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Rebecca Andrade suffered a knee injury last Saturday. She ruptured the anterior cruciate ligaments and is out of all competitions for at least the next 8 months.

She’s the top Brazilian gymnast. This certainly hurts their chance to qualify a full team to the Rio Olympics. Recall that Brazil won the 12th and final team spot for the London Olympics with a miracle qualifier.

Rebeca was replaced at the last Youth Olympic Games because of a foot injury.

via Gym Blog Brazil (Portuguese)

The Universiade is an international multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The name is a combination of the words “University” and “olympiad”. The Universiade is often referred to in English as the World University Games or World Student Games …

WAG Universiade Competitors Confirmed

The 2017 Games will be hosted by Taipei.

@arfedorova edited the WAG AA competition to include just the routines, none of the fluff. That makes the meet less than 40min long!

What a GREAT idea. 🙂

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AlienWebguy put together a site for martial arts tricking called club540.com. It’s got a lot of content. Most useful is an index of the names of tricks with videos.

Here you can check what these are: Masterswipe, Double Flash Kick, Full Swipeknife, … Even the QUADRUPLE FULL TWIST. Oh. Right. We know what that is. 🙂

Check it for yourself – club540.com/tricktionary

As an sample, check Air Flare.

Donnell Whittenburg in training.

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Fans would like to see more Gymnastics sports competitors in the Summer Olympics. But IOC wants to cap those numbers. Many feel the Summer Olympics are already too big.

By comparison, for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games:

… brings the total number of events at the 2018 Olympics to 102, topping the previous Winter Olympics record high for medal events of 98 in Sochi. The number of Winter Olympic events rises with every Olympiad. At Sarajevo 1984, there were 39 medal events.

On Dec. 8, the IOC’s Agenda 2020 reforms recommended limiting the Winter Olympics to approximately 2,900 athletes and 100 events. Sochi 2014 had more than 2,800 athletes, but reportedly fewer than 2,900 in its 98 events. …

Olympics add events for Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games

Now age-40, Oksana is still going strong. Still improving.

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The founder of Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy and Performance Training in Austin, TX posted exercises in the following areas:

1 Stretching Shoulders and Lats
2 Calf Stretching
3 Improving Hip Flexor Flexibility
4 Strengthening Hip Muscles
5 Strengthening Hip Flexors
6 Strengthening Soleus Muscles
7 Landing Mechanics

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Those are all free to watch if you join CoachTube. (free)
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If you are one of those coaches with many video drills on your computer – wondering what to do with them – consider posting them to CoachTube.

You can offer your videos for free. Or charge up to $100 / user.

Click through to see the Gymnastics courses offered, so far.

related – Forbes – New Web Site Allows Coaches To Teach More Than 200 Video Courses

Put on by Frank Sahlein.

James Parent was very impressed by the event hosted May 15-16th, 2015 in Golden, Colorado.

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