Justin Karstadt wins Canada Winter Games

Congratulations.

Justin Karstadt is from Futures Gymnastics in Mississauga where he is coached by Zhaohui Huang and Steven Sugrim.

1. Justin Karstadt ONT 82.234
2. Félix Dolci QUE 81.300
3. Matthew Halickman QUE 80.217

full AA results

0.1 dismount stick bonus.

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Justin will be be competing for University of Minnesota next year.

Felix13yr-old Felix was in the lead up until the dismount of his Horizontal Bar routine. Unfortunately he under rotated his double twisting double layout.

Too bad.

That would have made history. Félix is very good. Very young.

See the AA podium on Facebook.

Gymnastics coach Natalia Laschenova

Do you remember Natalia?

She is an Olympic Gold medalist with the Soviet Team from Seoul 1988. Second AA at the 1989 Worlds.

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.

Since 1999 Natasha’s been coaching in the USA, producing a number of College scholarship gymnasts. Those include her daughter Sasha Tsikhanovich.

But the family has had immigration problems in the States.

They would consider moving to Canada or elsewhere. She has letters of reference from Nellie Kim, Marta Karolyi, Kathy Kelly, Svetlana Boginskaya, Yevgeny Marchenko, Elena Piskun. And more.

If you are looking for a great coach, email sportsmen66 (a) gmail.com to get her details.

LSU 197.350 -197.300 Auburn

If you haven’t had a chance to watch the LSU/Auburn meet from Friday yet, you really should. High-quality gymnastics in a competitive meet that went down to the final routine and was not defined by judging insanity (almost entirely). It was a good reminder of what’s fun about college gymnastics.

I have to think that if Caitlin Atkinson had been in on floor, Auburn would have won. …

Balance Beam Situation – Week 6 Rankings and RQS Outlook

Click PLAY or watch LSU highlights on YouTube.

That was Auburn’s highest team score EVER.

We’re looking forward to Florida at LSU on Friday. That will likely decide who’s number #2 and who’s #3 going into next week. 🙂

Al Fong on wrist wrap

He’s not a fan of Tiger Paws.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Gymnasts do get dependent on Tigerpaws and other permanent wrist supports.

related – Full Twist on wrist taping for coaches

Marta on Kyla and Aly

Martha Karolyi talks about 2012 Olympic gold medalists Kyla Ross and Aly Raisman as they chase a second Olympic dream.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.