1 MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 57,900
2 AFANASEVA Kseniia RUS 56,850
3 BUI Kim GER 55,200
4 BLACK Elsabeth CAN 55,000
5 HILL Lisa Katharina GER 54,150
6 WHELAN Hannah GBR 53,650
Examiner LIVE blog from the competition
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rare skills & combos
1/1-in left, 2/1-out right
I recall an argument many years ago with a certain coach who SWORE up and down that this was impossible.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Obviously you can tilt twist left. Untilt. Then tilt twist right.
Steve Elliot showed the same thing decades ago.
See George Hery in the YouTube comments.
via Greg Roe
coach Nick – great spot
July 10th – USAG NEW routines
Women’s Program: Information About New Routines
Date: July 10, 2013
Time: 1:00 p.m. ET
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
If you can’t watch it LIVE, that session will be posted after-the-fact on the USAG Webinars page.
That same page has details on how you could watch LIVE.
coaches needed Canmore, Alberta
My friends at Canmore Illusions Gymnastics Club have two women’s coaching positions open.
1) FULL-TIME Competitive Coach:
(One year maternity leave position)
2) PART-TIME Competitive/Pre-Competitive/Recreational Coach
Salaries: Based on experience & qualifications
Start Date: AUGUST 12
Qualified candidates are invited to email their resume to:
canmoregymnastics (a) hotmail.com
Here’s your excuse to live in the gorgeous Rocky Mountains near Banff. Canmore’s one of the best places to live in the world.
WIN a week at Woodward
… Sunoco is offering a free scholarship for one lucky kid and three of their friends to attend Camp Woodward, a high tech action sports camp, for one week this summer.
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Camp Woodward offers unique camping covering many specialties including gymnastics, cheerleading, skateboarding, bmx, inline skating, snowboarding & skiing and digital media.
The contest is only for a short time – the deadline to post videos is July 17th
Danusia Francis on Yang Hak Seon
Yang Hak Seon continues to wow the world. Check out Danusia Francis’s reaction to his vault today!
https://vine.co/v/h7q0qpOw9IT/embed/simple//platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js
Russian Men win FISU
They did it. The hosts won the Team competition.
1. Russia 273.150
2. Ukraine 269.950
3. Japan 269.700
Russia’s strategy of sending its best MAG team to the Universiade in Kazan today paid off. All rounders Nikita Ignatyev, David Belyavski and Nikolai Kuksenkov put in a solid showing, supported by specialists Denis Ablyazin (floor, vault, rings) and Emin Garibov (pommels, parallel bars and high bar). Their performance must be one of the most consistent and solid by a Russia MAG team in a long time …
RRG – Russia’s golden haul continues in Kazan – updated with links to full results
Denis Ablyazin threw an absurdly difficult Floor routine. (7.1)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Compare that against Kenzo Shirai’s 7.3 difficulty routine.
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