NCAA Champion Akash Modi

The Team and individual AA Final was a terrific show. I’m amazed how many young men from so many different schools can get through these routines. The first fall to the ground in the Friday night Championships (OU Pommels) was about the 75th routine!

Akash1 Akash Modi Stanford Univ. 90.450
2 C.J. Maestas Univ. Of Illinois 88.650
3 Bobby Baker Univ. Of Illinois 88.550
4 Trevor Howard Penn State Univ. 88.500
5 Kevin Wolting U.C. Berkeley – California 88.300
6 Allan Bower Univ. Of Oklahoma 88.250
7 Matthew Felleman Penn State Univ. 88.200
8 Kyle Zemeir U.C. Berkeley – California 87.700
9 Adrian de los Angeles Univ. Of Michigan 87.650
10 Ryan Patterson U.C. Berkeley – California 86.60
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The numbers look great. The guys were hitting.

But it’s true that NCAA judging is more lenient than international FIG. Also, there was a +0.2 stick bonus for dismounts. And the guys were sticking. 🙂

@OU_MGymnastics #TimeFor9

OU wins their 9th National Championships. At home. Congratulations. 🙂

This is a team that will be remembered by history.

1. Oklahoma 447.050
2. Stanford 440.450
3. Penn State 439.500
4. Michigan 437.650
5. Cal 432.100
6. Iowa 427.450
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Stacey Ervin’s last College meet

Michigan Coach Kurt Golder:

“He is the spirit of the team,” Golder said. “He will get you going. He is a fun guy, he’s a funny guy. He just has a spirit that is unparalleled.”

NCAA.com

One of the most watchable guys out there. NCAA is going to miss Stacey. He’d like to do stand-up Comedy.

On instagram.

https://instagram.com/p/1TKapGliaJ/

Special Needs Gymnastics

Here’s the sequel to the 2014 Grow through Movement – Special Needs VIDEO, one of my favourite edits yet from Tumbl Trak.

Tumbl Trak is proud to introduce our latest work in Special Needs Movement. In collaboration with Occupational Therapists, teachers, parents and students we are learning more every day about the incredible benefits Tumbl Trak equipment offers students with special needs.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Tumbl Trak just posted a series of videos on Special Needs Gymnastics. Browse the Grow Through Movement playlist.

Thanks to Rec specialist Carrie Lennox for the links.

Nile Wilson release series

If you want to study good, clean Horizontal Bar in 2015, there are not all that many terrific role models. Certainly Nile is one of the best.

And he’s training the big releases in series.

NCAA Men’s Team Final

Friday April 10th 8pm ET. Team and AA Champions 2015 will be decided.

Team Finals

Oklahoma looks unbeatable. I was not super impressed with P Bars and H Bar in prelims, however. They could be BETTER in Finals.

I’ll be cheering for underdogs Iowa and Cal. It’s not easy to qualify to the final 6. Trust me. Difficulty is huge. Routines are long. Many of the guys are just trying to keep each line-up together at the end of a tough season.

Men’s NCAA Championships Apr 9-11 Oklahoma links to LIVE stream & results| Facebook feeds | more social media | LIVE video | LIVE scores

graphic – Road to Nationals

MacLennan, Cockburn, Burnett, Soehn

The four athletes who will represent Team Canada in trampoline at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games were named by Gymnastics Canada on Thursday, three of whom have won five Olympic medals.

London 2012 gold medallist in women’s trampoline, Rosie MacLennan, is on the team, as is Karen Cockburn, a three-time Olympic medallist. Cockburn made it to the Olympic podium at Sydney 2000 with a bronze and then won back-to-back silver medals at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.

On the men’s side, Beijing 2008 silver medal-winner Jason Burnett, along with Keegan Soehn carry Canada’s trampoline hopes in Toronto. Soehn is the defending Pan Am men’s trampoline champion when from the games in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2011.

Olympic.ca

Cockburn

An intimidating line-up. Keegan Soehn trains in Alberta. The other 3 legends train in the host city. Trampoline is kind of a big deal in Toronto. 🙂