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At Gymnastics Adventure in Saskatchewan, kids looking for their clothes that have been left “lying around” sometimes find their missing duds hung from the top of the rope.
This is a REMINDER to put clothing away in the first place. AND is good exercise. 🙂
A freshman who capped her collegiate debut with two NCAA titles, Kytra Hunter of the University of Florida has won the Honda Sports Award for gymnastics after being crowned the NCAA all-around and vault champion for 2012. Her selection by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program recognizes Hunter as the country’s top female athlete in her sport. …
Hunter is the first gymnast from the University of Florida to achieve the all-around title …
Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.
Fabian and Uchimura are the two best Horizontal Bar men of all time, in my opinion.
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This has potential.
A vibrating suit could be the key to ensuring Britain’s athletes perform with inch-perfect precision at this summer’s Olympics.
… tiny sensors attached to the wearer’s skin trigger motors to tell them when they move in the correct way.
A computer tracks the user’s movements in real time and the results can be monitored by a coach as Olympic hopefuls practice. …
British Olympic rhythmic gymnast Mimi Cesar, 17, is using the technology to polish her routines.
… ‘The suit will be especially useful in group gymnastics because you get points for synchronisation and how you all look together so it will help gymnasts do the routines exactly the same.
‘If all five of them wore the suits they would know exactly where to place their back or body …
Read more on the Daily Mail – Giving Olympic athletes a buzz: New electric training suit vibrates to tell medal hopefuls when they have perfected a routine
(via @gymnewstics)
Great news.
Bangor based Rathgael Gymnastics and Tumbling Club has announced plans to develop what will be the largest gymnastics facility in (Northern) Ireland.
The facility which will span 14,500 square feet …
… almost 800 gymnasts …
Full Twist – Rathgael Gymnastics to open Ireland’s biggest gymnastics facility
Click PLAY or watch a preview on YouTube.
OK … Greg. If you say so …
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Yeesh.
An entry submitted to the Tricks and Tumble Contest run on the Vuly Trampolines forum in 2009.
Thanks to David Holcomb for the link.
Balance Beam Effect on NCAA Championships Finals:
… As we all know, the stupidest rule in all of NCAA gymnastics requires gymnasts to suddenly perform two vaults in event finals.
Either they need to do away with the second vault and just have them perform the same vault twice, or they need to require potential qualifiers to perform a second vault in Semifinals, like we currently see in elite.
Both of those solutions would eliminate the insufferable parade on non-10.0 vaults in finals. …
That’s dangerous. Chucking a second vault you don’t train regularly.
And Vault is almost always the most disappointing Women’s Final. It was again in 2012.
… In a final marked by only three athletes attempting two 10.0 vaults, Kytra Hunter came out on top. The 2012 AA champ came up with a near stick on her Yurchenko Layout 1 1/2 and then landed a Yurechenko Layout Full with a large step to secure the win. She outpaced Bama’s Diandra Milliner, who threw the same two vaults for 2nd. Georgia’s Kat Ding stuck a solid Yurchenko Layout full and then added a tucked version (with a step) for 3rd. Defending champ Marissa King had a low landing on her Tsuakahara Layout Full, after landing a Tsukahara Layout 1 1/2.
“Everyone on vault doesn’t really have another vault, so everyone feels the same about it. They’re all confused. It’s kind of hectic.” — Rheagan Courville on the two vault rule in NCAA event finals, to The Daily Reveille
“I don’t train it at all. But in the last week, we’ve been doing one or two in practice. I’m really scared of that vault (Yurchenko full). With the one and a half, I can spot my landing but that is harder for me to do with the full,” Hunter said. “I just went out there and did whatever I could.” — Kytra Hunter on her NCAA winning second vault, a Yurchenko full, to The Orlando Sentinel
Click PLAY or watch Kytra Hunter on YouTube.
In regular competition, Vault is often the most boring apparatus. Judges don’t discriminate well between an endless series of Yurchenko 1/1s.
EliteAthlete10 on College Gymnastics Board makes some recommendations for improvement – Solution to Separating Vault Scores
Leave a comment if you’ve an opinion on how to improve NCAA Vault.
Those gymnast admissions come from Examiner – The quotable NCAA Championships
Bea Gheorghisor wrote the best article I’ve seen yet on the Romanian Juniors:
… who should we expect to see at Euros? Some the same names that were sent to Jeloso and Cholet: Stefania Stanila, Silvia Zarzu, Bianca Ciobanu, Miriam Aribasoiu, Paula Tudorache, Diana Teodoru and Maria Rauta are among the favorites. Andreea Munteanu, who is coming back from injury, was recently added to the mix as well.
In both competitions mentioned above, their strongest apparatus was floor and the weakest – uneven bars. …
… The most gifted on this apparatus seems to be Miriam Aribasoiu: her lines are quite good …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
On beam things are far better compared to UB. In both aforementioned meets there were a lot of falls but even with all the deductions for the falls, they compensate a lot with their almost senior-level difficulty. …
In Brussels, at the European Championships, they will probably fight for the bronze medal in the team final. …
Couch Gymnast – The Road to Euros: The Romanian Junior Team
There’s much more, including videos, via that link.
Wall Street Journal:
Two Brothers, One Goal: Land the Only Spot at the Olympics
U.S. Can Send Only One Male Contestant to Trampoline Event; ‘We Both Want It’… “I am not going to let my little brother beat me this year,” says Steven Gluckstein, 21 years old.
Counters Jeffrey Gluckstein, 19: “Hopefully my best is just a little better than his.” …
… Their styles are different. Steven looks and trains like a Marine, wearing a crew-cut and rising early each day to follow a strict regimen. In addition to jumping for three hours a day, Steven goes to a gym most nights to work with weights, do exercises to strengthen his core or swim sprints across the pool. He keeps meticulous notes of his practices. His sports psychologist urges him to take time off training, Steven says, but in order to aim for the Olympics, Steven put college on hold.
By contrast, Jeffrey is taking classes at a local community college. Invariably arriving late to practice, he works out with weights when he can find the time and files the required monthly log of his workouts to the sport’s national federation just before they are due. …
read more on the WSJ
Awesome article.
Thanks to Trampoline Pundit for recommending it.
Jason Burnett (CAN), Ueyama Yasuhiro (JPN) and Anna Dogonadza (GER) have all confirmed that they are named Olympians for 2012.
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