Sam Mikulak wins Winter Nationals

Sam is back. 🙂

1. Sam Mikulak 177.450
2. Akash Modi 175.300
3. Sean Melton 174.500
4. John Orozco 174.350
5. Yul Moldauer 174.100
6. Donnell Whittenburg 173.300

Modi, Melton and Moldauer have been added to National Team. Horton and Bailey removed.

Details and full results on wintercup.com.

Click PLAY or watch the 2016 Winter Cup Challenge – Finals on YouTube. (rebroadcast)

Gymnix Junior Cup Teams

Heart it on Instagram.

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BEL-GER-ROU Friendly

April 3, 2016.

Belgium will host direct competitors trying to qualify a full team to Rio at the Olympic Test Event. This one is important.

Belgium competition

details on Belgian Gymnastics

contortion press handstand

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Wow – incredible strength! #Repost @flexible__people Amazing strength and control!

A video posted by Inside Gymnastics (@insidegym) on Jan 10, 2016 at 9:43am PST

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I wanna go to Flip Fest

I’ve attended most of the major north American Gymnastics Camps, over the years. But I’ve never been to Flip Fest. 😦

Click PLAY or watch a Camp rap on Facebook.

Thanks Mary.

Sean Melton leads Winter Cup

Sean Melton 87.750
Yul Moldauer 87.350
Sam Mikulak 87.100
CJ Maestas 87.050
Akash Modi 86.850
Eddie Penev 86.650
full results

Sean Melton of Columbus, Ohio/Ohio State University, posted the top score in the all-around after the second of two preliminary sessions on the opening day of competition at the Winter Cup Challenge at Las Vegas’ Cashman Center. Competition concludes Saturday at 10 p.m. ET with the finals, which will be webcast live at WinterCup.com/live. …

Melton leads after first day of 2016 Winter Cup Challenge

Melton

There were a lot of falls and mistakes in this very important meet. Hopefully Day 2 will be better.

The top 42 gymnasts, according to the Men’s Program Committee’s points ranking system, will advance to the final competition, along with the top three gymnasts on each apparatus. The all-around and individual event champions will be determined via a combined two-day score.

related – 5 Ms Dominate Winter Cup Prelims

Nemov master-class Club visits

Alexei Nemov has been in the news. Unhappy with parking activists in Russia.

In more interesting news, Nemov and other former Russian greats each year travel to clubs around the nation.

The first master-class of Alexei Nemov was held in Moscow in October 2013. This event has become an annual event. Gymnasts travel to many different Russian cities in order to share their experiences with young athletes. Olympians visited Chita, Togliatti, Samara, Kazan, etc. About 5000 young gymnasts were able to visit such master-classes and talk to the Champions. …

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Nemov