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That’s the claim by Rebound. I’d have to agree. The quality of materials is much better than anything else I’ve seen. Lifespan should be longer than any other brand. It’s much heavier than anything else, however.

With the new Mini-Tramp, Dave Ross set out to create a powerhouse: engineer a low flex frame that can safely handle our legendary Bed and Springs. That meant re-designing the frame to be saddle shaped and allow for optimal transfer of athlete speed into height. …

The Dave Ross 2 String Bed is the longest lasting trampoline bed in the world. They are hand crafted and have no stitching in the bed. …

Rebound Products $1300 CAD ($1060 US)

Dave Ross was inspired by the mini-tramp acrobatics of TeamGym. He engineered a mini-tramp that could handle that kind of power yet still be used by regular kids.

Manjak’s Gymnastics is successfully using one with all their Artistic kids. Manjak’s has a number of different mini-tramps.

They use all of them for different Vault drills, for example.

Air-O-Board is closest to a competition Spring Board. You can use it for Yurchenko approach.

The new Rebound produces by far the most power.

Leave a comment if you have an opinion on using mini-tramps for Vault.

Gymnasts we wished had longer careers. 😦

Chatty Gymnast did some research on these fan favourites – THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY: PART TWO

Click PLAY or watch Shantessa’s 2004 Bars triple back on YouTube.

related – Triple Twist – Shantessa Pama- We miss you! (2012)

Canadian trampolinist Rosie MacLennan emerged from teammate Karen Cockburn’s shadow four years ago when she captured gold at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. …

Cockburn, a four-time Olympian, was the defending champion at the 2011 Games and led after the preliminary round, but illness prevented her from competing in the final.

MacLennan stepped up, and a year later she would be celebrating an Olympic title in London. …

Rosie MacLennan, Olympic champion, to defend Pan Am title

Rosie’s in good shape. Karen is back. And Jason Burnett should be there too. All former Olympic medalists.

Click PLAY or watch him on Facebook.

Thanks Jeremy.

Full Twist posted a good summary page – European Games. There’s a link in the navigation column.

Wake up. Drive to Gym. Condition. Train Moors. Drive home. 🙂

Simone posted this amusing edit. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks Nico.

Oklahoma’s head coach K.J. Kindler announced this week that Dowell has decided to take a break from her NCAA career. She will defer for a year to return to elite gymnastics and chase her dreams for a place on the 2015 World Championship team.

“This decision was the toughest choice I have ever made,” Dowell said …

Beam Dreams

Click PLAY or watch her crazy 2014 Bars on YouTube.

Good luck Brenna. 🙂

We are delighted to announce that the FIG Age Group Development and Competition Programme is now ready for worldwide access via the FIG website. The development and distribution of this comprehensive programme has been partially funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since its conception five years ago. In that time it has been introduced around the world in 58 training sessions hosted by 40 countries with 1400 coaches and a similar number of gymnasts from 88 member federations. …

The technical manuals for the FIG Age Group Development and Competition Programme for Men’s (MAG) and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) are now available online in the French, Spanish and English languages. They can be found on the FIG website under Education. …

These manuals will be supplemented with about 400 videos of each component of the physical testing, technical testing and compulsory exercises all of which will be uploaded soon. …

This programme is intended to serve as an athlete centered “recipe” for federations that do not have the expertise or resources to develop their own programmes. They are intended to safely and systematically prepare gymnasts towards high performance below the junior level. …

Age Group Programme now available on FIG website

Click HERE if you’d like to check out the programme. Or to update your old manual.

I’m optimistic that some developing nations, some regions, some continents will offer Age Group international competitions in High Performance Levels 3 and 4 (HP3 & HP4).

baku2015.com has all competitors, all sports in a database linked from their ATHLETES page.

Here’s Komova’s page. She’s listed at 5′ 4″.

After two already, you probably thought Russian nationals were over, right?

As it turns out, this year’s Russian nationals were split into three competitions – the first for seniors in the Master of Sport and Candidate for Master of Sport divisions, a second for juniors in the same divisions, and a third, which happened 25-30 May, for the even younger crowd.

In Russia these are called Levels 1 and 2, for girls born 2003-2004 (Level 1) and those born 2005-2006 (Level 2).

Gymnasts in these divisions compete both compulsory routines and optional ones, with the all-around determined by the total; the event finals operate under new life rules. …

Level 1 AA:
Olga Astafyeva – 04 (37.025, 54.225) 91.25
Ksenia Klimenko – 03 (37.038, 54.125) 91.163
Anastasia Agafonova – 03 (36.6, 53.625) 90.225
Arina Strukova – 04 (35.458, 52.925) 88.363
Darya Belousova – 03 (35.938, 52.2) 88.138
Yelizaveta Sokolova – 04 (35.05, 51.95) 87

Level 2 AA:
Nelli Audi – 05 (38.475, 47.39) 85.865
Ksenia Cheban – 05 (37.125, 47.025) 84.15
Viktoria Listunova – 05 (36.6, 47.325) 83.925
Polina Vavilova – 06 (36.9, 45.4) 82.3
Sofya Korolyova – 05 (36.325, 45.7) 82.025
Maria Beletskaya – 05 (37.025, 44.725) 81.75

Lauren Cammenga – Couch Gymnast – full results and links to (older) videos of some of the competitors.