🙂
Post by Jessica A Savona.
Savona’s home for the summer
🙂
Post by Jessica A Savona.
Category: Uncategorized
European Championships
Official podium pic.twitter.com/hHJPC9ZCId
— 2014SofiaWAGMAGECH (@2014SofiaECH) May 12, 2014
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Our training hall #FestivalnaHall……. pic.twitter.com/SNlHjZLSfA
— 2014SofiaWAGMAGECH (@2014SofiaECH) May 12, 2014
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Moustafina will be one of the most closely watched. Can she lead her young team to a podium finish?
Click PLAY or watch a tribute montage on YouTube.
Aliya’s one of the fiercest bad-asses of all time. 🙂
Grace Williams – Bars
The 2014 women’s J.O. National Championships are history. There were some great performances, as usual.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODk2NzQ1MTk2?related=1&autoplay=false
Watch more videos on Gymnastike
Grace is going to Nebraska.
Nebraska is one of the big winners at JO Nationals this year, with several new recruits emerging or confirming their statuses as potential impact gymnasts. …. Don’t expect a post-Wong, post-Super Six slump for Nebraska in 2015. This is a goo-ood class that should continue bolstering the team’s depth. …
That video comes via Gymnastike’s page of JO results where you can click through to see select gymnasts, select routines. Nice.
Yurchenko 1/2 to double front
Audrys Nin Reyes (DOM) in training. Getting tips from Yamilet Pena, perhaps. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Posted Jun 4, 2013.
(via GymCastic)
Tina Tumbles
Children’s book by Danielle Soucy Mills.
Tina Tumbles is a delightful story which inspires confidence, focus, and perseverance. After watching gymnasts flip across the T.V. screen, Tina wants to do nothing but gymnastics at all hours of the day.
But Tina learns that even a cartwheel is not as easy as it looks. She just can’t land on her feet. Now it’s time for her first gymnastics lesson. Will Tina gain the confidence she needs to complete the skill without falling?
Endorsed by Shannon Miller.
Natsumi Sasada – Japanese Champion
This video includes footage from her 55.950 AA win. Starts with the fantastic layout 1/1 Beam mount.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Amanda Turner:
In the women’s competition, Sasada topped Asuka Teramoto by half a point, 55.950-55.450. Yuna Hiraiwa, 15, placed third with 54.950. Sasada clinched victory with 14.700 for her balance beam routine, which began with a stuck RO, layout full mount.
The Japanese championships serve as a qualifier to the NHK Cup, which will decide Japan’s team to this fall’s world championships and Asian Games. …
Sasada, Uchimura Repeat as Japanese Champions
That link has full MAG & WAG results.
via @ArabianPF_blog
Louis Smith to Commonwealths?
That would be the best “solution” to the media stink kicked up by Mr. Louis Smith.
I’d love to see him there.
… Eddie Van Hoof, Team GB’s men’s artistic head coach, said that although he had been “full of admiration” for Smith since his return, his silver-medal winning pommel horse routine from London 2012 had since been bettered by others in the squad.
“I am full of admiration for Louis’s performances on his comeback, but the rest of the squad have moved on,” said Van Hoof. “We have two-world class performers on the pommel horse in Max Whitlock and Daniel Keating and both have higher start values and potential podium returns than even Louis. …
But Van Hoof insisted that Smith, Britain’s most successful male gymnast in the modern era, was still under consideration for the English team at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow despite his Twitter outburst, insisting: “The door is still open for Louis.” …
Great Britain selectors dismiss Louis Smith claims over omission
___
Update:
I said “Nobody in Gymnastics aside from Louis thinks Louis should be on the GBR Europeans and Worlds Teams 2014.” Seems I’m wrong.
Luke Carson, Theo Seager, Louis himself and others have been posting comments on the Facebook Full Twist Gymnastics page:
Louis makes two main points:
– for Team, if he hits Pommels, his contribution could be significant.
– if on the GBR team, they’d have 3 potential Pommel medalists, not two. Funding is based on medals.
Lucas Carson was disappointed how the announcement was made. He says Louis and his coach were not personally informed in advance.
related – Luke has withdrawn from Europeans.
I'm afraid I have withdrawn from the European championship team, I have withdrawn for personal reasons. Concentrating 100% for CWG if I'm in
— Luke Carson (@LukeCarson23) May 12, 2014
European Championships previews
Couch Gymnast has a series on the top WAG teams.
For example, Italy.
Giuly Holzer:
“We know it is possible.”
This is what Enrico Casella said of his Italian gymnasts when talking about earning a team medal in Sofia at the European Championships.
The Italian National coach has high expectations for his gymnasts going into the meet …
TCG: You set a series of goals for your gymnasts this year, including particular skills, the use of grips, and more releases on bars. Have the girls been successful in working toward these aims?
EC: YES for use of grips and for particular skills on floor and vault, but not yet for more releases on bars. …
TCG: How is Vanessa Ferrari’s health? And what are her aims for these European Championships?
EC: She is in good health and she will fight for three medals.
TCG: Can we expect to see any upgrades from Vanessa?
EC: You can …….[but of course he wouldn’t say!] …
Couch Gymnast – Italy Euros Preview: “We Know it’s Possible”
related:
Euros Preview: Can Great Britain Contend?
Yao Jinnan – Floor / Bars
Yao Jinnan scored 58.700 on day 1 of Chinese Championships. Very competitive with the best in the world, considering that China is not known for over-scoring their gymnasts at home.
Her Floor is quite clean.
Click PLAY or watch her FX on YouTube.
mcsmaria linked that and her 15.7 Bar routine.
NEW – Israeli Gymnastics blog
Looks good.
Here’s a sample:
Israel’s top gymnast, Alex Shatilov, is heading to Sofia as the reigning European champion on floor exercise, and with a high bar final under his belt from Moscow. Sofia is yet another stop on his route to Worlds later this year, and yet another run for a 3rd straight Olympic floor final in 2016, or is it? …
Click PLAY or watch his FX with double full-in, pike out on YouTube.
see more – Spotlight: Shatilov
Could he make the H Bar final at European Championships?
Alexander Shatilov doing amazing high bar combination F+D+D kollman+kovacs+gaylord2
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 