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The BEST of many good Beam routines at Westerns was Haley de Jong from Flicka competing in the NOVICE Age Group division. She scored 15.900 from a 17.5 start score (including bonus). Next highest in her division was 15.5 difficulty.

That was prelims.

I was ready for her Finals routine. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

Not quite as HIT as prelims. She competed layout layout series in that routine. But still wonderful. Meaningless as this probably is to you, her Finals score was 14.40 from 16.70 start, with bonus.

Western Canadian Championships 2014

FINALS – Novice Division

Update: On Floor Haley competed …

Triple Twist
Double Pike
1 1/2 to 2/1 twist
Double Tuck

Great story.

Kristi Marks sends this video. At a young age Sam was diagnosed with osteochondritis dissecans (OCD), formerly called Little Leaguer’s elbow. She cannot put much weight on that one elbow.

She loves gym and refused to give it up. Today she’s a 2 event specialist, Beam and Floor. Sam’s won floor at every meet she entered this year.

Have you ever seen 1-arm round off double back before?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Sam Gourley is now looking to continue her career in the NCAA. Contact me if you know a team that might be interested in learning more about her.

Combined results: Physical Ability + Optionals + Compulsories

1. Evan Fedder BC 90.200
2. Toby Cairns AB 90.050
3. Kai Iwaasa BC 89.750
3. Gabrielle Romano AB 89.750
3. Noa Happy AB 89.750

6. Noah Royer SK 86.500
7. Kai Doree AB 86.000

Unofficial results for the top 7 of 19 competitors. Our computer scoring system cannot handle combining Physical Ability scores.

Here are the scores NOT including Physical Ability.

Combined results: Physical Ability + Optionals + Compulsories

1. Elijah Thompson AB 179.450
2. Antonio Fernandes AB 169.510
3. Treyson Cerrato BC 166.730
4. Austin Kruger AB 164.750
5. Caleb Richardson BC 161.970
6. Ashton Kotlar SK 160.500
7. Ares Federici AB 159.830

Unofficial results for the top 7 of 14 competitors. Our computer scoring system cannot handle combining Physical Ability scores. (I’m copying this out from a dead tree version.)

Here are the scores NOT including Physical Ability.

This ranking is NEW for this season. Most MAG coaches are generally in favour of the new system, but agree that there are a few bugs yet to be worked out.

2014 WESTERN CANADIAN GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN

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Click PLAY or watch one of Elijah’s P Bar compulsory routines from earlier this season on YouTube.

Elijah actually had a very poor meet, for him. He’s planning to go back to the gym and reassess his preparation for this one.

The apparatus that most impressed me at Westerns was Beam.

Click PLAY or watch this cool mount on YouTube.

That’s Courtney Biever from QCK Gymnastics, Regina.

Front half? Or aerial round-off?

She’s previously competed front tuck or front pike mount.

MUST see.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks Krista.

Former club teammates. 🙂

Indiana gymnasts Bridget Sloan and Samantha Peszek were two of the six Americans who competed for gold against China at the Beijing Olympics, and came away with silver. …

“Elite can be very stressful,” Sloan said. “You’re vying for a spot on a team of six with 16 other girls. It’s definitely tough. Coming to college kind of made me realize that gymnastics is fun again.”

Hoosier Olympic gymnasts continuing their careers in college

Elizabeth Grimsley:

Already, 63 gymnasts a part of the class of 2016 have verbally committed to a collegiate gymnastics program, according to the College Gym Fans recruiting database. Two of those commits are twin sisters Anna and Grace Glenn who verbally committed to UCLA Dec. 29, 2012 when they were just 14 years old. …

COLLEGE GYMNASTICS RECRUITING AGE GETTING YOUNGER

Grace Glenn and Anna Glenn, identical twin sisters from Charlotte, N.C.

They train at Southeastern Gymnastics in Weddington, N.C. under coaches Ludmilla Shobe, Galina Meliakina and Georgiy “Egor” Grebenkov.

Seems to me the NCAA needs more stringent rules about early recruiting.

National Open (26 competitors)

1 Breanna Franklin 52.550 SK
2 Charlie Wright 51.950 SK
3 Mackenzie Parker 51.600 AB

Bre Franklin, the all around winner at Gymnix 2014, led her Saskatchewan Open team to a win in front of an enthusiastic home audience.

see FULL RESULTS all levels
MAG & WAG

Update #3

Gymnastike has reworked that archive footage into a documentary.

Gymnastike has been deleting critical comments on their Facebook page. Still no “official” response to the backlash.

Update #2

Jason:

When a video is embeded onto Gymnastike it is done in a way that when viewed the particular youtube video channel’s video is getting the views as well. Gymnastike doesn’t download videos then upload them as their own.

Gymnastike has a lot more traffic then most youtube channels (as you can imagine) so they are actually getting more views then they would simply from youtube traffic.

Gymnastike doesn’t steal videos or do with them differently then other blogs. The site has a video uploading and filing system that enables videos to be put on the site via uploading or embedding in the same format. I assure you all videos that are not created by Gymnastike Staff are all embedded and function just like a youtube video.

That’s cool. That’s a win, win for the person who produced the original content. And for Gymnastike.

Gymnastike does produce and own their own videos, of course. With those they can do as they like. I’ve “submitted” a number of videos to Gymnastike over the years, always happy with how they are managed.

My wild speculation is that the experiment of Gymnastike purchasing archive footage rights for competitions previously on TV is not a good idea. It’s likely going to cause more ill will than it will bring in as new revenue.

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Update #1:

There are two kinds of people.

Those who pay the Gymnastike Gold membership, most very happy with what they get. 🙂 And those ticked off with Gymnastike, a site beloved by one and all before adding their premium membership. 😦

Now that Gymnastike owns the rebroadcasting rights bought the “archive footage rights” for NCAA Championships, they are paying people to search for and take down the “illegal” routines online.

That’s the system we live with in 2014.

Personally I love Gymnastike. But have enough reservations about how they monetize NOT to join myself.

Best case scenario new companies will launch to compete. Companies like sports2visuals with their Hard Way to Success video series.

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Looks like Gymnastike has purchased the re-broadcast rights for the 2014 NCAA Championships.

I like that the link is branded with GOLD. That way new users aren’t confused as to whether that’s free content, or for paid subscribers only.

Their videos stream more slowly than YouTube. You need a fairly strong internet connection to watch them.

Gymnastike is not up front with the cost for Gymnastike Gold subscription. Last time I checked it was $19.99/mo. A yearly subscription $150/year ($12.50/mo.).