Claudia Fragapane retired

Fantastic gymnast. Wonderful personality. An inspiration.

Raena Worley – Kentucky team 50

She’s really enjoying her final season.

Kaliya Lincoln training Moors

top Men’s NCAA routines wk 5

A great week for Illinois.

Men’s Gymnastics Ramblings has a good overview of what happened.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

NEW kids Gymnastics book

The Gym Club: Bars and Beams: A Mia and Niki Story by J. P. Daniels.

Kindle and paperback.

Rocky Mount Gymnastics team member Niki Fowler is unexpectedly removed from the team and away from her best friend, Mia Allen, by Niki’s dad, Deputy Sheriff Nick Fowler.

His reason for moving Niki to another gym is kept secret from Mia and Niki. …

Discouraged, Niki is ready to give up gymnastics, forcing Mia to try to help her friend, but her good deed causes big trouble for Niki at her new gym. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Fuzzy Benas interview

What a story!

Christy Sandmaier:

After winning national “Rookie of the Year” honors, Benas underwent shoulder surgery following his freshman NCAA season in 2022. Then, just as he came back from that injury, a pumpkin carving accident severed a nerve in his hand, requiring a four-hour surgical repair. Just two days after being medically cleared to resume training after his hand injury, Benas suffered an Achilles tendon tear while training on floor.

“Difficult doesn’t really describe it,” Benas says of his long road to recovery. “I admit there were some dark times, when I wondered if I’d be back here, but now I am and, yeah, it feels good.”

At January’s Rocky Mountain Open, Benas, competing in his first All-Around competition since April 2022, put an exclamation point on his comeback, earning the highest tally of his career, and the NCAA season to date, with a massive 85.2 six-event total. …

Inside Gymnastics – Call it a Comeback – Oklahoma’s Fuzzy Benas is back, and better than ever

trampoline in the sky

Actor, model, and adventurer Jay Alvarrez thought it would be cool to take some friends up in a hot air balloon with a trampoline suspended underneath.

… skydivers, and they are all equipped with parachutes …

Neato

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.