is the informal name of a type of physical activity derived from the martial arts that includes techniques found in gymnastics, B-boying, and similar …

It’s an acrobatic discipline that’s being invented right now. By guys like this.

Flippin The Script! on Facebook:

… Mogwai was throwing outlandishly insane tricks the whole weekend, so I made him a special slow mo edit.

Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.

He doesn’t land many of those inventions. But guts or what?

Romanian Gymnastics expert, Bea, has begun a 5-part series of articles on potential Olympic medalist Larisa Iordache.

The Story of Larisa Iordache – Part 1

The Story of Larisa Iordache – Part 2

Going For Gold posted the 2012-2016 training squad for Great Britain:

back row L-R – Lizzie Beddoe, Ruby Harrold, Jess Hogg, Billie Mackenzie, Ruby Straw, Loriah James…

front row L-R – Amy Sharp, Venus Romaeo, Laura Mitchell and Rebecca Tunney

read the analysis – Britain after Beth

Update from Inky in the comments:

That pic and squad list is from early 2010, I think. It’s the training squad for last year’s junior Euros. A couple of those girls are now retired or have been MIA all year through injury. All of them are technically eligible for 2012.

BG recently issued the new Performance, Potential and Start squad lists. IMO, the ones to watch for 2016 are Gabby Jupp, Rebecca Tunney, Angel Romaeo, Raer Theaker, Abbie Caig, Charlie Fellows, Tyesha Mattis (if still competing?)…

related – Bea on Gymnastics No Ceiling – will there be life (or World team finals) after Beth?

Gabrielle Jupp, Rebecca Tunney, Abi Caig …

Other gymnasts to watch: Loriah James, Raer Theaker and Angel Romaeo.

As a conclusion, the Brits have a fantastic junior team. I think that, even though Rebecca Tunney becomes a senior next year, they stand a good chance of winning the Junior TF at 2012 Euros.

Check the comments on this post for more. Not surprisingly, some strong kids are not mentioned. … 4yrs is a long time hence to be making predictions.

This week British Gymnastics released their WAG World Class Squad lists. See the list on Full Twist.

A few highlights:

On how often he thinks about Kohei Uchimura:

“[Laughs] All day. Every day. I think about his ability and his team’s ability constantly and it’s one of the things that pushes me. And it’s one thing I can’t figure out, how he’s so great every time. And it seems like he’s mastered everything so well at 22 years old that it’s like he literally doesn’t make mistakes. …

On Paul Hamm’s comeback:

“He’s very serious. He came and trained with me for about a week a few months ago. Before he had some big problems [torn labrum in his shoulder], and he was working really well in the gym. He’s already coming back really quick. He’s just one of those guys who knows how to train in any circumstances. Talking to him, I know he’s very, very serious about it. I’m a big fan of Paul Hamm and looking forward to having him back.”

Most importantly:

On how having a five-man Olympic team changes the way he trains:

“Honestly, it makes a very very big difference. Not only for us, but for those selecting the Olympic team. When you have less people on the team and have to compete the same amount of events, it increases the workload on everybody, and if you want to be competitive, you have to go out there and do everything. …

Jon feels that the rules change in 2012 to 5 gymnasts on the team, 4 compete each apparatus, 3 count puts an even greater demand on those who want to be Olympians.

… As if gymnasts needed even greater loads.

Gymnastics Examiner – U.S. Men’s Team Conference Call: Jon Horton, Danell Leyva and Steven Legendre

I’ve never been much of a Chellsie Memmel fan (aside from her Bars) … until now.

She really is a serious contender for the Olympic Team.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODg4NTAyNDk3?related=1

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

related – Gymnastics Examiner – U.S. team calling! Q & A with Alicia Sacramone, Aly Raisman and Chellsie Memmel

Like many others, I’ve been awaiting news on how Christine Peng-Peng Lee‘s (minor) injury was improving. If healthy, I’d call her a shoe-in for the Canadian Team to World Championships. She has many different potential Bar and Beam routines with over 6.0+ start score.

Jenn Isbister:

Gymn.ca: Just a day or two before CBC was due to visit you for a profile piece for their 2011 Canadian Nationals coverage, you injured your knee. What happened, and how is the knee doing?

Lee: I was training on vault doing my new skill Yurchenko double twist and on my tenth vault my knee cap dislocated. I had landed awkwardly on the landing but also the mats were very wobbly so it was a combination of both. My knee is doing really well! I am very happy with how I am progressing we are still cautious with it but I am almost back to full training. I am doing watered down routines for trials but I am happy with where I am today.

I most definitely want to continue to compete Elite for Canada. The goal of going to the 2012 Olympics is what has kept me going during my hiatus. I am following my dream and I want to work hard and stay healthy so I can fulfill my goal to going to the 2012 Olympics in London.

Gymn.ca: What made you choose UCLA, and when will you start? What are you planning to study?

Lee: I chose UCLA because even though I had my back injury and I wasn’t training Miss Val always believed that I was going to come back and do gymnastics. She has been so supportive and I didn’t know if I was going to get any other offer as great as hers due to my back injury. Also, I love the atmosphere at UCLA and how the athletes get treated there, I love it. I will go to UCLA in 2012 because I want to focus on the Olympics that year. I haven’t quit decided what I want to study yet and I’m hoping the year off I will figure out my career choice/path.

read the entire interview on Gymn.ca

She’s simply wild on Beam, capable of near any skill. (VIDEO 2008)

Peng-Peng had the same injury as Chelsea Davis at Worlds Rotterdam.