Category: Uncategorized

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

End of May the FIG will decide whether Worlds will stay in Tokyo October 2011, or be moved due to concerns for the safety of athletes.

World Gymnastics has a nice wrap-up post on the past season:

-Favorite Routine of the Year
-Coach of the Year
-Upset of the Year
-Team of the Year
-Gymnast of the Year
-Freshman of the Year
-Senior of the Year
-Surprise of the Year

see the picks on World Gymnastics

Here’s the Gymnast of the Year:

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

There are plenty of photos on the Facebook Gymnastics the Great Rip Wall!

Smarter coaches and gymnasts take fewer rips.

Some are preventable.

Olympic gymnast and Fitness guru Vanda Hadarean will kick your butt. Check out her adult fitness class.

Click PLAY or watch it on Inspired by Vanda Bootcamp.

The greatest gymnast that ever lived, continues to improve.

At Japanese Gymnastics Championships:

Two-time World champion Kohei Uchimura tallied 94.9, the highest all-around score in men’s gymnastics since the code moved to an open-ended scoring system, Saturday at the Japanese National Championships. …

Get commentary and links on scores on Gymnastics Examiner

That score was boosted by “bonus points”. It could translate to about 93.90 under straight FIG.

related – IG – Uchimura, Tsurumi Lead Japanese Nationals

MostepanovaFan:

Montage of all the NCAA vault champions since 1982, A couple of the early vaults are from a different competition …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

JAO:

This is a promotional video I made for my gym. Obviously, I don’t have a production-company level budget, but I did what I could.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The former UCLA gymnast was stunt double in this TV commercial.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She’s in a second Honda commercial, as well, linked by Aunt Joyce.

Japanese world team member Koji Uematsu suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament while training for this weekend’s national championships.

Uematsu, a member of Japan’s silver-medal squad at the 2010 World Championships, injured the knee landing a dismount from high bar …

The 24-year-old Uematsu was a triple finalist at the 2010 Worlds …

details on IG – World Finalist Uematsu Out with Torn ACL

He’s the guy in Rotterdam who refused to break form, even after getting into this much trouble on pipe.

Respect. And good luck with the recovery.

He’ll be on the same recovery timeline as Mustafina.

Nick Blanton from International Gymnastics Camp sent details on a new event to be hosted at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, PA on August 27, 2011.

Evolution will have a cast of Olympic and world-renowned male and female athletes competing on two eight-person teams. The athlete’s identities will be publicly disclosed soon!

… compete in a nonstop “skill-for-skill battle” backed by a production …

It will include rope climb for speed and single bar for women. I’m thinking it will be backed up by live music. Entertaining gymnastics.

Sounds cool.

I’ll post the names of competitors when announced.

World Gymnastics Federation ‘Evolution’