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Shannon Miller at GymCon

I really enjoyed Shannon’s Keynote at GymCon 2014.

Amazingly, I had never heard her speech at any time in the past.

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She spoke very fondly of Steve Nunno. …
 

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England’s Commonwealth Teams

As expected, Louis Smith was selected.

The men’s artistic gymnastics squad includes 2012 Olympic bronze medallists Sam Oldham, Louis Smith MBE, Kristian Thomas and Max Whitlock and five times junior European Champion, 18 year old Nile Wilson completes the line-up.

The women’s artistic team is led by European Champion and double Commonwealth Games medallist Rebecca Downie, who’s joined by three of the 2014 European Silver medal winning team – Claudia Fragapane, Ruby Harrold, and Hannah Whelan with Kelly Simm taking the final position. …

The 20th Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow from the 24th July to 3rd August 2014 with 72 Nations taking part in 261 events over 17 sports. …

British Gymnastics

I predict that England, Scotland and Canada will end up on the Men’s podium. Canada, England and Australia on the WAG podium.

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LOVE the Beatles

Attendees of GymCon saw Cirque du Soleil’s LOVE last night. Some also took in a back stage tour yesterday afternoon. Very cool.

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My favourite Cirque show, overall. This must be my 15th visit to the LOVE stage. 🙂

brainstorming the T-Trainer

I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on one of these new mini-tramp / Vault trainers. It’s a brilliant product.

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Basic T-Trainer on sale right now for $764.

Bianca Zoonekynd – Miller

Leigh Hennessy Robson:

How many women tumblers have performed a Miller successfully in competition?

Well, the answer is “at least one.”

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Bianca Zoonekynd is from South Africa. That was a fun competition where she competed against (retired) male tumblers.

Stutz on Parallel Bars

At a men’s coaching camp this week we watched plenty of Lee Wools videos. His are some of the best tutorials on the internet.

Here’s Lee’s most recent. He teaches Diamadov progressions first for confidence in maintaining body position and swinging on 1-arm.

Later the Stutz is learned quickly. It’s more difficult than Diamodov due to the flight phase.

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Lee’s method results in a “swinging” Stutz for a beginner. Later many boys change to a “hoppy” Stutz with earlier release.