Gymnastics Coaching.com

This is cool. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

(via Dan Kendig)

One by one, little gymnasts, in the arms or Tulsa firefighters, were carried to safety, as the rain poured down.

Parents, in tears, couldn’t get to their babies fast enough.

Sixty people, mostly children, were inside Aim High Academy in Sand Springs when tornado sirens started screaming. …

Tornado Destroys Sand Springs Gymnastics Studio

Update – People who want to help rebuild can contribute to a gofundme account.

via @GymCastic

Trampoline was invented and first popularized in the U.S.A. This man was one of the main builders of the Olympic Sport.

Jeff Hennessy of Broussard, La., a noted trampoline coach whose athletes won a total of 26 World medals and former chairman of the International Trampoline Federation’s Technical Committee, passed March 24.

“Jeff was a genuine man and a pioneer for the sport of trampoline,” said Steve Penny, president and CEO of USA Gymnastics. “His legacy is evident in the program’s leadership today and how far the sport has come.” …

USAG

His last book is available for $11.95.

A Successful Guidebook of Twisting Single and Multiple Somersaults

Vault, Bars
Floor, Pommels, Rings

See those 5 apparatus on the Liukin Tumblr

Courtney McGregor (NZ) qualified to the Vault final. Bianca Mann (RSA) to the Bar final. Congratulations.

Here’s the official post from the organizers – Day 1: Qualifications events. Top 3 qualifiers on all apparatus are listed.

official results

Jake Dalton qualified 2nd on Floor.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She has very high start scores on Bars and Beam. Will be competing Jesolo.

Hits and wins. Again. Does this guy ever train? He’s always competing. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Cottbus on YouTube. 16.250 = D 7.10 / E 9.150

The goal is to make a documentary about an incredible PE program. To inspire schools to improve the quality of Physical Education.

In 1957 there was no PE program more impressive than the one at La Sierra High. Their results were so amazing that the program captured the attention of President John F. Kennedy, who announced his famous challenge for America to make a “Great National Effort” to become physically fit. Excitement surrounded La Sierra’s PE curriculum. Eventually over 4,000 schools across the nation followed this program.

…until PE programs were subject to budget CUTS and Kennedy’s goal for physical fitness for our children was virtually forgotten. …

indiegogo

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… The rate of obesity among children and adolescents in the United States has nearly tripled between the early 1980s and 2000. It has however not changed significantly between 2000 and 2006 with the most recent statistics showing a level just over 17 percent. …

related – A flood in 2014 shut down the school gym.

Did he compete his HUGE new skill?

Sadly, no. But if Kenzo had not been there with an astonishing 7.6 difficulty start, Zapata’s 6.7 would have been impressive. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Javier Collados)

Yet another variation on the traditional skateboard. Or traditional inline skates.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via NPR)

The University of Bridgeport tallied 195.225 points on the way to capturing its seventh consecutive ECAC Division II Women’s Gymnastics Championship on Saturday afternoon at Southern Connecticut State University. The Owls placed second with 191.875 points, while West Chester University finished third with a mark of 190.600.

Senior Sasha Tsikhanovich (Marysville, Ohio) was named the 2015 ECAC Gymnast of the Year for the Purple Knights after capturing first place finishes on bars, floor and the all-around. Tsikhanovich put together top scores of 9.875 on bars, 9.975 on floor and a total of 39.325 in the all-around. …

ecacsports

195.225 would beat a LOT of Division I teams. 🙂

I couldn’t find Sasha’s 9.975 Floor routine on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch some of her Bars on YouTube.