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Yoshi Hayasaki, owner and director of Hayasaki Gymnastics Center, formerly served as Head Men’s Gymnastics Coach at the University of Illinois from 1974 to 2009. …

He is a two time NCAA all around Champion and a former USA and AAU All Around Champion. …

Hayasaki was inducted into the United State Gymnastics “Hall of Fame” in the summer of 2014.

Yoshi’s daughter, Erika Hayasaki, just posted an entertaining and informative history of how her Dad came to America on a cargo ship in 1965. Sick and broke. He could not speak nor read English.

Time – Somersaulting Into America

Another example of an immigrant who made good in the new world. 🙂

Justin Spring and Ivan Ivankov replaced the legendary coach at Illinois in 2009.

Here are most of the top contenders.

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1. Stop comparing yourself to others

5. Say thank you more often …

6. List three good things that happened at each and every workout.

9. Let go of limiting beliefs.

12 WAYS TO BE A HAPPIER GYMNAST IN 2015

Click through for the rest. This is part of a HAPPIER series by Anne Josephson.

Feb 7-14, 2015

CanadianGymWeek.com

November 26-29, 2015

Arena Fyn, Odense, Denmark

World Age Groups – December 2-5, 2015

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About 1500 participants.

(via Brett MacAulay in Trampoline Open Network)

It’s either Skinner or Biles.

Click PLAY or Simone’s double layout 1/1 out on YouTube.

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2014 British U12 and U14 Championships.

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As much as I admire the gymnasts from Great Britain, it’s a mistake to have boys so young competing on the FIG Pommel. I don’t know the rules they are using, but they seem to be pushing difficulty in competition too soon.

We spent time putting these AirWheels to the test in the gym and this is the result!

Outtakes at the end. 🙂

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In Gymnastics? 🙂

No. 😦

In CrossFit.

CrossFit continues to grow in popularity and in large part due to the CrossFit Games appearing on ESPN. Add the support of Reebok and you have a recipe for success.

The CrossFit Games are one of the few events where the men and women’s prize money is equal. The 2015 CrossFit Games prize money will be over $2,000,000.00, a 100 percent increase from three years ago.

The top earners will be the fittest man and fittest woman, both taking home $275,000. That’s more than Mr. Olympia wins in bodybuilding. …

Hard Body

Why is such a new sport able to generate so much more prize money than Artistic Gymnastics?