25th Trampoline World Age Groups

Though Artistic Gymnastics has yet to launch Junior Worlds, Trampoline sports have had it for a long time.

Sofia’s Arena Armeec is now set to play host to the 25th World Age Group Competitions.

More than 900 junior gymnasts hailing from 43 different countries will compete for the 32 medal sets at stake over the next four days. As the seniors did last week, boys and girls of the age categories 11-12, 13-14, 15-16 and 17-21 years will perform in Individual, Synchronised and Double Mini-trampoline as well as in Tumbling. …

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Movember Gymnastics fundraiser

Click PLAY or watch Calgary Gymnastics Centre’s funny promo on YouTube.

The Movember Foundation is a multinational charity that aims to raise awareness of and money for men’s health …

Its titular and most well known campaign is Movember, which encourages men to grow moustaches during the month of November.

As of 2014, the Movember Foundation has raised over $580m in charitable donations. It has funded more than 800 programs, focusing on prostate cancer, testicular cancer, poor mental health, men’s health awareness and healthy lifestyles.

Gymnasticsville – top Men’s NCAA programs

Here are our Pre-Season Top 10 Power Rankings:

  1. Oklahoma

  2. Ohio State

  3. Illinois

  4. Stanford 

  5. Minnesota 

  6. Nebraska 

  7. Penn State 

  8. Iowa

  9. Michigan 

  10. Air Force

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on proprioception

We often talk about the 5 senses, but proprioception is even more important than those five.

Click PLAY or watch a Special Needs Gymnastics video on the topic.

Sight (vision), hearing (audition), taste (gustation), smell (olfaction), and touch (somatosensation) are the five traditionally recognized senses. The ability to detect other stimuli beyond those governed by these most broadly recognized senses also exists, and these sensory modalities include temperature (thermoception), kinesthetic sense (proprioception), pain (nociception), balance (equilibrioception), vibration (mechanoreception), and various internal stimuli (e.g. the different chemoreceptors for detecting salt and carbon dioxide concentrations in the blood, or sense of hunger and sense of thirst).

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(via Rec Gymnastics)

training at BIG Gymnastics, Illinois

Level 9 and 10s at BIG Gymnastics in Burr Ridge. Co-Owner and Head Coach Kara Kapernekas talks us through an October workout.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

the ‘Shalane Flanagan Effect’

Did you catch the story of Shalane Flanagan winning the New York City Marathon?

… She’s the first American woman to win in 40 years, and she did so in a blistering 2 hours 26 minutes.

But perhaps Flanagan’s bigger accomplishment lies in nurturing and promoting the rising talent around her, a rare quality in the cutthroat world of elite sports. Every single one of her training partners — 11 women in total — has made it to the Olympics while training with her, an extraordinary feat. Call it the Shalane Effect …

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