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Don Eckert posted this challenge from Level 10 Championships:

These are the many of the best dismount from nationals in Dallas TX 2010. I got many but not all and would like to hear from you on the best.

Click PLAY or watch the contenders on YouTube.

Leave a comment on the YouTube page if you can decide which dismount was “best”. They are tagged with numbers on screen.

Awesome.

… “I will be at Classics and definitely shooting for VISA Championships in August. I know a lot of people are hearing mixed things about our Olympic Team, who is coming back, who is not, but I’m for sure training,” Sacramone told UniversalSports.com. …

She’s training Beam and Vault. And must qualify at CoverGirl Classic in July in order to get to VISA Championships.

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She’s got something to prove.

… “The beam was the easiest thing to get back. Vault was a little bit more difficult because I had shoulder surgery, so getting the strength back to support myself was a little bit hard. I’m working on floor, but I don’t know if that’s going to happen this year. Maybe next year, we’ll see.” …

“Right now it’s one year at a time. Staying healthy, staying happy, and loving my training is most important to me right now. I already went through the hardships and now it’s more fun for me because I have nothing to lose.”

(via Gymnastics Examiner and Full-in Full-out)

Another excellent and interesting Spanny Tampson montage on Big Fake Smile.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Dream On …

JO Nationals Flashback: Training Day

… let’s take this opportunity to take a look back at the most exciting meet of the club gymnastics season, the level 10 Junior Olympic Nationals.

Here’s an inside look at the training day from this year’s JO’s in Dallas. …

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

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Shout out to Cara, a former gymnast and coach from my home gym.

She’s featured in this month’s Natural Muscle magazine.

link (opens one of those virtual magazine pages)

You might be interested in the current Gymnastics Canada planning document. … LTAD, for all participants, all programs, all ages, all ability levels. That’s over 200,000 participants!

Eight Stages:

1. Active Start
2. Fun, Fitness, and Fundamental Movement Patterns
3. Building the Skills of Gymnastics
4. Specialization in a Gym Discipline
5. Becoming a Consistent Competitor
6. Winning at All Levels
7. International Excellence and Podium Performances
8. Gymnastics for Life/Active for Life

… includes six different competitive disciplines – Men’s Artistic
Gymnastics (MAG), Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG), Rhythmic Gymnastics (RG), Trampoline
and Tumbling Gymnastics (TG), Aerobic Gymnastics (AG) and Acrobatic Gymnastics (AcG). …

Gymnastics Canada – Long Term Athlete Development (PDF)

© Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique 2008

It’s more setting out goals of the Federation than actually “planning”. Gymnastics Canada disciplines plan based on this document.

The most popular sporting competition anywhere is the FIFA World Cup of Football, starting June 11th in South Africa.

Stakes are high.

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by site editor Rick McCharles

Each year after the Canadian Championships we schedule an advanced coaching clinic. In this session the current National Coach Vladimir Lashin does a brief overview of release moves and dismounts on Bars.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

I tried to edit this into some kind of a “story”. But the clinic really was like the video, just a skimming of target skills.

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The demonstrator in red is 9yr-old Shallon Olsen from Omega Gymnastics Academy, the most talked about gymnast at the meet. Everyone was asking: “If Shallon does this much difficulty at age-9, can she survive to age-15 when eligible for Sr. competition?

One of the lone voices to opine that big difficulty at a very young age is not necessarily a guarantee of burnout was Miguel Constante, one of the very best coaches in Canada. He feels it’s a tremendous advantage long-term, if the athlete can avoid injury and loss of motivation.

more video of Shallon training

… Is she cute, or what?

Do you have a swim up bar?

Valeri Liukin does.

Nastia calls him “King of the Grill“.

Shout out to coach Mark Moncur and his team. I spent a couple of weeks in Tasmania a few years ago, hanging out at the old gym.

It’s great to see the dream come true.

A multi-million dollar state gymnastics centre has been officially opened south of Hobart.

The new facility boasts state of the art equipment and is used by 1,500 gymnasts weekly.

Centre manager and gymnastics coach Mark Moncur hopes the centre will produce Tasmania’s first olympian in the sport.

“What it provides us is the opportunity to allow gymnasts to fulfil their dreams, so they can go from recreational level right through to olympic level,” he said.

“We now have a facility in Tasmania that will allow gymnasts to fulfil those dreams.”

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