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Larry Cruz proposes to make a movie promoting men’s gymnastics, motivated by the need to SAVE Men’s NCAA Gymnastics.

His fundraising goal is $500,000.

The story of ten gymnast ranging from intermediate to collegiate levels give all they have physically and mentally to stand on top of the podium every competition.

We are saving the dreams of our gymnastic kids, while saving men’s gymnastics in the NCAA.

Details via that link.

Great cause. Personally I feel the budget is too high. And Larry’s promo video does not fill me with confidence that he’s the right guy to put together an inspirational movie.

(via Gymnast Crossing)

I saw this linked on GymFever. A quick overview on what grasps are what on Bars edited by WolfJump91 from Italy.

At first glance, some of the still images seem to be incorrect. It appears they are transition slides, not related to the text.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Regular grip is often called over grip, as well.

Here’s another edit – trying to describe Ono, Healy and Ling.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

🙂

Here’s the original YouTube video from Artistic Sports Academy Plus.

(via Don Anweiler )

Andy Thornton is back.

Here’s his projected 6-member Worlds Team:

Simone Biles
Kyla Ross
Rachel Gowey
Madison Kocian
MyKayla Skinner
Brenna Dowell

Alternates:
Maggie Nichols
Amelia Hundley

American Gymnast

Good call. But Marta values consistency above all. I wouldn’t be surprised if she had Kyla Ross at the top of her Team list. Kyla is money in the bank. Every time.

MyKayla and Brenna at the Secret looked like gymnasts Marta might move to the alternate positions. USA could win with almost any Team line up. But they could beat themselves if they had a disaster like Brenna’s Bars or MyKayla Floor in the 3-up, 3-count Team Final.

Fans were really upset when Lexie had the bad luck to get injured during the warm-ups of the Secret Classic. 🙂

Her surgery was successful. We’ll have to wait and see how long it takes her to come back.

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Lexie will one day compete for LSU.

For Canadian coaches. I’ll be teaching a Level 2 Technical MAG & WAG Aug 16-19th in northern B.C.

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For a Chinese gymnast, this is wildly creative routine construction.

6.7+0.1 + 8.7 = 15.5

(0.1 is Chinese bonus)

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Short documentary.

During the filming of two video shoots happening across town from each other, top tricking athletes give us an inside look into the art and science of martial arts tricking.

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(via Mackensi Emery)

On defecting from Romania:

I didn’t tell my mum. I thought she’d have a heart attack. I told my brother Adrian, who was my best friend and still is. I took him and my sister-in-law close to the Hungarian border with me. Then me and the six other gymnasts walked over the border into Hungary and from there to Austria. I went to the United States embassy and they provided me with a flight to New York. I’ve never talked about it before. It was hard that night. …

read more on the Daily Mail

Nadia with fellow Tumble judges (L-R) Craig Heap, Louis Smith, Sebastien Stella

The BBC Reality TV show starts Sat Aug 9th.

Sam Mikulak is one of many who just might be able to catch Uchimura. Someday.

He was 6th AA at 2013 Worlds. With one fall.

Click PLAY to watch quite a good feature.

http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/1_3sjkajsk/uiconf_id/12034901

(via Liukin)