Isabela Onyshko – Commonwealths

Isabela Onyshko has made it through the Canadian gymnastics team’s training camp to prepare for the Commonwealth Games, and now she’s doing her final preparation back home before heading to Glasgow, Scotland, next week. …

The Canadian team is heading overseas a week before the Commonwealth Games opening ceremonies on July 23, and they have a few training days in Glasgow before the artistic gymnastics part of the competition begins on July 28.?It runs through Aug. 1, with the Games’ closing ceremony set for two days later.

The Commonwealth Games will be a very different experience for Onyshko. She has never been on a team like this before nor part of a contingent of athletes participating in various sports in one major competition. …

To help Onyshko, the youngest member of the Canadian team, cope with a different atmosphere, she admits she may be leaning on a pair of Olympic gymnasts on the team, Ellie Black and Victoria Moors. …

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read more – Onyshko fired up for trip to Games

So far, so good for Team Canada. Either Canada or England will win this one. I predict the more consistent team will get to the top of the podium. Fewest falls will win.

GymRep Gymnastics Camp

Week 1 MAG and WAG highlights video from the bilingual camp just outside Montreal, Quebec.

It’s definitely the SAFEST camp I know. The many spotting set-ups are astonishing.

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GymRep.com

Island Gymnastics Academy Camp

I’m in Charlottetown PEI this week, guest coach at the 39th annual Island Gymnastics Academy Summer Camp.

The founder, Jim Rand, is still standing. Still picking off gymnasts one-at-a-time during the Dodgeball warm-up. 🙂

Jim Rand

39yr-old Scott Chandler is back at Camp, one of about 75 gymnasts training week 1.

Scott Chandler at Camp 1988
Scott Chandler at Camp 1988

🙂

Marvel Universe LIVE

… a tour packing Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man and two dozen characters into a family-oriented show filled with fight scenes and explosions.

“Marvel Universe LIVE!” debuts in Tampa on July 10 and will hit 85 cities including New York in August, marking the character licensing company’s most ambitious move into live entertainment. …

Marvel unleashes superheroes for stunt-filled live shows

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marveluniverselive.com

2014 Artistic Worlds Nanning

45th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships – NANNING (CHN), October 3 – 12, 2014

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via IG Forum

why dancers have low ACL injury rates

Kim Shore-Bechard linked to this important video. Must watch.

NYU Langone’s Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (HCDI) performed a study on the biomechanics of jump landing, comparing athletes and dancers to learn more about the incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in both groups.

From this study, HCDI has been able to identify training methods that dancers implement early on that can be useful to athletes who experience a higher rate of ACL injuries than dancers.

To learn more about Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, visit http://hjd.med.nyu.edu/harkness

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

1960’s Slip n Slide

New York Times Magazine has the history of its invention.

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(via Boing Boing)

Japan names Worlds 2014 Teams

2013 World Champions Kohei Kameyama (PH) and Kenzo Shirai (FX) are included. Japan has enough AA fire power to be able to carry both specialists.

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