U.S. Men’s Future Stars

The Future Stars National Championships showcase the USA’s top 10-, 11-, 12- and 13-year-old male gymnasts …

In addition to the competition, Future Stars athletes and their parents participate in workshop activities that feature lectures, technical presentations, and hands-on coaching sessions. …

The Future Stars program is designed is to identify talented athletes and to start them on the right developmental path to national and international success.

USAG – McCafferty, Bottarini, Petrosyan, Shamah win 2017 Future Stars all-around titles

Olympic platform diving short film

Director Brian Blum’s Blood and Water … works because it feels surprisingly authentic, especially for a student short. Starring 2016 Olympic silver medalist, Steele Johnson, it’s a film that that never seems like it’s pretending. Its portrayal of both the sport and the emotions behind it feel real, the details are precise. Even the accident that sets the film into motion is shown in clear and unsettlingly specific detail. …

Short of the Week

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo. (Accident is shown early on. Intense. I’m not impressed with coach Mom.)

Tom Trapp sends us the link … but wishes it was a better film with a better title.

Ana Padurariu wins Elite Gym Massilia

1. Ana Padurariu Canada Open 1 54.267
2. Louise Vanhille France B 53.050
3. Celia Serber France B 52.200
4. Zoe Allaire-Bourgie Canada Open 1 52.200
5. Vera van Pol Netherlands 50.500
6. Alison Faure Pole Marseille (France) 50.433

1 Canada Open 1 156.883
2 France B 153.367
3 Pole Marseille 149.917
full results

VIDEOS

National Letters of Intent for 2019

FloGymnastics posted a list of those who made verbal commitments official and signed their National Letters of Intent (NLI) for the 2019 season.

cycling the Wheel of Death #CirqueShop

Danny MacAskill and pals pushing the limits.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – other cyclists in Cirque’s VOLTA (video)

Thanks Rosemary.