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Fabian is training upgrades. 🙂

GYMNASTS selected for Commonwealth Games 2014:

Kirsten Beckett, Claudia Cummins, Bianca Mann, Cameron MacKenzie, Tiaan Grobler, Siphamandla Ngcobo, Siphesihle Biyase, Grace Legote, Aimee van Rooyen, Julene van Rooyen.

Management: Ilse Laing (Manager/coach), Coaches: Tatiana Lavrentchouk-Vizer , Jesse Abraham Kitzen-Abelson

Jesse is an American import, former co-Captain of the Temple Men’s Team.

Congratulations. 🙂

At Canadian Nationals 2014, our best source of day-to-day information was Jared Goad on twitter @jaredvgoad.

Jered guest posted a WAG competition report on Arabian Punch Front, speculating on who Canada will send to Commonwealth and PanAm Games:

Oh Canada!

The 2014 Canadian National Gymnastics Championships ran from May 26th – 31st in the nation’s capital of Ottawa. …

Senior women’s was the highlight event of the week with Olympians Ellie Black and Victoria Moors dueling it out for top spot and newcomers Aleeza Yu and Isabela Onysko chasing them not far behind making it a great battle for the top. The seniors had three long days of competition in a format similar to World Championships with qualification, AA finals, and event finals.

Commonwealth – Black, Onyskho and Moors are most likely headed here. Yu will be too if her injury isn’t too bad. If Yu is out, Merkle will probably take her spot. With the team very strong on vault, beam and floor, they will need someone who can put up a good bar score. Vaculik or Woo could fill this spot. …

NCAA Commitments

Merkle, Woo, Hofland and Casey Carvahlo are all headed to Ohio State, Tsang to Penn State, Douglas to MSU, Chant to Florida, Vaculik and Pedersen to Georgia, and Peterman to Maryland. …

Canadian Nationals 2014: A Recap

Aleeza Yu was injured on Vault landing at a competition as was MAG veteran Ken Ikeda. Once again, I’d urge FIG to study whether our current Vault mats are safe enough. 😦

TEAM CANADA TO BE #CLADINPLAID AT GLASGOW 2014!

image via @Olympics:

This image was taken at the Chinese National Gymnastics Training Centre in Beijing back in November 2009 …

… It only took about ten minutes and three takes and we were done. The girls were so accurate in terms of their timing when performing their moves, that the process of coordinating everyone and ensuring no one overlapped was amazingly straight-forward.

KL International Photoawards: The best of Adam Pretty

Pictured from left to right: Tan Sixin, Sui Lu, Wu Liufang, Chen Shihua, Huang Qiushuang and Huang Huidan. Photo Credit: Adam Pretty)

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Highlights of Aliya at the 2014 European Championships

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July 2014
Saturday, July 12 Concordia University – Mequon, WI
Featured Clinicians are Chellsie and Mara Memmel

Saturday, July 19 Adrian College – Adrian, MI
Featured Clinician is Daniel McCarty

Saturday, July 26 Gannon University – Erie, PA
Featured Clinician is Steve Roney

Clinic topics include:

Handstands – Of Course!
How did Bars end up on Floor?
Reshaping the backyard Cartwheel!
Everything UNDER the Bar!
Take the Boring out of BEAM Basics! & Much Much More

Just $45.

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Yeesh.

Hideously difficult.

(via Greg Roe)

… gymnasts and artists from Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France, Belgium and Hungary … The basketball dunks are performed by the awesome stunt team called Lords of Gravity from Hungary.

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Thanks Hal. Thanks Debbie.

Dr Joshua Eldridge gives a quick overview. (PDF)