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Gymnastics Worlds Team Final

Full Twist has a link to Komova2012’s YouTube channel, the Womens Team Final split into 11 parts.

Click PLAY or watch Part 1 on YouTube.

Links to the rest on Full Twist.

Gymnastics 2010 – A year in Photos

Going for Gold posted a nice pictorial. The stars are Team Russia:

Click through to see the rest – Gymnastics 2010 – A year in Photos

Stanford Gymnastics – top 3

If you get sick and tired of the rah rah hype of women’s College gymnastics, you’ll love the Stanford preseason recap video.

It’s so understated, I’d call it humble.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The Stanford girls finished 4th as a team last season with a super smart team strategy. They were the best coached team, I felt.

Why?

It’s so difficult to get into Stanford that the talent pool of potential athletes is small. By contrast, girls with bad grades still get into UCLA and Florida. (Though not Kytra Hunter, so far. She’s trying to improve her test scores to join the Gators.)

As a result, many years Stanford struggles with enough depth to compete against the top teams. They’ve learned to train very safely. And to construct routines to get the highest score possible with the minimum risk.

Alabama and especially Florida gamble with bigger difficulty, and it sometimes costs them.

To me Stanford looks deeper and better than I can ever recall. Kristina Vaculik could win the NCAA all-around, as far as I’m concerned.

Mar. 13, 2010 - Cottbus, Germany - epa02078094 Canada's gymnast Kristina Vaculik in action during the women's final on the uneven bars at the Masters World Cup Tournament in Cottbus, Germany, 13 March 2010. Vaculik won with 14.050 points.

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They’ve lost coach Mike Lorenzen (now at Arizona State) but brought back Tabitha Yim.

… I’m feeling the love for the Cardinal in 2011. Early prediction: Florida, UCLA, Stanford 1-2-3 at Championships.

(Stanford was ranked 6th in the preseason coach’s poll.)

gymnasts scare me

Big tricks. And funny transitions. … Plenty of ‘air guitar’ choreography, if you like that kind of thing.
🙂

Just a silly montage of how rowdy and dangerously awesome these teenage gymnasts are!!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Music: “Teenagers”, by My Chemical Romance.

Dance Moms

Dance Moms is an American reality television series that debuted on the Lifetime TV network on July 13, 2011.

… it is set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the Abby Lee Dance Company, and follows children’s early careers in dance show business along with their mothers, who support them. Dance Moms has been renewed for a second season that will be airing on January 10, 2012 …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Yeesh.

Remind me never to watch that … or any reality TV with the word “Moms” or “Housewives” in the title.

(via gym-nast-iique)

Kathryn Mahoney post-surgery

Many, including myself, have been thinking a lot about Kathryn.

I’ve seen a few rumours, but nothing confirmed. So far.

This was posted, then removed:

Michigan State senior gymnast Kathryn Mahoney (Western Springs, Ill.) sustained a fracture of her C6 vertebra while vaulting in practice on Wednesday, Dec. 29. The Michigan State medical staff confirmed that she has successfully completed surgery to stabilize her C6 vertebra and are optimistically waiting to see how she recovers in the post-operative stage.

I’ve even saw one commenter on Aunt Joyce who said she had some movement in one foot.

I’ll be thinking positive. Ultra-fit gymnasts seem to do much better than average folks when it comes to these kind of traumas.

Happy New Year from FIG

Yet another professional edit from the International Gymnastics Federation.

Their YouTube channel already has 78 videos.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.