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You will have to see this to believe it.

Amazing 7-year-old Indian roller-skater Aniket Chindak:

“The wonder-kid, who started skating when he was 18-months-old, is now training for four hours a day and plans to break his world record of 57 cars with a 100-car skate in New Delhi.

“I first saw a girl skate under a car on TV two years ago and decided to learn how to do it myself. It took three months before I could get my body in the right position,”

“Since then, I have skated under lots of cars and have never hurt myself. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Scott Bird on Straight to the Bar)

Dangerous?

Not as dangerous as what these kids do in Peru:

(via Boing Boing and A Welsh View)

Gymnastics Saskatchewan in Canada has a great position advertised. International applicants welcome.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

CANADA GAMES COACH
FULL TIME or PART TIME

Under the direction of the CEO and the Technical Director, the Canada Games Coach shall be responsible to provide technical and coaching support for the development of high performance athletes, act as coach of coaches, and plan and deliver high performance team programs which will enable Team Sask male and female athletes to improve performance and placing at future Canada Games and national level competitions.

We are seeking a leader, strategic and visionary thinker, and an effective and skilled
competitive coach with experience in program implementation and administration for the
development of elite athletes and coaches.

• Level 3 certification in artistic gymnastics
• Proven success coaching competitive and elite athletes in men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics
• University or related education in physical education, coaching or related field
• Excellent communicator and organizer
• Strategic thinker
• Capacity to create and catch vision
• Successful team builder
• Catalytic leader

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

Full time professional position available for qualified/certified candidate who can coach both
men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics. Three year contract to 2011, with the possibility of extension to 2015 and beyond.

Half time positions may be available – one for men’s artistic, one for women’s artistic. A complete job description is available upon request.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Gymnastics Saskatchewan offers an excellent group benefits package, monthly RSP
contribution, vacation time, and flexible working hours.
Employment start date is negotiable.

APPLICATIONS

Please apply with a detailed resume, three references and your salary expectations to:

Klara Miller, CEO
Gymnastics Saskatchewan
1870 Lorne Street
Regina, SK S4P 2L7
306-780-9229 (B)
306-780-9475 (F)

kmiller @ gymsask.com
and c.c. to gymnastics @ sasktel.net

PS

I worked 2yrs for Gymnastics Saskatchewan (over 15yrs ago). It’s a quality organization. A wonderful, little known part of the world.

Rick McCharles

A shocker:

Australian coach Peggy Liddick said officially Dykes was just taking some time out to deal with motivational issues.

“I spoke to her in December and she just needs some time to think about things,” Liddick said.

“I’m meeting her (in Canberra) this week to see how she feels after having a couple of weeks out of the gym.”

But Hollie’s mother, Julie Dykes, said her daughter had quit the sport for good and was not just taking a break.

She said she was prevented from going into details about the reasons for Dykes’s departure because of a legal contract with the Australian Institute of Sport.

Liddick said at this point she would not even be attempting to convince Dykes to come back.

“She has to convince me that she wants to do it – that’s how it’s going to work,” she said.

“I’m not going to force anyone to go to the Olympics. …

Gymnast Hollie Sykes quits before Games | The Courier-Mail

Hollie is clearly one of the best gymnasts in the world. I’ll be very interested to hear her reasons for giving up before Beijing.

(via difficulty plus execution)

Gymnastics on wheels. I love these converted buses.

Price: $20,000
Condition: Excellent
City: Lexington, Kentucky

A unique gym on wheels for sale. 1992 Int’l 390. Designed in jungle motif, including special paint and wall carpet. Extra thick cheerleading floor pad to insure safety for children. 2 round swings, monkey bars, slide, rock climbing wall inside, zip ride, mini tramp and other fun activities. 2 roof top air/heat units, diesel generator

Unique Tumble bus for sale | Sports Classifieds – Gym Chat

I’ve tried the “trampoline bike” at Woodward West Action Sports Camp.

Fun. But dangerous. (If you land on top of the bike on the trampoline.)

This looks a better, safer version:

photo by Bryce Shaw

Click PLAY or watch the video on YouTube.

More video and details on Jumpclub.

Tom Beach once again has Tammy Biggs on the homepage of Gym Smarts, the world’s #1 distributor of gymnastics videos.

No surprise, she’s a favourite clinician of most everyone who has seen her present.

Develop and Strengthen the Most Important Shapes that Affect All Events

What are the critical basic elements for developing gymnasts? In this DVD Tammy Biggs explains the body shapes necessary for gymnastics. She shows the candlestick, bridge development, and chest roll, moving into and out of the positions, shaping the body and shoulders and then conditioning to strengthen these shapes. This is lecture was presented at all the regional and national congresses and one of Tammy’s most popular lectures. It’s great for staff training and development.

GymSmarts videos

No arguments here.

Great choices:

Inside Gymnastics magazine is pleased to present the 2007 Gymnasts of the Year Awards, based on readers’ votes placed at InsideGymnastics.com.

Gymnast of the Year, American Female – Shawn Johnson

Gymnast of the Year, American Male – Jonathan Horton

Gymnast of the Year, International Female – Jade Barbosa (Brazil)

Gymnast of the Year, International Male – Fabian Hambuechen (Germany)

Click through for details. Next edition of the magazine will announce more award winners.

News – Inside Gymnastics Magazine

Our favourite tabulator of competition scores Stu Cram of Gym Score Depot is trying to retire. (We insist he cannot.)

Stu emailed:

Free Software for Results & Forms at Gym Meets

GymScoreLite’08 (Macintosh and Windows)

– Excel workbooks for men’s and women’s competition
at a club level (no teams or combined scores)

– Easy entry of gymnast info and scores

– Automatic calculation of ranks and ties

– Latest GCG forms for judges’ sheets and chits

– Many extras (audience lists, big numbers, etc)

– Special score sheets for BC and Sask beginner levels

– User’s Guide included

Link: gym-score-depot.ca/software/

Other software available includes the older but full-featured GymScore 2000 (Mac OS9 only, Men & women, teams, combined scores), and TrampScore (Excel) for beginner club meets in T&T.

Let the computer scoring people you know know about this great offer. User guide included.

Tyler Hass of RingsTraining.com emailed:

… the final production run of Classic Elite Rings is finished, I am putting them on sale for $50 a set. This offer is valid while supplies last. First come, first serve. Once they are gone, which shouldn’t take long, they will be gone forever.

Sale details

If you pick up any set of rings, consider adding on an “agility ladder”.

Click through to see a video explaining how it works:

For the month of January, if you buy a set of rings, you can use the coupon code “ringsladder” to purchase an Elite Agility Ladder for $30 (40% off).

Elite Agility Ladder

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If you’ve been following the evolution of the B.A.S.E. jumping wing suit, here’s the best article yet.

By Matt Higgins in the New York Times:

Jeb Corliss wants to fly — not the way the Wright brothers wanted to fly, but the way we do in our dreams. He wants to jump from a helicopter and land without using a parachute. …

Jeb Corliss

Extremely dangerous. We’ll see many deaths as this technology improves by trial and error.

Click through to see video:

Flying Humans, Hoping to Land With No Chute – New York Times

(via Team Geared Up)