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As chosen by Arabian Punch Front – Year in Review Part 2

1. HuangQiushuangFan / “Mean Girls”

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

If I had any idea what T.V. show that’s spoofing, I might find it funny. 🙂

… Unfortunately I don’t have E.S.P.N.

Michigan won the Cancun Classic with an impressive score of 196.575.

Michigan Head Coach Bev Plocki:

On the team’s performance … “We hit 27 for 27 routines, which was all of our six up plus exhibitions. There weren’t many misses on the whole. I am really excited. I have known we had a really good fall of training. I felt like we were prepared coming in.

Stanford opened the year with 195.425.

The Balance Beam Situation:

First final of 2013: Florida 196.575, Ball State 190.500 …

Bridget Sloan debuts with a 9.925 vault …

… Oregon State is having another nutty on bars, counting a fall, a major mistake, and two other scores well under 9.800. Did I say mid-194s? I meant 193s. Something like 193.600 will be the final. That is an extremely poor result, even for the first week. Teams can come back from this kind of start (Stanford did last year), but this is dire for the Beavers. I don’t expect this to continue in the same level of badness, but the Beavers are verging on not being one of the top 12 teams, certainly. Not making Nationals is a very real concern. …

It Begins

LSU beats NC State 196.075-194.975!

The Tigers clinch D-D Breaux’s 600th career victory! The 196.075 is also a school record for a season opener!”

Savona had a good debeaux — 9.85 vault, 9.80 beam and 9.925 floor.

https://twitter.com/J_Horton11/status/287208782084317184

gymnastike.org on Facebook:

Adorable! A gymdad just posted this on twitter saying, “found this on my daughters wall this AM. She’s 10 today. Anything missing from her list?”

Lauren Hopkins:

Many NCAA programs have ridiculously awesome recruits coming in this year, from big name elites like U.S. Olympian Bridget Sloan and Canadian superstar Peng-Peng Lee to the fierce yet lesser-known J.O. athletes like 2012 national champions Randii Wyrick and Keeley Kmieciak. We at the Couch Gymnast have complied a list of our Top 20 favorites coming in for the 2013 season. Who are you most excited to see? …

NCAA: Twenty Freshmen We Can’t Wait to See!

That post links to related Couch Gymnasts articles:

The 2012-13 Season NCAA Master Schedule with Lauren Hopkins

NCAA for Beginners: Understanding College Gym with Brigid McCarthy

NCAA for Beginners: 10 Reasons Why with Brigid McCarthy

NCAA for Beginners: Meet the Teams with Danelle M. Pecht

Click PLAY or Brigid’s College Beam training on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Njk0NjY2MDQ1?related=1

Watch more video of University of Florida 2013 Preseason on gymnastike.org

She’s not going to give away many tenths this season.

San Jose State is one of the NCAA Teams opening the season tonight.

This is how to promote College Gymnastics. 🙂

See the full size promo photo on Facebook.

(via coach Kristi Marks on Facebook)

WOGymnastike continues a series on when-they-were-young. This time Vika Komova.

Click PLAY or watch her IMPRESSIVE Floor from 2007 on YouTube.

See the other apparatus via this link: 12 Year Old Viktoria Komova (Video)

Here are the responses to the first question in TCG’s … Retrospective. The first question was;

What was your gymnastics highlight/s of the year and why?

TCG 2012 Retrospective: The Highlights

You’ll be surprised to read so many gymnastics pundits so happy with the past year.

And with wildly different highlights.

Chris Saccullo

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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I first fell in love with Aliya Mustafina at the 2010 Worlds. She was dominant. Confident. Yet media shy. Dashing away from the press areas as quickly as possible.

I loved her comeback too.

What a psychological case study. Intriguing.

But in the ranks of best gymnasts all time, Aliya has plenty of weaknesses. Especially form. I use her and Nastia as examples of how NOT to teach young gymnasts to twist.