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It was a host of firsts in the Trampoline world: American Charlotte Drury made Trampoline history for the United States by becoming the first American woman to win a World Cup title in Trampoline Gymnastics at the first-ever Minsk World Cup in Belarus.

Drury, a former Artistic gymnast who trained alongside 2012 Olympic gold medallists McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross (USA) for several years before switching to Trampoline, won the Individual Women’s competition …

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In the absence of World Tumbling champion Jia Fangfang (CHN), Canada’s Jordan Sugrim stepped up to take her first World Cup title in the discipline (63.700), ahead of Russia’s Ekaterina Gaas (63.400) and Emily Smith (CAN, 62.400).

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Newcomer Alexander Mironov (RUS, 73.200) won the Men’s title, ahead of Dzmitry Darashuk (BLR), who brought Belarus its fifth medal of the World Cup with silver (71.100). Canada’s Jonathon Schwaiger won bronze (70.400).

“I couldn’t have asked for more,” said Denis Vachon, who coaches Smith, Schwaiger and Sugrim in Burlington, Ontario and is himself a former World gold medallist in Double Mini Trampoline. …

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FIG – Charlotte Drury makes history with first Trampoline World Cup title

Click through to FIG for links to results including World Cup Rankings.

Personal shout out to Jon Schwaiger who was a bit of an assistant coach for me in 2007. An Artistic gymnast until age-16, he’s still getting stronger and stronger. I’m impressed.

Trampoline Pundit has commentary.

Aggressive single pommel Russians!

16.500 (D:7.4, E:9.1)

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Max Whitlock is one of a handful of guys who have the chance to defeat Kohei Uchimura for the first time since the 2008 Olympics.

Max won the London Open with 89.70. Will Banthorpe points out he got that score competing only a safe 2/1 twist Yurchenko, with a fall on H Bar and putting his hands down on dismount. If Max hits, he could be close.

No doubt Kohei has harder routines prepared, waiting for the day he needs them.

(via gymnastikfabriken)

June 2015.

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That would be my 4th trip to Africa over the past 2 years. I’m becoming an old Africa hand.

Safe to declare the Pitt gymnasts the BEST dancers … in this video. 🙂

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via @ArabianPF_blog

You’re going to need one of these Jetpacks.

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(via engadget)

Nadia’s the teacher. Louis Smith some sort of mad professor.

Entertaining. For the younger audience, at least 🙂

The judges and the professionals perform their grand final showcase.

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Still resigned since May 30th, this report seems to say.

Belu and Bitang no longer coaches Gymnastics Olympic team and not going to the World Cup in China: “The decision is final” (Romanian)

Lacramioara Moldovan, Lucian Sandu and Cristian Moldovan will be the coaches going to Nanning.

via GymFever2012

The British Teams have been announced. And look very strong.

Gymnastics is booming in Great Britain.

Featuring some of the predicted stars.

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Rob Deatley at Calgary Gymnastics Centre alerted me to this state-of-the-art software.

Risk Assure is a web-based software system that helps child activity centers protect themselves from liability. With RiskAssure, you can be sure that your equipment is cataloged, maintenance is performed on time and incidents—when they occur—are handled quickly, correctly, and professionally. RiskAssure can make sure that your students are the daring ones, not you. …

RiskAssure has a retail price of $95/month, but only costs $49/month for Charter Subscribers at this time …

riskassure.net

If you are responsible for risk management at your club, click PLAY or watch a detailed summary on YouTube.

Contact Frank Sahlein or Barbara Anne Elliott at 3rd Level Consulting if you want to chat to a real human being.