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Recreation Report Cards

Here’s one system that worked for us at Taiso.

Short. Simple. Not too onerous for the coach.

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Those were photocopied back-to-back twice. Folded. One copy kept in the gymnast’s file, the other sent home to the parent on the second last week of the Recreation session.

I posted some thoughts over on RecGymnastics. Leave comments there, if you have strong opinions on the topic.

We’re still looking for Rec Experts to guest post on that site. Email me if interested.

Rick_McCharles |a| hotmail.com

Jake Dalton – Floor 15.90

OU’s Jake Dalton on floor (15.900) at Illinois (Jan. 28)

http://www.twitvid.com/embed.php?guid=BOIE3&autoplay=0

via @StickItMedia

Ashley Priess – Bars 9.925

Alabama 196.325 – Auburn 196.250 … close

… “I know that when it counts, she’s going to be right there on fire,” Alabama coach Sarah Patterson said of Priess. …

Record crowd at Auburn sees Ashley Priess help Tide gymnasts escape with a victory again

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

inspired by the Olympics

It’s only one festival every 4yrs. But the Olympic reach is far, far greater.

‘Sport at Heart‘ — the award-winning film featuring David Beckham, Amir Khan, Dame Kelly Holmes and Sir Roger Moore; set London on the road to success. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The video was filmed in 2004 as part of the bid, Roger Moore age-76 at the time.

That’s it. Inspired, I’m off on a 90min run. 🙂

(via Adriana Pop on Facebook)

Jordyn Wieber – ESPN interview

Olympic Gold Medalist Julie Foudy interviews the World Champion, her Mom and Coach.

Click PLAY or watch it on ESPN.

http://player.espn.com/player.js?pcode=1kNG061cgaoolOncv54OAO1ceO-I&width=576&height=324&externalId=espn:7509384&thruParam_espn-ui%5BautoPlay%5D=false&thruParam_espn-ui%5BplayRelatedExternally%5D=true

Jordyn’s handling the media onslaught terrifically well. About the same way she’s handled every other challenge.

related – JULIE FOUDY SPORTS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

Stanford 194.525

Oh Stanford…what’s going on with you? Do you need to talk to someone? A parent or guardian or trusted adult? …

Something’s going on with this team and it’s not pretty. …

Pak Salto

I’ll bet they wish they had Canadian hero Kristina Vaculik back. She’ll be returning to the team Sept. 2012. 🙂

Recall that Stanford was ranked #1 much of last season before being knocked out of NCAA Championships by mighty Kent State.

apologies Florida – 197.775

I figured Arkansas was on a high. And would be highly motivated. And they might easily have won in Florida with 196.70.

But the Gators killed last night.

… the fifth-highest total in school history of 197.775 to defeat No. T-1 Arkansas (8-1, 2-1 SEC), which posted a total of 196.70. No. 24 Maryland (4-4) was third at 193.075 and Bridgeport (2-4) rounded out the evening’s results at 192.975. The previous nation’s high of 197.575 was turned in by No. T-1 UCLA last Sunday in Los Angeles. …

gatorzone

Mackenzie Caquatto was back from ankle injury, competing Bars.

http://www.gatorvision.tv/mediaPortal/embed.swf

Deja vu all over again. Florida once again MIGHT end up my favourites to win it all in 2012. I hate to jinx them as I have so many other years.

Miss Val put in some of her second team gymnasts in a 194.600 loss to Washington. When you have a BIG team like UCLA, you need to find opportunities to test as gymnasts as you can. I wonder what she’ll do next week against death-spiraling Stanford?

Utah went 197.55. This looks to be their best team since I’ve been covering them on this site. Some think it’s the best Ute’s team ever. Follow Greg Marsden on Facebook.