inflatable Gymnastic Air Floor

Now this would be fun.

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Note the video does not show many landings.

Force elastic surfaces are great for take-offs, not nearly so good for landings. I’d use landing mats to absorb impact if I was lucky enough to use one of these.

What’s the price?

I don’t know. You’d need to email my friends at Eurogym in Belgium to find out. 🙂

info (a) eurogym.be

Huang Huidan’s new Bar dismount

via GymScoop.com

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Here’s her Gold medal winning routine at Worlds 2013.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (15.400)

Tatiana Groshkova – 1990 Floor

Double full-in, tuck out.

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Queen E:

This is the best video of this outstanding floor routine that exists to my knowledge. Groshkova has never competed at World Championships; her light shone all too briefly when she won a silver medal at 1990 Europeans. …

Tatiana trained at Moscow Dynamo where her personal coach was Elvira Saadi …

The genius of Tatiana Groshkova

The only other female gymnast who competed it, that I can recall, was Alexis Brion (1995) from Excalibur. In pike.

countdown to Worlds 2015

The greatest gymnastics event on Earth is coming to Scotland. Glasgow will play host to the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships from 23 October until 1 November 2015, where over 500 of the world’s best gymnasts will compete to become World Champion.

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Seventy-two countries have registered to compete at this fall’s World Championships in Nanning (CHN), the first step toward team qualification for the Rio Olympics.

The top 24 teams from Nanning will advance to the team competition at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow (GBR). …

FIG – first flips toward Rio

European Champs: GBR, RUS, UKR

@theallaround is LIVE tweeting from Sofia, Bulgaria #EChSofia2014

The preliminary round of Men’s European Championships in completed.

1 GBR 267,067
2 RUS 264,304
3 UKR 261,277
4 BLR 260,161
5 FRA 259,779
6 NED 258,661
7 GER 254,627
8 ROM 254,054

Top 8 go through to the Team Final. Congratulations.

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full results (PDF)

Surprises: weak showing by German team advancing only as 7th to team final and only Hambuechen on high bar in event finals.

Strong performance by Dutch team. First time they advance to team finals. Also qualified to vault, parallel bars and high bar event finals.

Biggest surprise 2 Armenians in a very strong rings final!

ECh official

@LEEWOOLLS:

GBR juniors would have qualified for the Senior Team final

Epke qualified to the H Bar final 0.7 ahead of 2nd place Hambuchen.

Finalists often up their difficulty to try to get on the podium, however.

Larissa Miller – Bars

Larissa Miller topped Bar qualification yesterday at the Australian Championships with 15.100 (6.1 D). …

Full Twist

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Australia’s going to want that routine at Commonwealth Games.

Also, Lauren Mitchell’s BB & FX. (VIDEOS)

Australia is the defending Commonwealth Champion in Team. But they’ve got much stronger competition in 2014 than last time in India.

Couch Gymnast – Australian Nationals: Qualifications & Photo Gallery

acrobats in OVO

Former Olympians now performing on Cirque du Soleil’s show OVO tell us their stories.

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via Cirque du Soleil Casting Newsletter

related – Talent Scout Stacy Clark will be presenting at GymConUSA 2014, Las Vegas June 16-18 along with The Beatles: LOVE Head Coach Dan Niehaus.

Ellie Black profile

For a gymnast who “came out of nowhere”, Ellie not going away anytime soon. She’s still improving. Still upgrading.

Ellie was 4th AA at 2013 FISU Games, 13th AA at Worlds 2013. Don’t be surprised to see her move up at Worlds 2014.

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Click PLAY or watch Ellie training her newest FX routine on YouTube. She’s using yet another line that’s never been competed before MAG or WAG. 🙂

“Nowhere” is Halifax Alta Gymnastics, by the way. Coaches Keiji Yamanaka, David & Crystal (Gilmore) Kikuchi.