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Wordsmith went again this summer to the Forster Bar clinic. This time TumblTrak was there filming.
Click PLAY or watch a promo clip on YouTube.
… It got pretty funny too when, as a running gag between Resnick and Forster, they’d mention the Tumbletrak namebrand in an overexaggerated, obvious manner whenever they needed to move Tumbletrak mats and equipment in order to teach and demonstrate stuff. …
details on TumblTrak
The sport of Swinging Rings is alive in Switzerland.
At Gymnaestrada there were plenty of Swiss athletes who could dismount double back (or more). I watched the new World Record, within some random Guinness time frame (750 seconds).
… 78 gymnasts, including three woman, took up the challenge and performed 790 somersaults (dismounts) in the required space of time. It was a great success. They even have exceeded the requirements for the record and will now enter the Guinness Book.
Click PLAY or watch a Bird’s Eye view of the World Record on YouTube.
… the gymnasts had to go out with a double somersault and land on their feet without using their hands, and not fall. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
see more routines on Gymnastics – No Ceiling – Favorite moments of 2010 – The best floor routines
Linked by Beast Skills on Facebook.
The water fountains featured in this clip is one of the BIGGEST highlights for many of the kids.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I tagged along with the Nebraska girls when coach Dan Kendig and team visited the show in Orlando before Nationals in Florida. Kathryn got inspired, that evening, to audition. 🙂
With her college gymnastics eligibility exhausted, the All-American performer was finishing her advertising degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln when she got a call from Cirque du Soleil, the Canada-based circus company with shows on six continents.
The company had an opening in Macau, and two weeks later, Howard was in China training for her new role.
Read more on the Journal Star – Husker gymnast now performing in Macau
Hoo hoo. I just got tickets for Cirque OVO playing Sept. 7th in Calgary.
Volker Minkus has been the official photographer of the International Gymnastics Federation since 2002.
He has about 14.000 watermarked photographs on minkus-images.de/en.
But here’s a much better way to see some of his best pics.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
Sang Lan is happy with the court case that she finally has medical coverage outside of USA. USAG admit that the accident was not Sang Lam fault. Previous USAG and others claim that it was Sang’s fault. Sang and her lawyer has settled the claims brought against USAG and insurance companies.
Click PLAY or watch a Chinese TV news clip showing the letter from USAG.
How can an athlete be not at least partly responsible for over-rotating a Handspring Front timer?
I don’t understand this out of court settlement, at all.
Search this site for “Sang Lan” if you don’t know the backstory.
… synchronised skydiving with a difference – performed by four men inside a wind flight simulator in Prague, Czech Republic.
Their impressive two-minute show in the Skydive Arena finishes with a brilliant pay-off as they calmly leave the chamber like four men exiting a lift. …
Alberto Fuertes of Volare Freefly, Håvard Flaat of Skywalkers and Raphaël Coudray and Julien Guho of Team4Speed. …
Daily Mail – Who needs gravity? Impressive synchronised skydive video shows amazing performance in flight chamber
Click PLAY or watch them on YouTube.
That’s Norwegian electro-pop band Casio Kids.
Thank Jessica for the link.
I love simple drills like this for the little ones. (Forward limber I can live without, though.)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 