add Tricking to FX?

Now that the Air Flare is established as a desirable element on Men’s Floor Exercise, why not one of the Tricking elements?

It was 1985 that Tong Fei competed Butterfly with a 1/1 twist, not so dissimilar to this shown here by Kieran Behan.

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straight arm pull-up on Rings

My first attempt.

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… Oh, that might have been Brandon Wynn. Not me. 🙂

(via Gymnastic Bodies)

Aussie Commonwealth uniforms

Ouch.

… “This is why Olympians used to perform naked,” said Elle deputy editor Damien Woolnough. …

Aussie Aussie Aussie

The Age – Dreadful Australian Commonwealth Games uniforms will challenge athletes

via @lukewiwa

cartwheel Pittsburg June 23, ’14

… 2012 Olympic all-around champion Gabrielle Douglas will be on hand as Pittsburgh-area gymnasts gather to set a world record for most simultaneous cartwheels. …

… Gabby is in Pittsburgh to promote the 2014 P&G Gymnastics Championships, scheduled for Aug. 21-24th

USAG

cartwheels

Klaus Köste – Hall of Fame

The 3-time Olympian competed well into his 60s.

Video recap of Klaus Köste’s career and achievements, as he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame on May 17, 2014, in Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Blake Hyland walks home

He’d started the day doing one thing doctors said he might never do — walking out of a Ft. Worth hospital at noon. Two hours later he walked again, along a path of love and admiration and prayer from his friends and classmates.

It was three months and a week after a crippling gymnastics accident almost cost him his life, and the 15-year old was happy to be here. …

Standing ovation for injured gymnast who returns home

Click PLAY or watch it on ABC News.

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On February 18th at a gym in Waco, TX, Blake jumped into a foam pit. He hit his shoulder on the edge of the pit “whiplashing his head into the surrounding concrete“.

There can never be any exposed concrete anywhere near a safety landing pit.

Nova Scotia Development Coach needed

Here’s an interesting coaching / administration position working out of the Gymnastics Nova Scotia Office in Halifax, Canada.

Coaching, Athlete and Club development.

Working MAG, WAG, Trampoline and Tumbling.

35 hours / week. $47,500 / year.

details (PDF)