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After two years of preparation, 26-year old economic science student Lukas Irmler from Germany and 34-year old journalist and author Reinhard Kleindl from Austria, achieved their sought-after goal: balancing on a one-inch wide webbing in a height of 100 metres, right in front of the unique setting of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. …

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Have you heard the term?

Even when I was a trampolinist in the late 1970s we called any multiple somersault with a kick open (crazy, by the way) in the middle a Coca-Cola. I have no idea how that slang got started.

Here’s a good example.

Andreas is awesome.

Though he failed to include his new element (double twisting Kovacs) at the 2014 World Championships, it looks brilliant here in a German League competition.

Thank Tassilo du Mesnil for the link.

Update. Here’s another angle linked by GymFever2012.

Gymnastics is a dangerous sport. We have to do everything we can to prevent traumatic and overuse injury.

Al Fong points out that we ALSO need do everything we can to avoid illness.

Do:
– Eat nutritiously and stay away from junk food, including sodas.
– Get plenty of sleep and rest.
– Practice proper hygiene –wash your hands often, brush your teeth, use deodorant and mouth wash.
– Regularly clean your wrist bands to prevent rips on your wrists.
– Keep your finger nails and toe nails trimmed.

Don’t:
– Drink from the same bottle or share the same spoon or fork with others.
– Spray your mouth from the spray bottle at the chalk tray.
– Lick your fingers or hands as you chalk up during bars.
– Spit on your hands.
– Tear your rips. Instead, neatly clip them with finger nail clippers.
– Workout without properly warming up and stretching.

Do’s and Don’ts

related – Coach Cassie – Healthy & Easy Snacking for Gymnasts: Pre, During & Post Workout Printable

AJ Lovatt.

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The Assembly accepted ten new national federations: Afghanistan (AFG), Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH), Central African Republic (associated member – CAF), Caymen Islands (CAY), Mauritius (MRI), Nicaragua (NCA), Sudan (SUD), Uganda (UGA), Zambia (ZAM) and Kosovo (KOS).

At the close of this 80th Congress 2014, the FIG counts a total of 142 member federations, of which 138 affiliated and 4 associated. Continental distribution is as follows: Europe, 50 members; Asia, 38; the Americas, 28; Africa, 24 and Oceania, 2.

via email from André GUEISBUHLER, FIG Secretary General

To the non-gymnastics fitness community.

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(via gymnastikfabriken)