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I’ll grab any excuse to link to the beautiful form and presentation of McCool.

There’s a dramatic story to this routine, as well.

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That was one of the favourite memories of coach and author Julie Cross as linked by Arabian Punch Front:

• Author Interview: Julie Cross Part 1
• Author Interview: Julie Cross Part 2

Download Julie’s novel Letters to Nowhere from Amazon. ($.99 Kindle edition)

>Her family may be shattered, but her dreams aren’t…

A Mature YA contemporary set in the tough world of Elite Gymnastics.

British Gymnastics:

We caught up with Head National Coach, Eddie Van Hoof”

“In the immediate future we are looking to prepare all the team for the British Championships in March. It’s quite an exciting prospect again for everyone being in Liverpool and on the podium. It really sets the tone to then go into the European Championships in Sofia in May, where both our junior and senior teams are defending their titles. The real focus now is on giving everyone the challenge to come back with gold.”

“This then immediately leads into the Commonwealth Games in July in Glasgow, which I know splits the team into the home nations but we are hoping for real success in terms of profile and media interest. The gymnasts continue their main preparation as we move into the World Championships in China in October which is obviously by rights the first qualifier for Rio 2016. Only the top 24 teams from the 2014 Worlds will then qualify for the 2015 World Championships …

British men out to dominate in 2014

WARNING — There are some serious falls included in this otherwise awesome montage.

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(via Kylie Stone)

Not pretty.

But if he could CONNECT the cartwheel to 1-leg to illusion … 🙂

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Coach Denis Vachon, one of the best twisters in the world himself, feels David might be the best Power Tumbling twister he’s ever worked with. 🙂

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Dagmar Nissen Munn:

Sometime in 1963-64, Wayne Miller, a young talented trampolinist from Louisiana, with the outstanding coaching of Jeff Hennessy, was the first person to successfully perform a triple twisting double backward somersault on the trampoline. Since he was the first, it became known as “The Miller.”

Wayne’s coach Jeff Hennessy did film it with a 16-mm camera and sent the footage to Jess Robinson for his column in the Modern Gymnast magazine. The sequence of frames from the original film were published in the 1964 July/August issue. …

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(via Trampoline Pundit)

Whistler Bounce Acrobatic Academy has been open for 2yrs, expanding to two adjacent gyms over that time. It’s a Trampoline club geared to ski and Action Sports.

Click PLAY or watch Deaner – Ski & Bounce on Vimeo. It’s got some pretty cool footage of Bounce. As well as big air on the slopes.

Deaner – Ski & Bounce from Stane Productions on Vimeo.

Normally I’d urge parents to keep their kids OUT of Trampoline gyms like this. But BOUNCE is better than most. More thoughtfully set-up. Better padded.

Dave Ross built them a custom Rebound Super Tramp. That’s one insane piece of equipment.

It’s worth checking out if you get up to Whistler B.C., site of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

It’s a mistake to have athletes do these with bad form.

We must incline the “board” (could be a mat) until they can do those with good technique.

Doug Davis agrees. In fact, he feels we should start leg raises with young kids lying on the floor.

If they are not strong enough for those, Doug would put them on an incline, but with the feet higher than the head. Gravity assists rather than providing resistance.

Tumbl Trak’s James Parent and I dropped in for a practice at Whistler Gymnastics‘ new facility in the Vancouver, B.C. resort town.

It’s fully equipped for WAG, Circus Arts and Trampoline.

A few steps next door is the Whistler Athletes’ Centre, a hostel where athletes & coaches can stay at low cost.

Thanks Karin, Tami and everyone at Whistler for your warm hospitality. 🙂

Over 2 million people visit Whistler annually for skiing, mountain biking, hiking and all things outdoors. If you are one of them, drop in to see this terrific gym in the mountains.

But better, younger.

One of the stories to watch at the Winter Olympics.

Mikaela Shiffrin is the reigning World Cup and world champion in slalom. …

Disciplines slalom, giant slalom

Club Burke Mountain Academy

Born March 13, 1995 (age 18)

Vail, Colorado, U.S.

Mom Eileen:

… “Because she skis so efficiently, everyone perceives Mikaela as this perfectly prepped, organized little machine,” Eileen said. … “If they only knew that we don’t know what we’re doing half the time.

“People think we’ve had this master plan to produce a world champion. We have no plan.”

Mikaela Shiffrin’s Swift, if Unplanned, Ascent to World Champion