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gymdog on Chalk Bucket Forum asks whether it’s a good idea or not to work Blinds on Strap Bar?

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I left this advice:

It’s an excellent drill … for ADVANCED gymnasts. We used it a lot for Blind, Pirouette and 1-arm giants, back in the era of 1-arm giants. But I’m not sure the girl in the video is ready for the drill, as yet. She should still be spotted until able to show form and technique.

Still doing the drills shown by Mizoguchi in this video.

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Michigan gymnast Syque Caesar @SyqueCaesa has a site called the Men’s Gymnastics Channel.

check it out – Men’s Gymnastics Channel

It’s hosted by ShortForm.com. On that site you can link to your favorite YouTube or Vimeo videos. And put them into the order you want. It’s like a YouTube channel, but more powerful.

Nice.

The only downside I can see is that it lacks an RSS feed. So I’m not likely to go visit unless I see an interesting link mentioned on Twitter.

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Eight all-around champions were crowned at the 2011 Junior Olympic National Invitational Tournament (NIT), held in conjunction with the Women’s National Junior Olympic Championships, at the Long Beach Sports Arena.

The Junior Olympic NIT was developed to allow an additional 192 athletes an opportunity to compete at the national level and features gymnasts who ranked eighth and ninth in the all-around in each of the eight age divisions at the Level 10 Regional Championships (provided they achieved a minimum all-around score of 34.00), plus any Regional individual event champions who did not qualify to the Junior Olympic Nationals or the Junior Olympic NIT in the all-around qualify for that event.

The competition features eight age divisions (Junior A, Junior B, Junior C, Junior D, Senior A, Senior B, Senior C and Senior D), which are determined by age and birth date. …

Complete Results

• Junior A | Junior B | Junior C | Junior D
• Senior A | Senior B | Senior C | Senior D

USAG

Many NCAA coaches attended this meet, including some of the top schools. They know there are good gymnasts in this pool of athletes.

Alabama senior and 2011 Honda Award winner for gymnastics, Kayla Hoffman, led the Crimson Tide to the National Championship on April 16th.

Less than two weeks later she was trapped outside her apartment on 15th street and 6th Avenue in Tuscaloosa when the tornado hit.

Here’s that apartment …

Watch an interview on Gymnastike.

I talked to a couple of the Alabama coaches at JOs. It was awful. … But there’s a bit of an upside in rebuilding Tuscaloosa. Better than ever, they say.

Kayla’s story made Sports Illustrated – Terror, Tragedy And Hope In Tuscaloosa.

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Good idea. Recognition for a good week.

Jaycie Phelps Athletic Center’s Photos – Wall Photos on Facebook.

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Homer Simpson was a High School gymnast, too. 🙂

Opens June 9th at Radio City Music Hall, NY.

Then on to Madrid and Moscow.

An 80-second look at Zarkana by Cirque du Soleil, coming to Radio City Music Hall this summer! For more info, visit: cirquedusoleil.com/zarkana

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Thanks Megan.

This just gets worse and worse.

A paralyzed Chinese gymnast has added sexual abuse claims against her caretakers to her $2 billion lawsuit over Ted Turner’s allegedly broken promise to provide her with lifetime medical coverage. …

Chinese gymnast Sang Lan suffered spinal cord injuries when her head hit the ground during a training exercise at the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York, organized by Turner. She was permanently disabled from the chest down. …

The amended complaint adds claims that Liu and his stepson, Wilson Xue, sexually abused Lan. They unnecessarily bathed her nude and touched her inappropriately, according to a report she says she filed with the Westchester County, N.Y., district attorney’s office. …

read more – Paralyzed Chinese gymnast adds sex abuse claims to $2 billion suit

A new text for coaches from Routledge Sport Science is now available everywhere, contributors including Bill Sands and John Salmela, titled The Science of Gymnastics.

Several people have told me it’s good.

• energetic, physical and physiological assessment
• training principles
• diet, nutrition and supplementation
• growth and development issues
• kinetics and kinematics
• angular and linear motion
• angular momentum
• stress, anxiety and coping
• motivation and goal setting
• mental skills training for practice and competition
• the psychology of learning and performance.

Amazon

It’s available in paperback or ebook for $54.95. From that same Routledge link you can preview some pages free. University instructors can request a Complimentary Exam Copy.

Moscow, having concluded the 2011 FIG World Cup Series with Individual Apparatus Finals, also awarded the following winners of the overall series.

Men
Floor: BOUHAIL Thomas (FRA)
Pommel Horse: SELLATHURAI Prashanth (AUS)
Still Rings: BALANDIN Aleksandr (RUS) and PLUZHNIKOV Konstantin (RUS)
Vault: BOUHAIL Thomas (FRA)
Parallel Bars: PETKOVSEK MITJA (SLO)
Horizontal Bar: ZONDERLAND Epke (NED)

Women
Vault: MUSTAFINA Alina (RUS) and TKALCEC Tijana (CRO)
Uneven Bars: SEITZ Elisabeth (GER)
Balance Beam: DEMENTYEVA Anna (RUS)
Floor: DEMENTYEVA Anna (RUS)

FIG

I don’t think we can call the new World Cup format a success. The main story at each meet was how many of the qualified gymnasts failed to show up.

… But I’d be interested to know how much prize money Prashanth won, for example. It was a success for him.

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