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Are you getting pumped for the first ever Global Planking Day? More than 10,000 people who like to lie face down straight as a board sure are.

Planking, a phenomenon that started in Australia, is simple enough: “You must always lay face down, ensuring your face remains expressionless for the duration of the plank. Your legs must remain straight, and together with toes pointed.” …

Globe and Mail – Let’s get this straight: All the cool kids are ‘planking’?

Like the official Planking Facebook Page.

It’s just a laugh. Be careful, though. One bloke fell to his death from a seventh-floor balcony while being photographed.

Thanks Kate.

One of my favourite coach interviews, yet.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTkxNDg1ODY1?related=1

Watch more video of Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy on gymnastike.org

related – part 1 of this interview

Tanis Tzavaras and Kelsey Arnold, two coaches from Calgary, have opened their own company distributing grips and wrist supports.

(403) 650-7078
info@gymstuff.ca

GymStuff.ca

The Canadian gymnast Jessica Dowling (16) wants to play for the upcoming World Championships Netherlands. Dowling, daughter of a Canadian father and a Dutch mother, wants to try at the national championships in Heerenveen …

… a “unique opportunity”. “I will do my utmost to me at the Dutch Championship …,” said the Canadian. …

Google Translate – © GymPOWER article with information from the Leeuwarden Courant

She scored 52.867 at Wild Rose. Click PLAY or watch her Bars on YouTube.

(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)

I’m a big fan of this girl. It would be fantastic if she could qualify to compete with the Dutch team. She feels her odds are better than in Canada.

Gymnastike posted a nice summary. It includes a few videos.

This meet, however, had less media coverage than any other nationally prominent competition in 2011.

Why is that?

World Stars FIG World Cup Moscow (RUS) 2011 May 13-14

The best link for WAG final results and videos is Between the Olympics.

Click PLAY or watch the winning Bar routine on YouTube. Check the unusual free hip 1/1.

5.9 8.375 14.275

Jessica Lopez is age-25. And still improving. Watch her Beam from Moscow. (VIDEO)

(via College Gymnastics Board)

Mary Lee Tracy on the benefits of using a ‘form foam’ on TumblTrak.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Full Twist)

Have you seen this document online?

It’s more promotional than informational. All disciplines get a 2 page write-up.

link

Four more all-around champions were determined at the 2011 Women’s U.S. Junior Olympic National Championships at the Long Beach (Calif.) Sports Arena. …

Junior C – Katie Bailey of Kernersville, N.C./High Point …

Senior C – Jessie DeZiel of Rogers, Minn./Twin City Twisters …

Junior D – Charity Jones of Oklahoma City, Okla./Dynamo Gymnastics

Senior D – Georgia Dabritz of Newburyport, Mass./Ace, and Allison Flores of Addison, Ill./IGI …

USAG

Wish you were in here in sunny Long Beach.

… actually, it’s bleak and raining today. Yuck.
… The weather cleared up. Cloudless blue sky. You should be here.

Coming up next:

… Held May 15, the Junior Olympic National Invitational Tournament (NIT), held in conjunction with the Women’s National Junior Olympic Championships, allows an additional 192 athletes an opportunity to compete at the national level.