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I’m looking forward to NCAA Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Preliminary team and all-around competition will be conducted in two sessions Thursday, April 16 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The top three teams from each session will advance to the Super Six competition Friday, April 17 at 6 p.m. The top four individuals from each session in each event (plus ties) from the preliminary competition will compete in the individual-event finals on Saturday, April 18 at 6 p.m.

predictions on what teams will qualify to the Super Six

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On Twitter Nastia Liukin linked to this video.

My favorite montage EVER! Thank you to whoever made it!!!!

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A montage of some of the most difficult tumbling passes performed by American gymnasts on floor exercise.

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More like this on the maloneystibiarod YouTube Channel. (637 videos)

Thanks apolytongp.

VIOLA ROADKILL fills in some details.

The most successful gymnastics coach in history is living in a small apartment, starting morning training at 6:30AM in a new world class training venue.

He has about 1000 young students and plans to develop the program over the next 4-6 years.

Having an Olympic gymnast in time for London is a long shot, however.

He’s enjoying himself. Click through for details – Leonid Arkayev – the most terrible punishment – to do nothing

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Coaching in the city of Saransk, Russia, the capital of the Republic of Mordovia.

This was mentioned in an interview with 3-time World Champion Svetlana Khorkina posted in International Gymnast.

circa 1997

Arkayev is the most successful gymnastics coach in history. Has he been relegated to a retirement coaching position?

(via Senor Nico on the IG Forum)

Coach Lisa Adlard sent us a link to an impressive video of school girls doing jump rope at a 2008 US Naval Academy venue. The soldiers loved it!

These girls are the Kings Firecrackers, and they jump as few others have. Team jump-roping is growing in popularity, supported by organizations such as USA Jump Rope and AAU jump rope, with hundreds of competitive teams …

Cincinnati Enquirer 2004 – Firecracker girls skip, jump, dazzle

(Photo by Meggan Booker/The Cincinnati Enquirer)

… USA Jump Rope sponsors various regional competitions and a national competition at Walt Disney World’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida every June. …

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Thanks to British coach Nick Blanton for sending this.

Did you see French gymnast Youna Dufournet? Her horror show Floor Exercise routine at European Championships:

… It’s not disastrous. It’s SCARY. Youna SHOULD NOT be competing those tumbling passes, and it’s downright irresponsible of her coach (who looked nothing except angry at the end of the routine) to let her do so.

She’s going to get hurt — and hurt badly — if she continues like that. I’d love to see the French Gymnastics Federation or the FIG sanction her coach. …

Gymblog

Looks like it may not have been a one time disaster. In podium training and competition at American Cup she was very dangerous on Beam dismount.

I can’t bear to embed either routine on this site. Click through if you want to watch them.

I did send an email about those two routines to Keith Russell of the FIG. Unfortunately his Scientific Commission has no authority to sanction coaches or athletes.

Is the new code pushing this gymnast to do more difficulty than she can safely manage?

photo 2006 – Youna Dufournet

UPDATE: Ellen in the comments mentions a third meet where Youna had problems with her beam dismount. And Ellen, too, blames the coach.

In January we posted that excellent online gymnastics videos from the UK could be streamed FREE.

They’d planned to make it a members only subscription model, “in a few weeks”.

But now in April it’s still free to all worldwide.

Check it out via the British Gymnastics website – BGTV. An interview with Beth Tweddle and her coach Amanda Kirby is featured on the home page.

Right now I’m watching highlights from the British Acrobatic and Tumbling Gymnastics Championships from March 20-22nd.

Blythe posted this on Gymblog.

Markelov full — the first I’ve ever seen — is getting panned because it’s done with very poor form. Nonetheless, it’s a very original, very neat trick.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Gentry from Colorado’s GK gymnastics

Seems every release move can be caught in a different grip to add a half twist.

The obvious connection from this one would be Jaeger.

More videos like this on the Gibson Athletics SaltoCafe YouTube channel.