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International Gymnix

by site editor Rick McCharles

ALBERT MINGUILLON I COLOMER:

Montréal has hosted L’International Gymnix since 1991. Always one of the first meets of the gymnastics year, Gymnix usually attracts a good field.

This year gymnasts from 11 countries will compete on March 8-11 in the three different competitions taking place: Gymnix Challenge, Junior Cup and Senior Cup. This year there will be a double gym and competition in a podium. …

Australia’s Lauren Mitchell and the rest of the Australian contenders for the Olympics, as well as Canadian Olympic hopefuls including Christine Lee, Jessica Savona and Mikaela Gerber, will show their upgrades in the senior competition.

Spaniard Silivia Colussi, who lives in Canada and trains at Oakville, will use the competition to prepare for Europeans trials.

The junior category will have the Russian juniors, notably Maria Bondareva …

THE ALL AROUND – Gymnix features strong field

Those aspiring to qualify to the Olympics will be wanting to show they are “in the mix”, either by good results early in the Olympic Year. Or by high start values on certain apparatus.

Jr High Performance gymnast Breanna Franklin is one of four Gymnastics Adventure athletes who will be in Montreal, representing Team Saskatchewan.

I’m back in Saskatchewan, interim Head Coach of Gymnastics Adventure. Brea and her teammates lost their coach mid-season. I’ve stepped in to fill the gap until we hire a full-time replacement.

We’ve convinced a few more new/old coaches to get back out on the Floor, including A-Mazing Adventures co-owner Mary Lou Cooke.

It’s for the kids. 🙂

injustice – Aly’s Bar score

I got some grief for my post titled 80% less SCAm.

There was some SCAm. And the greatest injustice was Aly’s Bar score.

… clearly, international judges like Aly on this event. They obviously see something the rest of us don’t. We thought nothing could top her 12.9 in the Tokyo AA, which by our calculation would have been mid 15.5s if she’d hit. But Scam came very close.

… When that set can get 14.333 from an apparently international judging panel, it’s time to get up and go home. …

Stoi – What We Learned From Scam Part 1
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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Score: D: 5.9 E: 8.433 = 14.333

Those execution judges must be reprimanded for awarding an “impossible score”. Leave a comment if you’ve got a list of who was on that panel.

Tim called it exactly right. Note.

Aly totally impressed me at American Cup. Even on Bars. That set was quite good, for her. Much improved.

But shame shame on the judges for that SCAm. 😦

American Cup redux

Blythe Lawrence LIVE blogged American Cup. Here’s here follow-up post:

… The real story is that the 2012 American Cup couldn’t have gone better for Martha Karolyi and the U.S. women’s program. That they managed to introduce Douglas as a legitimate Olympic medal prospect without taking away from the prestige of 2011 World champion Jordyn Wieber was a brilliant, brilliant strategic maneuver …

Not to mention that Douglas, whose fifth place all-around finish at the 2011 World championships was also unofficial (and, to be fair, she did it in prelims and not all-around finals), puts her in the same place as Olympic champions Nastia Liukin (fifth at the 2007 World Championships), Andreea Raducan (fifth at the 1999 Worlds) and Tatiana Gutsu (fifth at the 1991 Worlds) for Worlds finishes the year before the Olympic Games. …

Examiner – American Cup redux: USA Gymnastics’s big win-win situation

Kyle Shewfelt likes Gabby’s “star power”.

Bar – Healy progressions

The best video tutorial I’ve seen yet on this skill. By Nick Blanton.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

We’ve typically mainly done mini-tramp bounce to handstand on a low Bar, into Healy. Nick’s sequence is better.

trampoline kiss

World Trampoline Champion, Paul Luxon, from Great Britain with his then fiancé, Ute Czech, German Champion. They were married in 1973. This photo, taken by Chris Ware/Getty Images in May 1973, was titled “Head in the Clouds” and was featured in “Life” Magazine.

I saw that in Trampoline Pundit Flickr Photos. A nice historical archive.

Marta on the Flying Squirrel

Why is Gabby Douglas called the “Flying Squirrel”?

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MTEyNjE1ODA4?related=1

Watch more video of 2012 American Cup on gymnastike.org

Dan Keatings vaults Spelbound

Funny.

… Dan Keatings launches Bupa’s partnership with UK Sport by performing the world’s first ‘human vault‘ over Spelbound in Trafalgar Square. …

In the last ten years, Bupa has has covered over 29,000 treatments for British athletes, which have included 1,130 fractures and 6,782 surgeries.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I want to see Tsuk!

For more information, visit bupa.com/uksport

We love our Sport Med professionals.

Acrobatic gymnasts Spelbound will be performing in the Olympic Opening Ceremonies.