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USA GYMNASTICS NATIONAL CONGRESS and TRADE SHOW
Held in conjunction with 2011 VISA Championships
August 17-20, 2011
Saint Paul River Centre, Saint Paul, Minn.

Something for Everyone!

… Club Owners, Recreational Instructors/Teachers, Offices Managers, Program Managers, and more!

This year’s event will feature 3 days of education with more than 175 sessions.

Sessions are provided on coaching, judging, business, preschool, school age, fitness and cheerleading. Attendees will also have the ability to learn from leading experts from all 6 disciplines Women’s, Men’s, Rhythmic, Acrobatics, and Gymnastics for All.

In addition, USA Gymnastics is excited to announce 2 NEW offerings to the educational line up! Hands on Spotting sessions and Certification sessions will be offered and included in the price of registration. …

details on the 2011 National Congress and Trade Show

Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

Here’s the preliminary list Topics and Presenters (PDF)

One new session I’d love to see is

Games Warm Ups for Bars – John Carney/Laurie Reid

John is Bars coach at Oregon State.

Prices vary. Check the Registration page to find out the cost to you.
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If your main interest is how to MAKE MONEY at Gymnastics, sign up for the Wednesday National Business Conference. ($150 current Member Club, $250 Non Member Clubs)

Separate registration via the link above.

Congress already has a Business Stream, so the extra Wednesday is BONUS.

I enjoyed this mini-documentary feature in German on 35yr-old Oksana Chusovitina

She’s old. She’s had multiple surgeries. She’s not perfect. …

But she’ll still kick the butt of almost every gymnast in the world on Vault. I’ll be heartbroken if she doesn’t qualify for London, her 6th Olympics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (9min)

At the recent Moscow World Cup:

… Germany’s Oksana Chusovitina won her upteenth career gold on vault, largely based on her difficulty (Chusovitina’s D-score point total was 11.4 compared to Kurbatova’s 10.5). …

Gymnastics Examiner

More than 80 gymnasts competed in the first USA Gymnastics Special Olympics Championships, held May 7, 2011, at the Cobb County Gymnastics Center in Marietta, Ga.

The one-day event featured competition in artistic gymnastics (men, women and unified), rhythmic gymnastics (individual, group and unified) and TeamGym. The competition wrapped up with a gala, which involved all of the athletes.

Gymnasts from 10 states participated …

read more on USAG

Aunt Joyce, still on a bit of a hiatus, posted all 4 routines from (I think) Grishina’s 59.925 Zakharova Cup AA win. Those scores may have the Russian bonus inflation 1.0, I’m not sure.

Click PLAY or watch Vault on YouTube.

See the other 3 apparatus.

Yesterday Antwerp was awarded what I always call the “unimportant Worlds” (2013), the first after the Olympics. The one won by Bridget Sloan, last time around.

The important World Championships are those qualifying for Olympics.

Here’s the Disney themed USA bid for 2015, the meet that will qualify for Olympics in Brazil.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

FIG will announce the 2015 host city Sunday.

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

Two-time Russian Olympian Anna Pavlova won four of five gold medals at the 11th Dityatin Cup, held Wednesday and Thursday in St. Petersburg.

Pavlova, 23, led a Russian sweep of the top seven gymnasts in the senior all-around. Alyona Polyan topped Yulia Lozhechko, a former national team member, for the silver.

Pavlova picked up event golds on every event but uneven bars, which were won by Lithuania’s Laura Svilpaite. …

Russia swept the top four spots in the senior men’s all-around. Dmitry Stolyarov won the title over Denis Ablyazin, Eldar Yunusov and Emin Garibov. …

results and details on IG – Pavlova, Stolyarov Win Alexander Dityatin Cup

I’d love to see Pavlova at Worlds. But Double Front on Facebook is reporting (unofficially) that at Zakharova Cup Women’s AA Final Grishina went 59.925.

Olympic Silver medalist Jason Burnett has done more amazing things on tramp than anyone else in history. … I just wish he’d lay off the tumbling and parkour until after the London Olympics. (He broke his leg doing a double side last year.)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Is it my imagination, or is Jason kicking out way earlier than in his Beijing routine?

Disclaimer: I competed Nationals Trampoline once, 1979. I ranked LAST in both Compulsories and Optionals, terminated on both routines. I’m no expert.

(via Canadian Gymnastics Championships blog)

Canadian T&T athlete Alex Seifert, normally known for his clean form and elegant lines, gunned some more difficult routines at a “no limits competition“.

Four Doubles
Full out, double lay, triple tuck
Full Rudi mount

Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.

via BeastSkills on Facebook

http://www.sicfit.com/embed/NjIxNDgzOTg0?related=1

Visit sicfit.com for more videos

Jim of BeastSkills.com, inspired, tried the same thing on one rope. Is this a kip? Or a fast muscle-up?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

As rumoured, the FIG Executive Committee will “inform the Council” that there are “no travel bans” to Japan.

Therefore, there should be no discussion on whether to move the 2011 World Championships out of Japan.

The other big news:

· On behalf of the Council, the Executive Committee assigned the 44th artistic gymnastics world gymnastics 2013 to the Belgium federation, city of Antwerp.

(via email from FIG)