Gabby wants Jesolo

… Douglas said her immediate goal is to be named to compete at the City of Jesolo Trophy on March 28-29 in Italy. It will be Douglas’s first competition since winning two golds – in the all-around and team competition as a Fierce Fiver – at the 2012 London Olympics.

She knows she’ll need to prove her readiness to National Team Coordinator Martha Karolyi at the next camp.

Kittia Carpenter, who has been her coach for the last seven months, believes Douglas is on track. ..

Gabby’s golden goal: Be bigger and better than 2012

Click PLAY or watch her standing 1/1 on YouTube.

(via GymCastic)

Olivia Dunne – piked Stalder 1/1

An interesting angle for this skill.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Or should it be two skills? Piked Stalder with late 1/1 pirouette? 🙂

That’s not a skill for every gymnast. Perhaps only 1 in a hundred should pursue it seriously. You need to not only be very flexible, but also have specific body proportions.

related – Tammy Biggs drill for beginners

doing it for the Team

Brandie Jay.

reality TV – Coaching Bad

In a nutshell, several coaches from various sports are brought together to work with an anger counselor. This is all done under watchful former NFL player and current motivational speaker Ray Lewis. …

Gymfinity – Reality television is nothing like reality

Gymfinity was unimpressed, to say the least.

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.

I hope they never add a Gymnastics coach.

Workout on Wednesday – U Michigan

Triple Twist:

Wednesday, January 28th, we visited the University of Michigan and got an inside look at how one of the top teams in the country trains …

Video edited by Chris Saccullo.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Go Blue. 🙂

highest scores of 2015

Martina RizzelliOnce again, Albert from The All Around is posting the highest WAG scores of the year (2015 so far) in FIG meets without bonus.

Yulia Biryulia (RUS) 56.700 has the highest AAso far. Martina Rizzelli (ITA) 23.0 has the highest total credited D-score.

TAA 2015 Highest Scores

TAA is also posting highest Men’s AA scores.

I’ve added links in the right hand navigation.