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Sho Nakamori had a ring grip break after only 2-days use.

He was lying on the ground after peeling off on a dismount before he discovered what had happened.

The manufacturer is Reisport, as good as any of the competitors, I’d say.

Over the years I’ve seen many Reisport grips break in only a matter of days, but never Ring grips. Horizontal Bar grips normally get stretched and break sooner.

Solution?

Dave Bucci in a comment on Full Twist said this:

NOT unheard of. Our friend, Mario West, had the exact same thing happen at the Winter Cup a year and a half ago — High Bar was his first event, and it happened during warmups. It didn’t injure him badly, but it affected the whole meet.

Since then, he’s been going to a gentleman in Gaithersburg, MD named “Tien” (not sure of the spelling), who handcrafts his grips. Apparently, the Japanese and Chinese national teams both buy from this craftsman as well, and Mario seems to have more confidence in his grips.

Leave a comment if you have any advice on where to get gymnastics grips more durable than Reisport.

Yesterday Andrew Hampy on behalf of Cal Berkeley Gymnastics submitted a business plan for financial viability to their chancellor’s office. It will be 3wks before they get a response.

Gymnastike linked a video from Cal Gymnastics Forever.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13222752&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

2007 Cal Gymnastics from Cal Gymnastics on Vimeo.

Click through to Cal Gymnastics Forever to see what you can do to help save both the Men and Women’s College Teams at Berkeley.

The International Gymnastics Federation has a laughable record for bungling skills named after gymnasts.

In my copy of the code of points they misspell Shavahn Church‘s name. (Some might quibble that she should be listed as British since she competed internationally for England.)

Church Savannah (USA) Hstd on HB – Pike sole circle bwd counter pike reverse hecht over HB to hang

Click PLAY or watch the Church (2005) on YouTube.

Elise Ray has 3 skills named after her on Bars including this one:

Ray Elise (USA) Hstd on HB – Pike sole circle bwd counter straddle-reverse hecht over HB to hang

Click PLAY or watch the Ray (2000) on YouTube.

That brings us to the skill done recently by Tatiana Nabieva …

It’s at 6min 20sec on this YouTube clip from Japanese TV. Or you can jump directly to that skill here.

You could call it a layout Church … if you give it credit for layout. I do.

Hopefully Tatiana will get it named after her good self. Gymnastics immortality.

Aunt Joyce linked to Grace McLaughlin’s Bars from the last Elite Qualifier. She’s from WOGA.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

From Grace Chiu on Facebook:

From Record Breaker to Leg Breaker in a Month

… word around the Hershey Centre is that Jason Nicholas Burnett , Olympic silver medalist who has broken the world DD record 3 times, broke his leg at Pulsars last week while attempting a double side somi sort of par-kour move.

Update. Broken leg confirmed.

On his local TV news.

Click PLAY or watch Nate on YouTube.

Nathan’s been on a hot streak winning the AA at Pacific Rim Championships and dominating Canadian Championships 2010. He wants to keep it rolling through World Championships in October.

(via Gymnastics Alberta)

For Canucks, a rarely offered L3 Trampoline Technical is scheduled Aug. 20-22nd, 2010 in Vancouver. Only a few spots left.

Regis and Kelly are filming out of Charlottetown, PEI in Canada right now.

It’s a big tourism promotion.

But on July 8th this clip was shown on Live with Regis and Kelly:

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Kelly is nearly 40yrs-old. She looks amazing.

(via Aunt Joyce)

American Olympic Coach Kevin Mazeika promotes Gym in a Bag:

Click PLAY or watch the Rockers on YouTube.

There are many more tutorials on the gyminabagboy YouTube channel.

… Pound for Pound the most effective complete body workout equipment ever!!! Less then 5 lbs. more than 500 exercises …

Order at thegyminabag.com . $59.95 for the XBR Rockers, $99.95 for the full Gym in a Bag/

DGS Gym Supply sells them too.

Click through to watch a video overview of ALL the things you can do with the full kit.

Thanks Reiko from GymSmarts coaching videos for the tip.

Apologies. Google flagged this site with a malware warning for a couple of days. After much scrutiny, it turned out to be code I had put on the site myself.

In fact, I’m quite sure that the code was innocent. But better safe than sorry. Once I took off the suspect code, Google removed the warning, concluding this site was clean.