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National Championships 2014 are history. 🙂

Becca from Gymnastike posted results.

Vault
1. Tsang, Briannah
2. Chant, Maeghan
3. Peterman, Kirsten

Bars
1. Black, Ellie
2. Onyshko, Isabela
3. Moors, Victroia

Beam
1. Onyshko, Isabela
2. Peterman, Kirsten
3. Merkle, Stefanie

Floor
1. Moors, Victoria
2. Chant, Maeghan
3. Merkle, Stefanie

official results

Ellie elected to compete only Bars, resting her foot. An injury from many years ago that bothers her from time to time.

Check Tori’s Moors from the Final.

//instagram.com/p/orZhuZxias/embed/

Floor
1. Morgan, Scott
2. Loran, Anderson
3. Smith, Hugh

Pommel
1. Clay, Zachary 14,500
1. Cruz, Evan 14,500
3. Smith, Hugh

Rings
1. Stanescu, Robert 15,150 (6,800)
2. Morgan, Scott 14,550 (6,400)
3. Smith, Hugh 14,100 (5,800)
4. Lytwyn, Kevin 14,000 (5,700)

Vault
1. Morgan, Scott
2. Gazer, Wolfe
3. Cachia, Damian

P Bar
1. Gafuik, Nathan
2. Clay, Zachary
3. Mitchell, Taylor

H Bar
1. Paterson, Cory
2. Loran, Anderson
3. Lytwyn, Kevin

official results

Rings and Pommels are critical for Canada in future Team competitions.

Click PLAY or watch Scott Morgan’s Rings on YouTube.

Coach Vali told me Scott got 0.2 less in start score than they had hoped.

Click PLAY or watch Zachary Clay’s Pommels on YouTube.

Ken Ikeda, our Pommel man, was injured on Vault landing. Jackson Payne, another of our Pommel guys, is just returning from 2 years away in Korea. Anderson Loran has strong Pommels, too, but did not compete that apparatus this competition.

New National Coach Tony Smith will be fitting the pieces together to come up with the highest Team score. With potential for individual apparatus Finals.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzEyNzQ2MDg5?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more videos on Gymnastike

1. Padurario, Ana
2. Chrobok, Jade
3. Fiorito-Laplante, Molly
4. Pouliot, Enya
5. Jurca, Victoria-Georgianna
6. de Jong, Haley

full results (BONUS included)

Click PLAY or watch Ana’s FX on YouTube.

He’s a God. What can you say?

Jason Burnett threw it as a mount in the Team competition at CDN National Championships 2014.

//instagram.com/p/opHTvDPqv1/embed/

Jason holds the difficulty record for Trampoline. And has plenty of room for improvement. 🙂

Gigi Khazback Farid interviewed me on WOGymnastikA.

Topics include:

• banning the Produnova vault
• Vault landing mats
• restructuring of World Cups
• FIG Code
• FIG Sport Medicine, Sport Science, Education
• Gymnastics blogging
• Best of the Gymternet

Click through for my answers.

Catching Up With Coach Rick McCharles of Gymnastics Coaching

FIG judges are supposed to be consistently differentiating these E layouts on Beam …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… from these D layouts on Beam.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The RESULT is that “borderline” layouts often get credited E-part if you are a NAME gymnast from a NAME nation. Anyone else will not be credited an E-part.

They’ve built in subjectivity.

A layout is a layout. Deductions should come out of the E score.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Taiso Gymnastcs is building a great new facility. Hopes to open for July 1st.

The pits were designed by one former gymnast, Paul Koopman. And dug by another former gymnast, Billy Bentley.

Those will be “suspended”, the foam on top of a tight sprung trampoline. (think Tumbl Trak)

If logged into Facebook, you should be able to see more photos of the gym construction in progress via Warren Long’s Facebook.