radissonclaire posted this GIF.
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Roxana Popa training Amanar
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tell athletes to NEVER give up
Show this video to your kids. Heather Dorniden falls in a 600m race. Gets up and still wins the 2008 Big 10 Indoor Championships.
Inspiring.
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best flyboard video yet
Aussie National Team Camp
The Women’s Artistic Gymnastics International Development Program (IDP) Clinic was held in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport last week following the Australian Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne.
98 of our best young gymnasts and their personal coaches attended the clinic representing 13 different High Performance programs and clubs from around the country.
The clinic was led by National Pathways Manager – Jo Richards. Assisting were experienced coaches:
• Peggy Liddick – National Coach;
• Nikolai Lapchine – Senior coach from the Western Australian Institute of sport;
• David Kenwright – newly appointed Women’s Gymnastics Program Manager at the Victorian Institute of Sport. David comes to us from Canada where he has a fine reputation as an expert high performance gymnastics coach;
• Liz Chetkovich – GA Women’s High Performance Manager, also lent her hand to coaching the developing athletes. Liz had an extensive coaching career during the 1980’s and 90’s at the WAIS gymnastics program; and
• Stacey Umeh – Choreographer.
read more – IDP Clinic focuses on the future
throwing a cheater off the bridge
#gymnastproblems – Wrist rips
Explaining those strange marks on your wrists.
Post by Jessica A Savona.
Manjak’s Summer Camp
Open now just over a year, Manjak’s in Toronto, Canada is offering their first ever WAG Summer training camp. Only 1 week this first summer, I guarantee it will be excellent.
Great gymnastics training. Great FUN.
July 7-11th. Three sessions a day for 5 days.
details (PDF)
AMA says Cheer is a Sport
Lucky us.
The American Medical Association is putting its weight behind designating cheerleading as a sport.
The nation’s largest doctors’ group adopted that as policy Monday at its annual meeting in Chicago. AMA members say cheerleading is as rigorous as many other activities that high schools and the NCAA consider sports. Adding it to the list would mean more safety measures for cheerleaders and proper training for their coaches.
The policy echoes one adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics two years ago. …
In related news, the AMA finally confirmed that water is wet. 🙂
At next year’s AMA meeting they will reconsider whether or not American Football is a sport. 🙂
extreme bionics?
How soon before we have the first ethical debate on whether an athlete with bionic limbs is at an advantage over athletes without them?
Update. Geoffrey Taucer sends this link for Cybathlon. The first world championships for robot-assisted parathletes. Switzerland 2016.
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Here’s the state of the art.
Hugh Herr is building the next generation of bionic limbs, robotic prosthetics inspired by nature’s own designs. Herr lost both legs in a climbing accident 30 years ago; now, as the head of the MIT Media Lab’s Biomechatronics group, he shows his incredible technology in a talk that’s both technical and deeply personal — with the help of ballroom dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis, who lost her left leg in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and performs again for the first time on the TED stage.
Watch that 19min long video presentation on TED.
related – FDA Approves Segway Inventor’s Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm
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