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Great interview.

… Aly is 21 and still kickin’ it, vying for a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team. After spending time in Los Angeles, competing on ABC TV’s ‘Dancing With The Stars’, Aly is currently training in Burlington, Massachusetts at Brestyan’s, her hometown gym.

… she’s not guaranteed a spot for the 2016 Olympics because this is determined after Olympic Trials, which will be held in San Jose this summer. (Next year, five athletes will make the 2016 U.S. women’s gymnastics team. There is one automatic bid–whoever wins Olympic Trials—and the other four members are selected by the coaches.)

… day her sponsors include Reebok, GK Elite, Walden Behavioral Care and Revision Skincare …

ALY RAISMAN: GOLD STAR

Over the course of time, the age limit for participation at a world championship has been moved up. Today, the limit sits at 18 for Men and 16 for the Women Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics, 17 for Trampoline (18 for the Olympic Games), 18 for Aerobic, and 15 for Acrobatic Gymnastics (the minimum age for flier). …

The average varies depending on the discipline. In Artistic 2012 at the Olympic Games in London, it was 24.44 for men and 19.78 for women. In Rhythmic: 19.58. Trampoline: 25.06 for men and 22.48 for women. In Aerobic: 23.03 for men and 22.60 for women. And for Acrobatic: 20.87 for men and 18.97 for women. …

FIG FAQ

Thanks Cordelia.

Anne Phillips started Gymnastike in 2008 with limited resources and limited staff, but a ton of passion, dedication, and hard work. The scope of gymnastics coverage has changed drastically in the past seven years, with Gymnastike at the front of the charge. Hear about how the site has grown over the years culminating in our recent rebrand to FloGymnastics.

Story Of FloGymnastics

If you’ve always wondered why it was originally called Gymnastike, click through. 🙂

Anne is now Senior Product Manager at FloSports. An administrator. No longer involved in day-to-day coverage. Without her tireless efforts in those early years, they’d never have come this far.

🙂

Athletes are preparing to travel to Denmark for the World Trampoline and Tumbling Championships. The Olympic qualifier for Tramp. Two of the World’s best talk training.

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related – Rosie MacLennan relives the London 2012 Trampoline final GOLD. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Brett MacAulay)

I’d been excited to finally see this new film.

But the latest trailer turns me off. Nothing but F-bombs. How many little kids are going to be shocked clicking PLAY to see something about Gymnastics?

Watch it here, if you like.

I’d seen the Janssen-Fritsen 20cm wide Beam at Worlds one year. But here’s the first one I’ve seen in the wild. 🙂

A competition Beam is 10cm wide.

I’d love to try a wide Beam with a generation of girls training in conjunction with different “springy” Beams. Making tumbling easy for beginners.

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It works for tumbling. Why not Beam? 🙂

No doubt making the final transition to the high competitive Beam would be the biggest challenge.

A teammate of past Canadian great Nathan Gafuik, who’s now retired, Kevin won his region’s 2015 Athlete of the Year.

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Click PLAY or watch his 2014 Commonwealth Games Final routine on YouTube. Tak 1/2 to Def.

Kevin and team Canada will be fighting for one of the top 4 spots at the Rio Test Meet.

For Tseko Mogotsi, the city of Odense (DEN) will always be the city of Trampoline and Tumbling. It was at the 2001 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships in Odense that Tseko Mogotsi and his South African teammates won the World silver medal in Men’s Team Tumbling, South Africa’s best-ever World finish in the discipline. …

What was your favorite skill to perform?

Tseko Mogotsi: “Double back salto to punch double front. I learned this skill by accident actually. The idea came during the Indo Pacific Championships in Japan 1995. I could not fit my eight skill pass on the tumbling track and came up with an idea to do 7 skills and a punch front as the last skill. The punch front just showed incredible potential that I started working on the double punch front.” …

Mogotsi: “There are three tumblers who made an impression on my tumbling, particularly because they were innovative:

• Rayshine Harris (USA) – The first to compete three double straight saltos in one pass.

• Alexander Kryjanovski (RUS) – The first to compete full in triple salto.

• Vladimir Ignatenkov (RUS) – The first to compete double straight with a quadruple twist. He was also very fast and powerful. Great to watch.” …

FIG interview – Tseko Mogotsi (RSA)

Romanian blog puzzlegym has a report on the 2015 Junior Nationals.

… a slight improvement on bars happened during the recent years. Partly because of the introduction of grips but mostly because of the special attention the apparatus has got, the girls improved on form and execution, some even approaching new type of skills and combinations.

Still, the progress is hardly visible because of the new symptom of Romanian gymnastics: inconsistency. …

Bars

Click PLAY or watch Olivia’s Bars on YouTube. (2000-2001 division) No free hips. That’s a start. 🙂