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Athletes are preparing to travel to Denmark for the World Trampoline and Tumbling Championships. The Olympic qualifier for Tramp. Two of the World’s best talk training.

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related – Rosie MacLennan relives the London 2012 Trampoline final GOLD. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Brett MacAulay)

I’d been excited to finally see this new film.

But the latest trailer turns me off. Nothing but F-bombs. How many little kids are going to be shocked clicking PLAY to see something about Gymnastics?

Watch it here, if you like.

I’d seen the Janssen-Fritsen 20cm wide Beam at Worlds one year. But here’s the first one I’ve seen in the wild. 🙂

A competition Beam is 10cm wide.

I’d love to try a wide Beam with a generation of girls training in conjunction with different “springy” Beams. Making tumbling easy for beginners.

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It works for tumbling. Why not Beam? 🙂

No doubt making the final transition to the high competitive Beam would be the biggest challenge.

A teammate of past Canadian great Nathan Gafuik, who’s now retired, Kevin won his region’s 2015 Athlete of the Year.

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Click PLAY or watch his 2014 Commonwealth Games Final routine on YouTube. Tak 1/2 to Def.

Kevin and team Canada will be fighting for one of the top 4 spots at the Rio Test Meet.

For Tseko Mogotsi, the city of Odense (DEN) will always be the city of Trampoline and Tumbling. It was at the 2001 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships in Odense that Tseko Mogotsi and his South African teammates won the World silver medal in Men’s Team Tumbling, South Africa’s best-ever World finish in the discipline. …

What was your favorite skill to perform?

Tseko Mogotsi: “Double back salto to punch double front. I learned this skill by accident actually. The idea came during the Indo Pacific Championships in Japan 1995. I could not fit my eight skill pass on the tumbling track and came up with an idea to do 7 skills and a punch front as the last skill. The punch front just showed incredible potential that I started working on the double punch front.” …

Mogotsi: “There are three tumblers who made an impression on my tumbling, particularly because they were innovative:

• Rayshine Harris (USA) – The first to compete three double straight saltos in one pass.

• Alexander Kryjanovski (RUS) – The first to compete full in triple salto.

• Vladimir Ignatenkov (RUS) – The first to compete double straight with a quadruple twist. He was also very fast and powerful. Great to watch.” …

FIG interview – Tseko Mogotsi (RSA)

Romanian blog puzzlegym has a report on the 2015 Junior Nationals.

… a slight improvement on bars happened during the recent years. Partly because of the introduction of grips but mostly because of the special attention the apparatus has got, the girls improved on form and execution, some even approaching new type of skills and combinations.

Still, the progress is hardly visible because of the new symptom of Romanian gymnastics: inconsistency. …

Bars

Click PLAY or watch Olivia’s Bars on YouTube. (2000-2001 division) No free hips. That’s a start. 🙂

Last year there were 3 high school football player deaths in 3 weeks. 😦

Football is a far more dangerous sport than Gymnastics in so far as catastrophic injures are concerned.

This young man is alive.

He was worried, however, first first day of pre-season:

“The combination of how hot it was last week, the two football practices in one day and dehydration caused my muscles to start to break down and release a protein into my blood stream which shut down my heart, my liver and my kidneys.” …

Apple Watch saved Centerville teen’s life

In the future we’ll have smart devices monitoring all sorts of health stats.

The Gymnastics Federation of Saudi Arabia hosted a Level 2 Academy for Men’s Artistic Gymnastics (MAG) on November 4 – 11, 2015. Such Academies for Artistic Gymnastics are almost always organised with men and women together. The first such MAG-only Academy was a Level 3 hosted in the USA in 2007 and the second was a Level 1 hosted by Saudi Arabia a year ago. This was the 210th Academy in the FIG Academy Programme. …

FIG

A special thanks to Ebrahim Alabdali, our organizer. Translating back and forth English <> Arabic is good study methodology. Brahim had the highest exam score.

Additional photos. Some staged. 🙂

Course leader Chris Evans had discussions with Saudi Olympic Committee consultants.

Recall that Saudi Arabia entered 2 female athletes in the London 2012 Olympics: Judoka Wojdan Shaherkani and 800m-runner Sarah Attar.

Of course FIG would love to see female gymnasts represent the Kingdom one day.

Via Chris Korotky and Inside Gymnastics by email.

Olympian John Roethlisberger and Inside Publications Team Up for Sports Radio Show, Drive To Gold™

– Weekly Show to Originate on Atlanta AM Station WCFO, Newstalk 1160, The Talk of the Town

– Show Will Focus on the Olympic Movement

– Additional National Distribution through Webcast and Podcast

Drive To Gold™ will debut in December and will air each Tuesday. Advertising opportunities within the show include traditional recorded spots (30 second and 60 second spots), live spots, as well as sponsored segment opportunities.