NCAA Champions 2014 Oklahoma

I love the NCAA.

One of the few failures of that league, however, is that results are so predictable. Only 5 teams have ever won the Championship.

Florida won for the first time in 2013. It would be awesome if Oklahoma won for the first time in 2014. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch a December intersquad highlights edit on YouTube.

Here’s the Sooners Media Guide.

related – Balance Beam Situation – #3 Oklahoma Preview

Lv Jiaqi – Floor

Our man piibunina recently uploaded more videos from last year’s Chinese Jr Championships to his YouTube channel.

One sample.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Full Twist)

Alyssa Pritchett training Elite

Double Double:

… The (UCLA recruited) walk-on who became a key player as an upperclassmen, has been training with the hopes of qualifying as elite for the first time.

I got the opportunity to talk to Alyssa about her past at Wildfire Gymnastics in Tustin, California, and UCLA, and her current training at Waller’s GymJam Academy in Santa Clarita, California. …

6. When did you realize that you wanted to continue doing gymnastics?

After Nationals. I remember standing there by our fourth place sign thinking, this can’t be it. I love this sport way to much to give it up. I didn’t know what I would be doing exactly, but I knew I was not about to quit.

I actually even tried to petition for a 6th year since I was injured for most of my freshman and sophomore year as well, but I didn’t make one of the qualifications.

Competing in PGC only fired me up more to continue gymnastics, and then I thought, why don’t I just completely go for it and train elite? So that’s exactly what I decided to do.

Alyssa Pritchett 3

read more – Interview with Alyssa Pritchett

She’s coaching, as well.

new WOGymnastikA links

Gigi Khazback Farid must track more web pages than anyone else on the Gymternet.

I especially appreciate when she links to Tumblr .gifs like this one from Fran gymnastics fan. tumblr_my6zormjyA1recceco4_r1_250

Ksenia Afanasyeva Doing One Handed Onodi

There has been confusion differentiating Gymnastike.org and WOGymnastike, however. Two entirely different sites.

Gigi has new links that Alleviates that confusion:

@WOGymnastikA

WOGymnastika on Facebook

WOGymnastika blog

You need to subscribe/follow those to continue getting her stuff.

1-handed gymnast on Rings

This kid is better with one hand than I ever was with two.

Respect.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Tumbl Trak)

new school Gymnastics Team

Good news for competitive school gymnastics in Georgia.

web1_Terri_Dunson_t300… the Henry County School Board that gave the county the green light to add either lacrosse or gymnastics to the roster of athletic offerings, Ola (High School), along with most of the county’s other schools, elected to add gymnastics. …

Denson said that every newly participating team from Henry County has worked out deals with private gyms

Ola’s Terri Denson is excited about Mustangs first gymnastics team

CHN diving 10m synchro

2013 National Games Synchronised Men’s 10m Platform Highlights

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Tough to beat.

(via Thomas Trapp)

vertical wind tunnel

… recreational wind tunnels, frequently advertised as “indoor skydiving” or “bodyflight“, … have also become a popular training tool for skydivers. …

The start of this montage features cool wind tunnel acrobatics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

via @GregRoe1