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Hey, nice move by Best Buy.

If you live in the USA you can apply for FREE movie tickets for the weekend of March 30-April 1.

Peaceful Warrior is based on Dan Millman’s perennially best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives.

In the film, Scott Mechlowicz plays Dan, a talented-yet-arrogant college gymnast with Olympic dreams and a golden future. The athlete thinks he has it all: bookcases of trophies, endless friends, fast rides and disposable relationships.

But all that is about to change.

See the trailer for Peaceful Warrior.

Here are statistics from Google showing the people who check this blog on any given day.

About 400 visit, checking on average 2.5 pages.

I’m quite sure they are the 400 most intelligent, influential, good looking people out there.

Most start on the home page to see what’s new. Then click on something else of interest in the navigation on the right hand side of the page.

Not counted are those who subscribe by email or RSS feed. (Both much better ways to see it.) That would add another couple of hundred visitors.

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We know cheer is the fastest growing acrobatic sport.

And EVERY YEAR Cheer athletes get FAR better and fitter.

Many, many coaches right now need advice on how best to develop the sport.

This is the top selling book on Amazon. Leave a COMMENT below if you have any opinion on it. Especially if you prefer any of the dozens of other new books or DVDs.

The Ultimate Guide to Cheerleading: For Cheerleaders and Coaches

I love the Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious translation of this post:

From today on (March 21) to Sunday (25) take place the Russian Championships 2007 of men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics in the Sports Palace of Lobnya, near Moscow.

At the today’s opening ceremony with a full house – more tha 1,500 visitors (!) – the Olympic champion Alexei Nemov was honored with the high Russian “Order of Peter the Great”, handed over bei Vjacheslav Fetisov, chief of the Russian State Agency for Physical Culture.

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We’ll post the results when available. Russian gymnastics is in resurgence.

More Charlie Tamayo.

Click PLAY, or watch it on Google Video. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=1391660837387985327&hl=en

Good discussion on the Chalk Bucket Gymnastics Community Forum right now.

Topic: gymnasts getting “stale”.

Jump in if you have a strategy or an opinion.

We’re getting ready for states, which means we’re doing nothing but routines, routines, routines. My girls are complaining, because they’re bored with these routines and want to work new skills.

Chalk Bucket – Ok, I’m ready for meet season to be over

From the photographer:

In October ’77, I was invited to photograph Nadia Comaneci during her practice session for an appearance at the Hartford Civic Center.

If you’re old enough, you’ll never forget the multiple perfect 10 scores she received at the ’76 Olympics, which showed up as the single digit “1” on the scoreboard (there was no provision for a ten).

GymMedia reports a good competition, almost a “Junior World Championships” in Berlin.

As expected, the titleholder of last year’s INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR TEAM CUP, the boys from JAPAN, defended the trophy …

The team FRANCE I followed in second place with 247.800 in front of Switzerland (245.700). The competition included the incredible number of 25 teams from 17 different countries!

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I thought pit foam cubes were getting much more expensive due to increased cost of petroleum.

But when I did a Google search for pit foam, I found prices looking very good:

6 inch cube = US$1.05 – Ross Athletic

6 inch cube = US$2.02 – Atafa

6 inch cube = US$.99 to 1.29 – NRA Gym Supply

6 inch cube = US$.86 – DGS

6 inch cube = US$1.10 – Norberts sold by Professional Athletics

Call it $1 / 6 inch cube.

With advanced, bigger gymnasts I actually prefer 8 inch cubes.

8 inch cube = US$2.20 – Norberts sold by Professional Athletics

8 inch cube = US$2.36 – NRA Gym Supply

8 inch cube = US$3.77 – Norberts sold by Opentip

You MIGHT be able to get 8 inch cubes for US$2 each.

I expect the actual price would be higher. There are many other variables when shopping for foam cubes. In the past we’ve always bought the most durable, fire-retardant foam, always the most expensive option.

If you are not in the USA, likely your options will be limited. Shipping is a factor.

If you’ve recently purchased foam, leave a COMMENT below with price / cube.

I like this.

Justin Slife let us know about a new program at his club in California — North Country Gymnastics & the Gyminny Kids — that is gaining popularity.

Extreme Cross Training is a non-traditional gymnastics course geared towards skateboarding, BMX, motocross, wakeboarding, snowboarding, extreme martial arts, hip-hop, and anything else that inverts.

This class is designed to increase efficiency in basic aerial awareness, thus decreasing the chances of injury out on the real terrain.

Classes will utilize our trampolines, tumble track, air track, mini tramps, and overhead spotting rigs. This is a boys only class for ages 8-10 or 11 & up. Students must first pass or test out of our Handstand level.

We got your flip! 1-800-656-FLIP

The (so-called) extreme athletes are reluctant to get coaching. But as “trained” athletes begin to excel in each discipline, more will sign on for classes like this.