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Also known as Cha Yong-hwa. Outrageous 2009 routine from the North Korean.

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Trinidad and Tobago gymnast William Albert Gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Gymnastics Invitational, Perth, Scotland.

This really strengthens his chances to qualify to Commonwealth Games.

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Thanks Ricardo.

Guy Lavoie and myself were volunteer clinicians in Barbados and Trinidad.

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FIG:

Two days after completing an FIG Follow-up and Monitoring Camp for the Age Group Development and Competition Programme in Barbados, the two assigned FIG experts started a similar camp for Trinidad and Tobago on April 13 – 15, 2014. ..

The FIG Age Group programme includes a testing and monitoring programme for Men’s (MAG) and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) physical abilities and technical skills as well as a complete competition programme with modified optional rules for age-group gymnasts and compulsory exercises for all ages. It also includes a variety of additional information related to developing a systematic gymnastics programme that can lead to high performance. …

Trinidad and Tobago host an FIG Age Group Camp before Easter

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Both camps were excellent. Caribbean nations have potential to quickly develop in gymnastics sports. As Panama has done.

Shout out to Trinidad for a best ever international performance shortly after we left:

Trinidad and Tobago gymnasts Marisa Dick and William Albert both earned podium finishes at the 2014 Commonwealth Gymnastics Invitational, which took place at the weekend in Perth, Scotland.

Albert, a 23-year-old based at the University of Iowa, won gold in the rings (13.900) while Dick picked up three medals – gold on the uneven bars (13.200), silver on the balance beam (13.300), bronze in the vault (14.050) and bronze in the all around competition (72.950).

The Invitational also served as a test event for the 2014 Commonwealth Games …

Commonwealth Gymnastics medals for Albert, Dick

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Though both grew up in Canada, both will be back for Trinidad and Tobago National Championships June 6-8th, hoping to qualify for Commonwealth Games.

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CONGRATULATIONS to all competitors who qualified. And good luck. 🙂

The 2014 Women’s Junior Olympic Level 9 Western Championships, scheduled for May 2-4, will be held at CenturyLink Arena in Boise, Idaho, and 388 gymnasts are expected to compete. …

USAG

2014 Women’s Junior Olympic Level 9 Eastern Championships is scheduled for May 2-4 at the Bradenton (Fla.) Area Convention Center, and 388 gymnasts are expected …

USAG

Jim Holt has been assisting the Indian Men’s Team. I was keen to hear what’s happening in India.

The Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI) has been a disaster over the past many months. Despite the internal problems, the gymnasts have made some progress.

… 2010 Commonwealth Games and Asian Games medallist Ashish Kumar won two gold medals for India, female gymnast Dipa Karmakar bagged the other yellow metal.

While Asish bagged his gold medals in his pet events — men’s floor exercise and vault, Dipa’s yellow metal came in the women’s vault. …

India wins 7 medals in International gymnastics event in Perth

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results

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@ Osijek 2014

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One of our favourite gymnasts.

Noemi Makra (HUN) Uneven Bars @ Osijek 2014

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See some GREAT pics of our World Champion on Gymnastike.

GREAT WW edit by Jason from Gymnastike. One of the best ever. Some cool video angles. It helps to have so many strong gymnasts to shoot, of course. 🙂

This weeks Workout Wednesday, we take look at a regional championships preparation workout from one of the top producing gyms in the country Southeastern Gymnastics. Southeastern is located outside of Charlotte, North Carolina and has a long history of great gymnasts in the JO and college arenas. We filmed this workout on April 1st, two weeks before the Region 8 Championships.

… features many 2014 JO National Qualifiers including UCLA verbal commits Grace Glenn and Anna Glenn, University of Michigan commit Maggie O’Hara and LSU commit Julianna Cannamela all of which have qualified to the upcoming JO Nationals.

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Flyaway 2 ½ twist at 6min 40sec.

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Thank Gymnastike for not putting Workout Wednesday behind the paywall.

related – Jason’s Gym Recruit – College Gymnastics Marketing website. He offers websites and video help for gymnasts looking for an NCAA scholarship.