Zachary Clay and Jackson Payne out with injury. Ken Ikeda and René Cournoyer in.
USA PanAm team named
Madison Desch – GAGE
Rachel Gowey – Chows
Amelia Hundley – Cincinnati
Emily Schild – Everest Gymnastics
Megan Skaggs – Gymnastics Academy of Atlanta
alternates: Nia Dennis, Felicia Hano, Lauren Navarro
Aly Raisman – ESPN Body Issue
Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman spoke with reporter Morty Ain about what it was like to take it all off for ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue and how much work goes into a one-and-a-half minute routine. …
I’ve never had an eating disorder, and I’m proud of that. I think gymnastics in the past had a bad reputation for that, but it’s not an issue anymore. I’ve never seen an issue among the girls on the national team.
I think imperfection is beauty. Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I’ve learned to love them. I don’t even think of it as a flaw anymore because it’s made me into the athlete that I am. …
Aly Raisman: ‘Everything I put into my body is for gymnastics’
Click through to watch the video interview.
Rebeca Andrade – “2016 is my dream”
Rebeca is out for the coming year with an ACL injury. It’s possible she could still compete the Rio Olympics. Let’s hope it happens.
She’s with Dr. Caio D’Elia, the same surgeon who repaired Sergio Sasaki’s ACL earlier this year.
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via GymFever2012
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. …
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.
drills for connecting back handsprings
Great advice from Nick Blanton.
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surfboard acrobatics
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook. The good stuff starts at about 30sec.
Thanks George.
Happy Canada Day
In commemoration, here are a few Canadian Olympians you might know.
what does Shawn Johnson eat?
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