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Marisa discovered the 2004 Olympic Floor Champion featured in her Grade 10 math text book.

Kyle hadn’t known he was in it. 🙂

Christchurch School of Gymnastics is looking to employ a Senior Women’s Gymnastics Coach. The successful applicant will have GymSports New Zealand WAG Level 3 Coaching Qualification or international equivalent qualifications.

The position is full time; coaching senior WAG gymnasts is the major role and includes development work in our junior and talent programme.

The position start is negotiable for the right person.

Please forward your CV and a covering letter to avril (a) chchgymnastics.co.nz

Strong club. Great opportunity for someone looking to coach internationally. They have strong up-and-coming Juniors. Getting a work visa for New Zealand is easy compared with most other nations.

Good technique on these shoulder rolls. 🙂

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Thanks Mary.

Brigid linked to this NBC fluff piece.

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photo via Aliya Mustafina Online on Facebook

… Bobby Baker shows off his new skill (Full Twisting Double Front) for the 2012-13 season.

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzIxNjU1NjY1?related=1

Watch more video of Gymnastike All Access: Aerial Gymnastics (IL) on gymnastike.org

New book by the 2008 Olympic Champion, to be issued (surprisingly) after the London Games.

Blossom:

Picture of the book cover via Yang Wei’s Weibo

I wonder if it will mention his wife’s birthday. 🙂

Here’s an excellent new video featuring the Women’s team at Revolution Gymnastics in Canada. Stephanie Merkle‘s club. Aaron Brokenshire – Director.

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How do you get to the White House?

… PRACTICE.

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Athletes don’t spend much time thinking about politics.

related – davidboudia2012 on Instagram

The WAG Technical Committee released their newsletter today which has a lot of statistical and factual information from the London 2012 Olympics. Amongst the information is the announcement of new elements which have been added to the 2013 – 2016 Women’s Artistic Code of Points (CoP). …

Full Twist

Click PLAY or watch Angel Wong’s awesome Beam mount (E) on YouTube.

That’s an excellent FIG report. Well worth analyzing.

Youngest Team – USA
BRA 22.6 Oldest Team – BRA
CAN 18 Average age of all teams – 19.583 (OG’08 – 18.65) …

Assessment of the Judging

CI: Shortly after competition, the WTC carried-out a video evaluation of selected exercises:
VT- 59, UB – 45, BB – 47 and FX- 50.

… verbal warnings were issued to some judges.

Few judges showed bias for a gymnast from their own country and/or against a gymnast in contention for a similar placement.

It was also obvious that some judges were “Bias” towards gymnasts from “friendly” countries.

This fact will be taken into consideration in the evaluation of the judges’ work.

Generally speaking the ranking of the gymnasts was correct.

WTC Newsletter – N° 33 September 2012 (PDF)

Nellie KIM, FIG/WTC President

With the statistical and graphical assistance of Donatella Sacchi, 1st Vice President,
Naomi Valenzo, WTC Secretary

You don’t see many female gymnasts keeping thumb around the rail on 360 degree swings.

Here’s one. A College gymnast.

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It’s more common on forward giants than backward.

Bars guru Tom Forster is now advocating that small girls should try to learn swinging skills with their thumbs around the Bar.

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Thumb tape highly recommended.

Interesting idea. But start with a “pencil rail” (perfectly round rather than oval) if you can possibly get one.

I’m not convinced we’ll see this catching on much soon. But the more female gymnasts use their thumbs on casts and turns in handstand, the better.

That all comes via Gymnast Crossing which has much more detailed discussion.

If you have comments, leave them there.