Lauren Mitchell ACL

Lauren Mitchell’s hopes of competing at a third Olympics at Rio next year appear to be over.

And the star WA gymnast’s glittering international career may well have ended a few weeks short of her 24th birthday …

Mitchell had been due to head to South Korea with Australian teammates — Georgia-Rose Brown, Emma Nedov and Mary-Anne Monckton — for the 2015 World Universiade yesterday.

It is understood Mitchell was working on her floor routine when she landed awkwardly, causing a suspected rupture of her anterior cruciate ligament. …

Yahoo

Lauren Mitchell
Lauren Mitchell

related – Arabian Punch Front – Gymnastics Injuries Apr-Jun

The list consists of national team members that have had some injury that keeps them out of competition. …

This is a dangerous sport. 😦

Pommels – Kaya defeats Kameyama

1. Kazuma Kaya 6.9/15.650
2. Kohei Kameyama 7.2/15.550
3. Takuto Kakitani 6.8/15.350

Kohei Kameyama is the 2013 World Pommel Champion. But he was beaten at Japanese Championships by this excited young guy.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Kazuma Kaya 6.9/15.650

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Kohei Kameyama 7.2/15.550

Kameyama is still the stronger Pommel man, in my opinion. But Kaya was named to Japan’s 2015 World’s Team.

new Beam mount for Peng Peng?

Click PLAY or watch it on instagram.

 
via Nico on GymFever2012

U.S. National Team leg conditioning

This (very difficult) program credited to Mihai Brestyan. Presented by Tammy Biggs. Posted by Don Houlton.

Don and IGI hosted an EDGE (Elite Developmental Gymnastics Education) Symposium June 19-20, 2015. Tammy Biggs & Todd Gardiner explained what’s required to get into the USA Elite system.

As a sample, here’s the kind of leg strength and endurance they look for.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Beth Tweddle on menarche

Menarche is the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding …

From both social and medical perspectives, it is often considered the central event of female puberty …

Girls experience menarche at different ages. …

The average age of menarche is about 12.5 years in the United States, 12.72 in Canada, 12.9 in the UK …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – BBC – Beth Tweddle on the problems of puberty for young sportswomen

(via Gymnastics News Network)