NCAA Press Conference

Vanessa Zamarripa fell on her beam dismount at Regionals last weekend, and we asked Miss Val about the injury.

Valorie Kondos-Field of UCLA:

Vanessa has a sprain in her foot/ankle, between the fourth and fifth metatarsus of her foot, and it’s all along that side of her foot and into her ankle. So, she’s not training yet. She just got out of a boot. She’s got a steel plate in her tennis shoe, and she said, ‘I’ll be fine.’ So [sigh] she’ll be fine.”

After uncharacteristic mistakes from seniors Vanessa Zamarripa and Monique de la Torre, we were curious whether there would be any changes to UCLA’s lineup.

Valorie Kondos-Field of UCLA: “No, hopefully not. We don’t have anyone else to put in. No, we’re planning on going with the same team, and they’re actually training really well.” …

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Greek Gods

Greek gymnasts Vasiliki Millousi, Eleftherios Kosmidis and Eleftherios Petrounias in a magazine photo shoot.

Greek gymnasts

See more on Vasiliki Millousi’s blog.

(via Gymnastics Examiner on Facebook)

acrobatic athlete nutrition

Denis Vachon on Facebook:

I definitely put being an athlete first! My priority is to as healthy and clean as possible in my diet in order to be able to deliver the best performance in the gym everyday. I’m an athlete 24/7 not just when my shorts are on. I believe that is the reason I’ve been so successful!

Happy Eating 🙂

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Chellsie Memmel:

Healthy lifestyle choices, particularly nutrition, are very important as an athlete (and beyond, too). I like routine in my life (no pun intended) so I tend to stick to them. …

Preparing for an Important Meet

un-airbrush models

Dove Canada is distributing a Photoshop action that attempts to un-airbrush altered images of models.

Click PLAY or see how it works on YouTube.

The message coaches want to get out to girls and women is that a good body is one that can get the job done.

barbie 1

related – If Barbie was Human

Russian Gymnastics History

Can you cartoon Soviet and Russian gymnastics in two comic, profane pages using mainly .gifs?

You can try.

Tumblr – Because FAN is short for FANatic – A (NOT SO) BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN GYMNASTICS SAGA AS IT RELATES TO THE FIRING OF ALEXANDER ALEXANDROV

PART 1 – The demise

PART 2 – The Resurgence.

hmm …

I’m feeling .gif fatigue. 😦

And it seems Tumblr has grown increasingly negative. A place where haters try outdoing each other. I won’t link so often.


Europeans: Examiner | Couch Gymnast | Rewriting Russian Gymnastics | The All Around

NCAA Championships Sunday Apr 21st:
WAG Event Finals | GymCastic LIVE
MAG Event Finals | IG Facebook LIVE

Life in a Handstand

Life in a Handstand is a video series starring Tim ‘Livewire’ Shieff who … lives his life … in handstand.

TIM – Team Storm blog

webisode 2 — Puppy Love

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

webisode 1 —  Mind The Gap!

webisode 3 — The Letter

webisode 4 — Homeless