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Mary-Anne “Mez” Monckton is an entertaining guest gymnast on GymCastic episode #147: 2015 European Championships.

Here she is working a new release connection.

… Hunter was named the 2015 Honda Sports Award recipient for gymnastics, designating her as the top collegiate female gymnast in the country.

Hunter also won the award as a freshman, making her only the second female gymnast in the last 15 years to win the award multiple times.

She was the first Gator gymnast to ever win the award in 2012. Florida has now had three of the past four Honda Award recipients — Bridget Sloan won in 2013. …

Alligator

The Honda Sports Award acknowledges athletic achievement as well as scholastics and community involvement, and is given to female athletes in 12 different NCAA-sanctioned sports throughout the year. Each Honda Sports Award winner is recognized as the top collegiate female athlete in her sport, and the award is considered by many as one of the highest honors a female college athlete can receive in the nation.

In honor of Hunter winning the award, American Honda Motor Co., Inc., will donate $5,000 to the women’s athletic program at the University of Florida. …

Gator Zone

Trampoline Pundit:

An amazing coincidence: Precisely 50 years later, film of the 2nd World Trampoline and 1st World Tumbling Championships has been discovered. On January 30, 1965 the event was held in London at the Royal Albert Hall and now film of the momentous occasion can be shared with the world.

It was uncovered recently by a retired school teacher who found the film reel in his attic. As an enlisted man in the army, he was given the canister by the base’s film projectionist. The recently retired projectionist wanted to put it in the hands of someone with an interest in trampoline, so he gave it to the future educator, who stored it all these years.

Ted Blake and George Nissen, the competition’s sponsors, had commissioned the 25 minute, 16 mm film to promote the sport of trampoline. …

In the film, you don’t just see the great routines of the Champions of the day – Judy Wills, Gary Erwin, Frankie Schmitz, Wayne Miller, Beverly Averyt and more, but tumbling fans finally get to see the very first World Championship tumblers! …

Film History Uncovered: 1965 World Trampoline & Tumbling Championships

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (25min)

For complete competition information, results, participants and routines go to the Trampoline History Blog.

Umme Salim-Beasley (ooo-me) has been hired as Temple University’s head women’s gymnastics coach, announced Vice President and Director of Athletics Kevin Clark on Thursday. Salim-Beasley has spent the past four seasons as an assistant coach at Rutgers University, and was named the East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) Assistant Coach of the Year in 2014. …

In her four years at Rutgers, Salim-Beasley served as the recruiting coordinator for the Scarlet Knights and worked with the uneven bars, among other day-to-day duties for the program. …

Owl Sports

She was a gymnast at Hill’s. Competed for West Virginia University before becoming an assistant coach at Penn.

The main advantage of this product is its quick installation and deflation.

Connect the inflators and your floor is ready for use within a few minutes …

It can be easily stored (folded dimensions of the floor = 153 x 120 x 90cm … and can be transported in the back of a small van.

This inflatable floor establishes itself as the natural first choice for all your workshops and on-the-go demonstrations.

Once inflated, it will remain inflated for several days without using the inflators. A gauge allows pressure monitoring and this can be adjusted simply thereby creating the rebound and stiffness of the floor to suit all your training needs.

details (not sure of the cost)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The main disadvantage, of course, is trying to land on a force elastic surface. Difficult and potentially dangerous.

Air is great for takeoff. But I’d like the athletes to be landing on force absorbing mats on top of the Air Floor.

(via Nick Blanton)

Here’s the controversial routine from Super 6 Team Finals. It clinches the Gator’s win over Utah.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Would you have gone 9.95?

Maybe not. But Balance Beam Situation felt – overall – that Florida had a slightly stronger meet than Utah. Overall.

That’s how if felt to me sitting in the stands too. In the absurd scoring system used in College Gymnastics, a close meet can always go either way.

Dave:

… what desperately needs to be done, IMMEDIATELY, is to allow all judges to throw half tenth deductions, at all meets, all the time.

Also, require an extra judge on the panel, at least at post-season meets. These simple, behind-the-scenes fixes will eliminate the endless, silly ties (25 people in vault finals), without changing the scoring system one bit. …

Click PLAY or watch Bridget Sloan’s 9.95 Bars on YouTube. For comparison.

2014 NCAA PH Champion and Nissen-Emery Award winner 2015, Ellis Mannon from Wisconsin, unfortunately fell in the 2015 Final.

Click PLAY or watch one of his hit routines on YouTube.

Note that he wears no wrist supports. And it’s nice to see a routine with significant difficulty in Flare. More gymnasts should use flares.

Based on the true life story of California gymnast Ariana Berlin (Ana Golja).

As she zoned in on her Olympic goals, 14 year old Ariana Berlin’s life took a sharp turn when she was involved in a debilitating car accident.

Gaining her confidence and movement back through learning hip hop dance, she unexpectedly found herself called back to the gymnastics world thanks to world renowned UCLA Coach Valorie Kondos Field (Jennifer Beals).

With Val’s help, Ariana was eventually able to secure a spot on the UCLA gymnastics team and win an NCAA championship …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

via @arianaberlin

From wrist surgery.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via gymnastikfabriken)

Cirque ‘Special Events’ has a new show playing this summer at Expo 2015 Milan, Italy.

Allavita! is the evocative title of this new exclusive production that will be presented during the Expo and will include the participation of over 50 Italian and international artists. This performance for the Universal Exposition of Milan 2015 will be set in a spectacular open air theatre from May 6 to August 23, 2015.

Cirque

Click PLAY or watch a preview on YouTube.

Thanks Tom.

related – new Cirque arena show November 2015 – TORUK – The First Flight, inspired by James Cameron’s AVATAR. (VIDEO teaser)