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what is Simone doing?

November is as quiet as it’s going to get for Simone Biles. …

She will announce this week what likely will be the first of many promotional and endorsement contracts negotiated by her new management representatives. … workmen buzz around her in every direction, completing work on the Biles family’s new 50,000-square-foot, multimillion-dollar gym and training center at the northern edge of the Grand Parkway. …

For Simone Biles, Rio and Olympics fast approaching

Mary Lou Retton on Simone:

“She’s not human,” Retton said. “She may be the most talented gymnast I’ve ever seen in my life, honestly. And I don’t even think she’s tapped into what she really can do. I think she’s unbeatable.”

Region 5 Hot Shot Camp

… 2015 Hot Shot Camp at Mid Michigan Gymnastics. This camp is for our upcoming gymnasts under the age of 12 …

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Uchimura – landings

At a judge’s meeting in Glasgow I was informed that even the great Kohei has been deducted in the past. Including 2014 Worlds.

Not for “low chest” – that would be stupid – but rather for not “having his feet together”.

As has been adopted by the Women’s NCAA, after landing with feet shoulder width FIG male gymnasts must slide heels together until they touch. If they do not touch, the feet were too wide.

Kohei is sliding his heels together now. 🙂

https://www.tumblr.com/supermura/36707275339/kohei-uchimuras-stuck-landings

wide arm, finger-tip Maltese

WOW

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Finding Our Balance (2016)

TheGymter.net editor Lauren Hopkins has a new book coming December 15th, 2015. Gymnastics fiction.

… The lives of these talented, driven, extraordinary teenage girls revolve around their dreams. They trade cute boys, glittery prom dresses, and sweet sixteen parties for unrelenting coaches, sweaty leotards, and thousands of hours in the gym, all for the tiniest chance of someday becoming Olympic gymnasts. The 2016 trilogy follows Amalia, Ruby, and Emerson through heartbreak, triumph, and everything in between as their lifetime of training comes down to a single summer that will change their lives forever.

As the first book in the series, “Finding Our Balance” follows the gymnasts in the months before the Olympic Games. …

… more on goodreads