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National Injury Database

repost from last January___

Dr. Bill Sands as put up some preliminary data from his proposed crowdsourced national injury database for gymnastics.

Only 103 injury reports, so far, but here’s a sample graphic showing the kind of visuals that can be produced.

See other graphs like this here.

The more injury reports submitted, the better. If you’ve got some injury stats from your club, please click over to gymnasticsinjurydata.com and contribute. It’s completely anonymous. This could be very valuable.

Oklahoma 197.650

In the first of two competitions this weekend. LSU up next.

@OU_WGymnastics:

OKLAHOMA WINS! The #Sooners finish with a 197.650 and now own the nation’s top three team scores of 2015! #BOOMER”

http://instagram.com/p/ycngzMOx1C/

Elite Canada links

Be aware that not many of the top Seniors peaked for this competition, MAG or WAG. Most did not compete AA. It was a good opportunity for up-and-coming contenders to make a splash.

WAG Code of Points app

$2.99

Android only, for now. Apple version in the works.

Filter all 500+ elements from the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Code Of Points by apparatus, difficulty value and element group.

It’s called Gymnastics Code of Points (WA) in the Google PLAY store.

Elite Canada schedule

Update – Information is being posted on the Gymnastics Canada Facebook.

___original post:

Gymnastics Canada is notoriously poor at communicating their stories. One of the poorest of the top Gymnastics nations.

If you go to their home page right now, you’ll see no indication that one of the biggest competitions of the seasons is happening.

If you click through to NEWS, there’s no news about Elite Canada. 😦

Trois-Rivières, Quebec
JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There’s no competition today Thursday, only men’s physical ability testing.

MEN’S Thursday schedule
MEN Thursday

Olympic gymnast Ellie Black begins her 2015 season this weekend at Elite Canada in Trois-Rivieres, Que. …

With a World Cup event in Texas in early March, and an international team competition in Italy later in March, Black, a two-time Canadian all-around champion, will limit herself to competing on the balance beam this week. …

Herald

Tori Ellie

We’re hoping to see these two Olympians back together again. 🙂

WOMEN’S Thursday schedule
WAT Thursday

I’m getting the schedule from Gymnastics BC who posted the Technical document here.

NCAA Gymnastics

Lauren Hopkins and Sarah Chrane post the most detailed women’s NCAA coverage. Here’s their wrap-up from last weekend – Gymternet – NCAA Meet-by-Meet Coverage

Samantha Peszek could have retired from competitive gymnastics last year. Instead, her scores are soaring in her final UCLA season.

The fifth-year senior is a 2008 Olympic silver medalist … . Peszek, 23, ranks No. 1 in the NCAA in the all-around (39.588 average) and on balance beam (9.917). …

Olympian Peszek making most of final college gymnastics season

The best men’s NCAA report after last weekend was posted by Ron Noe.

Stick it Media – Penn State Highlights Weekend in College Men’s Gymnastics

Akash Modi leads the men’s AA rankings by a LARGE margin.

A link to the College rankings is available from any page of this site in the top of the right hand navigation – NCAA Road to Nationals.

Mary-Anne Monckton – rehab

Mary-Anne as been posting weekly video updates on her progress. The exercises are good – I particularly like the drills on the Spring Board – but the video editing is even better.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.