LEVITATION from SILA SVETA

Mind blowing dance performance interacting with computer lighting.

‘Levitation’ is a collaborative performance by Sila Sveta and Anna Abalikhina shown on the TV show ‘Big Ballet’. All visuals were rendered in real time without any post production.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

Here’s how it was done – Dancer Defies Gravity with Stunning 3D Projections.

Thanks George.

Larisa Latynina – greatest Olympic gymnast all time

Larisa Latynina was ranked the 9th greatest Olympian in any sport by bwin.

… Her total of 18 Olympic medals was a record for 48 years until surpassed by American swimmerMichael Phelps …

Larisa

Leah Griesser – Floor

Though many bemoan the “sad demise of artistic gymnastics” in an era where difficulty is the bigger goal, I see a resurgence of great choreography.

The Dutch at Worlds 2015, for example.

Here’s another example. Superb artistry and choreography from Germany’s Leah Griesser.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Leah Griesser, Pauline Schäfer, Sophie Scheder, Elisabeth Seitz and Pauline Tratz have been chosen to compete at the Rio Test Event.

(via The Beam Queen)

Elisabeth Seitz 15.450 Bars

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In the Bars final Elisabeth (15.366) finished ahead of all 3 Russian challengers.

(via papaliukin)

qualities of a Master Coach

1. Connects with kids.

2. Makes the curriculum work for the kids, not the kids for the curriculum.

5. Focuses on learning goals instead of performance goals and instills this in his/her athletes too.

Jag Gym

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Ultimate Flip Fest Handstand Obstacle Course

Can you match Dave Durante?

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Actually, I don’t like these contests. They encourage bad technique in handstand. I don’t want my kids walking in handstand. Ever.

Walking backwards and sidewards are somewhat not-as-bad.

hair like Aly

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My hair stayed in the best this competition than it ever has before ? I wet the top and underneath my hair and spray lots of hair spray before putting in up. I use lots of bobi pins after putting two hair elastics in a pony and twisting my hair into a bun. Then after adding bobi pins around my bun (careful not to put them in too tight, you'll get a hair headache, especially after having it up for so many hours during a competition). Then add more hair elastics around the bun to make sure that your hair stays in…. I always keep extra hair elastics in my bag to add in if needed. Then when I take my hair out it's so knotted because I have so much hair so I do a conditioning treatment to keep my hair healthy. I have it up in a tight bun majority of the time. When I'm not at the gym it's usually always down to relax my hair and head. ??

A photo posted by @alyraisman on Mar 21, 2016 at 6:05pm PDT

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NCAA Regional Teams Selected

All regionals will be conducted Saturday, April 2, with start times of either 4 or 6 p.m. local time.

NCAA – 2016 NCAA women’s gymnastics championship regional selections

If you are close to one of these sites you really should make the trip. 🙂 Utah, Georgia and Alabama will be crazy loud.

The top two teams at each Regional are seeded highest. Expected to get through. But there are a number of potential upsets ** looming. Stanford, for example, tends to peak for the “playoffs“.

Ann Arbor Regional [University of Michigan]
Auburn
Michigan
Stanford **
Eastern Michigan
Penn State
New Hampshire

Athens Regional [University of Georgia]
LSU
Georgia
Oregon State **
Arizona
George Washington
Michigan State

Michigan State – Gymnastics Headed to NCAA Athens Regional

Regionals

Iowa City Regional [University of Iowa]
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Arkansas **
Iowa
Kent State
Central Michigan

Minneapolis Regional [University of Minnesota]
Florida
Denver
Minnesota **
Missouri
Ohio State
BYU

Salt Lake City Regional [University of Utah]
Utah
UCLA
Washington **
Southern Utah **
Illinois
Utah State

Tuscaloosa Regional [University of Alabama]
Alabama
California
Boise State
Kentucky
West Virginia
Bowling Green

I’m really excited by this one because we’re guaranteed to have a nationals qualifier that we wouldn’t necessarily have expected heading into the season, with Cal, Boise State, and Kentucky (based on what we saw at SECs) in it for that second spot. All three of these teams could get into the high 196s, and Boise State spent much of the early part of the season outscoring Cal. …

Balance Beam Situation

To see the AA and Apparatus specialists invited click over to Gymternet.