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The best quadruple twisting layout I’ve seen on Floor was from Michigan’s Kent Caldwell, who used it to win the Winter Cup new skills challenge in 2007.

Click PLAY or watch a Quad on YouTube.

… Leave a comment if you know of a better one on video.

What’s Kent up to now?

Find out in an exclusive Stick It Media interview

Spoiler – At World Championships can see him in ZED™, a Cirque du Soleil show based in Tokyo.

related – KentCalwell.com (online portfolio of his gymnastics artwork)

related – Getting to Know… Kent Caldwell (VIDEO)

by site editor Rick McCharles

I’m looking forward to speaking at the Renmore Gymnastics, Ireland, year end gymnastics shows.

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That’s part of my visit to the club June 18th-22nd.

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Update. I’m also leading a one day coaches workshop in Reykjavik, Iceland, Sat. June 11th.

Contact Gummi Brynjólfsson for details.

At the Frivolten Cup in Sweden, after the competition some jumpers take part in the Two Trick competition.

What two mad skills in combination will get the knowledgeable crowd to react?

Click PLAY or watch Finals 2011 on YouTube.

The “winner” was Canadian Junior Jake Cranham.

Thanks Brett.

Big news in the Great White North.

Elvira had both the Junior and Senior Champion at Canadian Nationals 2011.

And now she’s departed her club of 18yrs to open a new gym.

details – Saadi resigns from Kips

(via Gymnastics Examiner)

Watching this made me laugh out loud.

Li Jong Ae’s bar routine from the 1982 Asian Games

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Shared by International Gymnast Magazine on Facebook.

… Coach Ed Burch shows gymnastike a drill he uses to teach and perfect BIG tkatchev releases. His gymnast shown in the video is Tory Wilson who competes a tkatchev immediate gienger combination on uneven bars.

Burch was the coach of 1992 Olympic High Bar Gold Medallist Trent Dimas.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzY3NDk0ODUy?related=1

Watch more video of Tory Wilson on gymnastike.org

Svetlana Khorkina:

”To this day I thank God that he gave me Pilkin. And it’s not because we won so many titles and medals together. He and I travelled a 20-year path on the edge of risk (what is gymnastics without risk?) and I never had a single injury.

Coaches often try and force training and bam!- there is an injury. All girls are different. Some have growing bones, others a weak back, and others still react in their way to over training. You have to be very careful to reach peak form. And absolutely with an individual training regime.

Grandpa had his second heart attack defending my rights to an individual workouts in front of head coach Leonid Arkayev.

So, here I am, my arms and legs and back are all healthy. And I have a son….

That’s from an excellent Couch Gymnast post – Lessons from the Russians

Boris Pilkin died last year, age-82.

Good drill from Gymnastics-Skills.com

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’d add this to this group of drills helping kids learn how to rotate: Gainer, Cody, … and (perhaps) Kaboom.

A drill so simple, it works.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Tony Retrosi gets credit for inventing The Gymnastics Minute, by the way. It was his idea.

A new gymnastics movie starring Eddie Peng is scheduled for release in Taiwan and mainland China this August.

In Mandarin.

The Storyline of the movie:

Ashin grows up in a small town at Yilan. He joins the school gymnastic team at an early age. In order to become a national player, he never gives in to hard trainings. However, Ashin gradually loses his way in rebel time. He gives up gymnastics and joins the gang with his best friend, Pickle…

… read more on Chinese Gymnastics Blog