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Please sign this petition.

target: The Temple University Board of Trustees

The Temple University Board of Trustees has recently announced that they will no longer be funding several sports programs, one being men’s gymnastics. Temple gymnastics has been a pillar to Temple University with it’s academic and athletic excellence. We have produced national champions, world team members, and Olympians since our inaugural season. Please help us SAVE OUR SPORT!

Save Temple University Men’s Gymnastics

NCAA MEN’S GYMNASTICS ALUMNI on Facebook:

This is an Open Letter to Temple University, The Gymnastics Community, and Sports World:

Gymnastics is one of the most watched sports during the Olympics world wide. Including Temple University, there are only 17 NCAA Men’s Gymnastics programs in the entire nation. This means that any gymnast who can even make it onto a collegiate team is one of the most elite athletes in the nation. And these are also the gymnasts who go on to represent the United States of America at international competitions, including the Olympics.

Discontinuing funding of any NCAA Men’s Gymnastics program will be not only a major loss to the university, but to the entire national gymnastics community. I had to fight to keep the University of Illinois at Chicago Men’s Gymnastics program from being cut and I will fight just as hard to save Men’s Gymnastics Team at Temple University. Losing Temple gymnastics will cause a domino effect of problems throughout NCAA gymnastics that I am not willing to see happen. The Temple Athletic Director and University President need to understand that not only will they be taking away opportunities from students athletes at their own school but also at schools around the entire ECAC and NCAA.

To the Freddy and the men of Temple Gymnastics:

You have always been fierce competitors on the competition floor, yet gracious hosts to the City of Brotherly Love. I know the rivalry that stood between us also drove us all to be better gymnasts, letting us reach new levels in our sport. However, there is no place for rivalry when it comes to saving our sport. I am all in. I will do everything I can to rally the troops and stand beside Temple Gymnastics in the fight to save this program.

To those reading this:

Sign the petition and then be ready to fight! This is a call to arms to support our brothers in sport.

Sincerely,

Andrew Stover
University of Illinois at Chicago 2006-2010

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from December 1994, the last time Temple threatened to cancel Men’s and Women’s Gymnastics.

The article was linked by the Save Temple Men’s Gymnastics’s Page.

USAG:

The text, illustrations and routine videos for the 2013-2021 USA Gymnastics Women’s Compulsory Program are now available for the Apple iPad as well as Android-enabled tablets. The app, available through the iTunes store here, the Google Play store here and the Amazon Kindle store here, sells for $29.99 and allows gymnastics professionals, coaches and judges alike to take the complete program for reference wherever they go.

1988 Olympic Champion

1. Artemov RUS
2. Liukin RUS
3. Bilozerchev RUS

Click PLAY or watch a career retrospective on YouTube.

Great Compulsories.

Larisa fell on Beam. Ebee fell on Vault. 😦 (VIDEO)

Click PLAY or watch Larisa’s Bars on YouTube. (14.400)

No fall this week. 🙂

Glasgow World Cup.

Oleg hit Horizontal Bar AGAIN for the win.

1. Oleg Verniaiev, Ukraine, 89.798 (fall on POM)
2. Daniel Purvis, Great Britain, 89.131
3. Andrey Likhovitskiy, Belarus, 88.597

Click PLAY or watch Oleg’s (not great) Floor on YouTube.

Though he won two major invitationals in a row, I’m still not convinced he’s become a good competitor.

When Swing Big linked to a Level 9 Floor routine, I had to check it out.

Somebody verbal Grace Kramer. This is over-the-top showtime choreography that most College teams could use. She’s class of 2016.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Nice late twist, too.

Grace is from Wildfire Gymnastics in Tustin, California.

The new Intelligent Movement blog by coach Andrea out of Calgary has an excellent interview with clinician Tony Retrosi, 2010 USA Gymnastics Educator of the Year.

Andrea: You teach many clinics and give many talks, do you have a favorite speaking topic?

Tony: Lately I have really enjoyed teaching coaches HOW TO TEACH. A lecture title “Coaches as Educators”. I have been working on a book with the same title. I think there are many coaches who are better technicians than me but so many have forgotten that it really doesn’t matter WHAT you know if you can’t deliver it in a teachable fashion.

… read more

I’m looking forward to coaching again at Tony’s GYM MOMENTUM TRAINING CAMP 2014.

In fact, my summer’s already getting booked up with Camps. The earliest ever.

Gym Momentum website and Facebook

Douglass is not at all one of the strongest American contenders for Rio. Yet he’s got an indiegogo fund-raising campaign.

Click PLAY or watch it on indiegogo.

If it works for Douglass, other gymnast should consider crowd sourcing their fund-raising.

After all her travels, Larisa doesn’t look tired to me. She’s training both fulls on Beam. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Njg3NzI1OTI0?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more videos on Gymnastike

Beautiful turn.

Here’s a bad idea.

… Adding to the danger of the already wildly dangerous shoot, Koki was jumping TOWARD the third rail.

“People online have been saying he should’ve come from the other side, so he wasn’t going toward the third rail, but it would have been impossible,” Ying explained to Daily Intel. “We had scouted the subway pretty well. This spot is probably the only one where that was doable.”

According to the NYC Transit Rules of Conduct, it’s a violation just to STAND on a skateboard on the subway. And considering the rather frequent subway fatalities, we wouldn’t recommend any amateur skateboarders try this out anytime soon. …

gothamist

Dvora Meyers is pretty sure she could clear those tracks, too. 🙂