Don’t try this over home. 🙂
.. I just jumped over my house with the help of a few friends and a Russian swing. …
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(via Storm Freerunning)
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update on Gymnastics in the Philippines
The Philippines has finally ended a 10-year gold medal drought in gymnastics at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP) president Cynthia Carrion said yesterday the breakthrough came through the efforts of a homegrown athlete who did the country proud in Singapore.
Reyland Capellan, 21, captured the gold medal in the floor event and added a bronze in the vault at the recently concluded SEA Games. Fil-Am Ava Verdeflor, 19, delivered a silver in the uneven bars and led the women’s team to a bronze. The harvest was a far cry from the single gymnastics bronze that the Philippines took at the 2011 SEA Games in Indonesia, courtesy of John Nathan Monteclaro in the rings. Before Capellan’s feat, the Philippines’ last gold medal in gymnastics came from Roel Ramirez in the vault in 2005. …
(via Cordelia Price)
SLIP | @PhillipChbeeb & Renee Kester
40th birthday Gymnastics celebration
Scott Chandler will take to the gymnastics mats just one more time, a day after his 40th birthday and three decades after first appearing in competition.
He’s even organized his own event so he can say he competed into his forties.
“I’m the only guy out there that’s losing his hair I can tell you that,” Chandler said with a laugh, “and the only guy out there that doesn’t have an eight-pack under his tights.” …
It’s also the 40th birthday of someone named Oksana.
Unlike Scott, she’s no quitter. 🙂
(via Grace Chiu)
Aliya Mustafina – Beam
Québec gymnast Félix Dolci
The most talked about male Canadian gymnast this past season was too young to be allowed to compete at the Canadian Championships.
He was barely old enough for the Canada Winter Games finishing 2nd AA against most of the best of the rest in the country.
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Félix was one of our demonstrators at the coaching course following Nationals. Turns out he’s a normal kid. Fun loving. Of his many talents I was most impressed by aerial awareness. For example, for fun he did on Rings: Backward uprise to support, Koste (back salto) from support with triple twist.
Beam – 2 back springs to triple full
Jr. International Elite Gabby Perea does her 2 backhandsprings to a triple full beam dismount with a Go Pro to give you the Gymnast Eye of the skill.
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Legacy Elite had a great season. Their best ever, I believe.
Men’s “Elite Gymnastics Challenge”
Uncle Tim linked to an announcement of a start-up reality TV show featuring a competition between four male gymnasts. Special rules will be used.
A guy named Christopher Leavitt is the contact. They are inspired by X Games, Ninja Warrior and Rob Dyrdek’s Street League Skateboarding.
Click PLAY or watch a promo on YouTube. It was filmed January 4th, 2015 at Gymstreet USA/
I wish them luck. Sooner or later someone is going to figure out how to market gymnastics to a wider audience.
European Games Men’s highlights
AirTrack Factory – Netherlands
The Dutch company is starting to distribute and market in the USA. There are many things I like about inflatable mats. But none of those things are included in this demo video.
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Have you guys seen this, to me it looks like an accident waiting to happen by encouraging kids to practice big tricks at home on their own AirTrack …
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