tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Sunday, May 26th, 12 – 5 PM
Manjak’s Gymnastics is opening its brand new 20,000 sq ft. facility to the public for a day in support of Right to Play.
I’m driving to the big event with Power couple Jon Schwaiger and Emily Smith.
Jon and Emily are Power Tumbling Canadian Champions 2013.
They’ll be competing World Games 2013 Cali, Colombia, July 25 to August 4.
There really wasn’t enough seating for WAG / MAG Senior & Junior finals today.
see larger photo posted by @GraceClick
When will Canadian Championships be hosted on podium?
Update: SW tells that Nationals 2000 was on podium.
Jason Burnett is again Canadian Trampoline champion.
He rocked a 17.6 degree of difficulty in the final today.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
His world record DD is 18.8.
full results (PDF)
Best coverage of Canadian Championships is being posted on the Gymnastics Canada Facebook page.
From Friday:
OTTAWA — Hometown favourite Sam Zakutney’s Olympic dreams got a big boost on Friday at the Canadian Gymnastics Championships.
After charging into the lead on Wednesday in the Tyro class Zakutney kept up the pace on the second day to win the all around gold with a total score of 161.250 points. …
In the men’s junior competition Steven Chaplin of Mission, B.C., took the all around gold with a combined score of 152.250 over two days of competition. …
In other events on Friday, Meixi Semple of Oshawa, Ont., won the all around women’s national novice title and Jade Chrobok of Toronto took the all round gold in the high performance novice event.
In the trampoline preliminaries Lexi Geisbrecht of Calgary and Keevin Madigan of Toronto qualified first in the women’s and men’s junior competition.
The championships conclude on Saturday with finals in artistic gymnastics, trampoline and tumbling.
The Gymnastics Canada YouTube channel has random routines and features interviews like this one.
Click PLAY or watch the Kyle Shewfelt interview with 2013 Canadian gymnastics Tyro champion Sam Zakutney.
Here’s Sam’s position in the air on that Vault.
A detailed tutorial from the author of Ganba! Gymnastics materials.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the heart referenced vis-a-vis Centre of Gravity before. It’s closer to the belly button than heart.
Linked by Nathalia Sanchez Cardenas on Facebook.
For the first time in many, many Universiade Championships, Canada is sending a full women’s team.
Ellie Black
Sarah Flett
Mackenzie Itcush
Natalie Gervais
Erica Devereaux
Ellie
Universiade 2013 is scheduled for Kazan, Russia, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan.
July 6-17th.
Previous Universiades:
1983 Edmonton, 1985 Kobe, 1987 Zagreb, 1989 Duisburg, 1991 Sheffield, 1993 Buffalo, 1995 Fukuoka, 1997 Sicily, 1999 Palma de Mallorca, 2001 Beijing, 2003 Daegu, 2005 ?zmir, 2007 Bangkok, 2009 Belgrade, 2011 Shenzhen
Canada will send a young MAG team for experience.
In training at National Championships 2013.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Not many of the top guys, including Nate, competed the AA at National Championships this year.
The focus in advance of Worlds 2013 Belgium is raising start values on your best apparatus enough to be competitive with the elite of the world.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 