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The future looks rosy for promising U.S. junior Laurie Hernandez, who trains with MG Elite in New Jersey. …
At the April 2013 U.S. National Team Training Camp, Laurie placed first in junior verification on all four apparatus, upgrading her third place finish from the March camp.
I’ve posted her Floor before. (VIDEO)
Check this montage.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
She’s got the look. 🙂
related – Triple Twist – The Future of USA Gymnastics: Laurie Hernandez (Jan 2013)
Vladimir Zaglada posted a thoughtful, comprehensive analysis of the current state of Russian Artistic gymnastics.
It’s a must read.
Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – Is gymnastics still Russian? A post-Europeans, early Olympiad perspective
When will again see Russian routines so shockingly excellent both acrobatically and artistically as this?
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The Philippines hosted and completed the 22nd of the five-day FIG Age Group camps in the capital city of Manila at the Philippines National Training Centre. It was the last of this first series of Age Group Program Camps that were offered by the FIG over the past six months to those countries that had indicated an interest and willingness to adopt and implement the FIG Age Group Program. …
The FIG expert and course leader for this camp was Jeff Thomson, the former Men’s Program Director of Canada and Education Director of New Zealand. He was joined Carol-Angela Orchard who was many time Olympic-coach and is currently a consultant to the British Team and other countries. Both came directly from a similar camp in Vietnam. …
Future plans for the FIG Age Group Program include the conducting of several 5-day camps that had been postponed and additional introductory camps and then 3-day follow-up camps over the next two years for all of the committed countries. …
The financial assistance of the IOC has been instrumental in the production and implementation of this program. It is hoped that such future assistance will help produce and implement similar programs for the other Olympic disciplines of Rhythmic Gymnastics and Trampoline Gymnastics during this quadrennial.
The Vietnam Gymnastics Federation translated the men’s and the women’s manuals – a total of 255 pages – into Vietnamese.
A year ago I called Hugh Smith and Ellie Black “unlikely Olympic contenders“.
Ellie made the Olympics. AND the Olympic Vault final.
Today the Haligonians are National Champions 2013.
Click photo to see Grace Chiu’s original on twitter.
Ellie advanced to three apparatus finals, which will be held on Saturday. Dave Kikuchi told me she’s been on a big roll of late, hitting routines with ease.
On the other hand, she had two falls on Bars day 1. And fell on Vault day 2.
Victoria Moors decided to withdraw from day 2 competition.
Watch a post-competition interview with Hugh Smith. (VIDEO) And an interview with Ellie Black. (VIDEO)
The first FREE “Choose Your Habits” clinic is underway. Clinician Neil Resnick.
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June 2013
Fri, June 21 YMCA National Gymnastics Training Center – Huguenot, NY
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Saturday, June 22 M & M Gymnastics – New Berlin, WI
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Thursday, June 27 Leading Edge Gymnastics – Everett, WA
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July 2013
Saturday, July 13 Twistars Gymnastics – Dewitt, MI
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Sat., July 20 High Performance Training Camp – Coeur D’Alene, ID
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Saturday, July 27 Atlanta Gymnastics Center – Atlanta, GA
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Sunday, July 28 Arizona Sunrays – Phoenix, AZ
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I’ll be attending the 4 in bold.
Members of the University of Oklahoma women’s gymnastics team … tornado clean-up efforts in Moore
See more Sooner Gymnastics Tornado Clean Up photos on Facebook.
Men‘s All-Around Rankings: Best Scores
(Without Japanese Nationals)
1. Max Whitlock Great Britain 90.650 British Championships
2. Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine 90.375 Tokyo World Cup
3. Ryohei Kato Japan 90.175 Tokyo World Cup
4. David Belyavskiy Russia 89.799 European Championships
5. Jake Dalton USA 89.398 American Cup
6. Daniel Purvis Great Britain 89.250 Tokyo World Cup
7. Liu Rongbing China 89.134 Chinese Nationals
8. Fabian Gonzalez Spain 88.700 Tokyo World Cup
9. Lin Chaopan China 88.568 Chinese Nationals
10. Deng Shudi China 88.236 Chinese Nationals
UTRS = Uncle Tim Ranking System
Uchimura once said he felt Ryohei Kato would be his strongest challenger in the future.
related – Oleg Verniaiev Recapped
Andreea E. Munteanu (Romania) and Christian Baumann (Switzerland) won the all-around titles at the 10th City of Lugano Trophy, a junior competition held Saturday in southern Switzerland.
This year’s event attracted 35 gymnasts from nine European nations, with females born 1998-2000 and male gymnasts born 1995-1999. The competition is held every two years. …
1. Andreea Munteanu ROM 55.60
2. Maria Bondareva RUS 54.15
3. Anastasia Dmitrieva RUS 54.10
Click PLAY or watch Andreea’s Floor on YouTube.
See Couch Gymnast for more videos.
Hambüchen, who won his seventh German all-around title on Sunday, took second on floor exercise behind Matthias Fahrig in Tuesday’s apparatus finals. Hambüchen filed an inquiry into his 6.2 Difficulty score, and the score was corrected to 6.3, putting him ahead of Fahrig. After Hambüchen was announced as the gold medalist, however, the D-score was once again changed back to 6.2, and he was told he waited too long to file the inquiry.
The reversal outraged Hambüchen, 25. …
read more on IG – German Championships Erupt Into Scandal
Victoria Moors wasn’t yet available 🙂 so I ended up the interview on this weeks GymCastic audiocast.
We talk Canadian gymnastics, judging, FIG, coach education, the new FIG Age Group Camps and my personal gymnastics history.
15 minutes of fame.
listen to GymCastic episode 34
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