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Cirque du Soleil is seeking new talent for its current shows and upcoming creations.

The Casting team will be hosting an open audition for athletes in Orlando, Florida, USA on September 5, 2015 for the following disciplines:

WOMEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS (Uneven bars and Floor);
MEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS (High bar, parallel bars, floor and rings);
Trampoline gymnastics;
Tumbling gymnastics;
Cheerleading (Stunt).

details

(via Cirque Casting on Facebook)

It’s for real. 🙂

“The difficult takes time; the impossible just takes a little longer”.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

LIKE the cover on Facebook.

This guy’s got a unique style and some interesting playground acrobatics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Dunno’ about doing Giants on a tree branch!

Thanks Vadim.

… a customized Yurchenko entry mat designed for proper hand placement during the round-off entry.

… This 10″ wide hand pad helps guide athletes in the proper hand placements …

$79

Todd Gardiner likes narrow hand mats for developing gymnasts. (The overturn you see Olympians use is an advanced technique for older, stronger, faster athletes.)

via Gymnastics Coaches Skills & Drills on Facebook

Mary Lee Tracy.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Active flexibility is strength at the end range. This is “dynamic active” flexibility. If the gymnasts holds at the end range it’s “static active” flexibility training.

Mary – of Traveling Handstands – loves the Tumbl Trak Floor Bar.

Me too.

The best feature is the Velcro base. It sticks. And the two pads are great security for advanced pirouetting.

48 inches long, it costs $169.

The documentary on one of the world’s greatest divers all time premieres Tuesday, August 4th 10PM on HBO.

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.

Air Floors are BIG in 2015.

The Sales Manager for GuangZhou Green Inflatable Co. Ltd in China sent me links to their products – GreenInflatable.com.

AIR TRACK ITALIA®, for example, is using them.

Click PLAY or watch gymnasts (of various ability) on YouTube.

European Youth Olympic Festival

Daria Skrypnik became the standout individual gymnast today at the European Youth Olympics, taking a medal in every event – gold in team, all around and bars, bronze on beam and silver on vault and floor. …

RRG – Daria Skrypnik leads Europe’s Youth in Tbilisi

Vault
M Boyer FRA 14.275
D Skrypnik RUS 14.100
E Eremina RUS 14.000

Bars
D Skrypnik RUS 14.850
N Derwael BEL 14.800
A Iliankova RUS 14.700

Beam
A Klinckaert BEL 13.950
M Methuen GBR 13.650
D Skrypnik RUS 12.750

Floor
A Klinckaert BEL 14.100
D Skrypnik RUS 13.900
N Derwael BEL 13.750

Full Twist links to results

related – Russian Women Take EYOF Title in Tbilisi