Strap bar.
South African Gymnastics calendar
Ana Padurariu – CDN Novice
Another great gymnast coming up coached by Yelena Davydova.
Another @geminigymnastic champion: Ana Padurariu wins #EliteCanada Novice women's AA title http://t.co/SC2XghqAdP pic.twitter.com/GSeHekx2nN
— Grace Chiu (@GraceClick) February 9, 2014
gymnastics v figure skating
Dvora Meyers:
How the differences between gymnastics and figure skating explain the winter sport’s declining popularity.
Slate – Tumbling Ice
Olympic sportsmanship
After his own miserable afternoon in the midst of the greatest 24 hours in our Olympic history, Canadian cross-country ski coach Justin Wadsworth wandered over to the finish line.
His own athletes were all eliminated early. He was crestfallen. He wanted to watch the end of the semifinal in the men’s free sprint.
As he stood there, surrounded by other officials, he spotted Russian Anton Gafarov coming over a rise. Gafarov, an early medal favourite, was struggling miserably.
He’d crashed on a quick downhill corner and broken a ski. …
read more – Canadian coach’s act of kindness in cross country skiing at Sochi Olympics reflects all of us: Kelly
1st female Olympic Ski Jumper
I am bib number one today. That means I will be the first girl EVER to ski jump in an Olympic event. ALL SMILES 🙂
— Sarah Hendrickson (@schendrickson) February 11, 2014
Elite Canada
Elite Canada Jr.
1 Woo, Rose-Kaying Gym-Richelieu 59,050
2 Olsen, Shallon Omega Gymnastics 57,650
3 Rousseau, Audrey Club Equilibrix 55,000
The junior competition was dominated by two gymnasts, Rose-Kaying Woo and Shallon Olsen, who won all five gold medals awarded in this competition.
Rose-Kaying Woo managed to take the all around title mostly due to her consistency. Her ‘easiest’ event was vault where she only had a starting value of 5.0 but managed to execute cleanly. Her biggest scoring event was beam, with 15.20 (6.7). Beware when looking through these scores though as a bonus system was used and the D scores are not in syncwith the FIG Junior Code of Points. Woo also won the event titles on bars and beam respectively. …
Click PLAY or watch Rose-Kaying Woo – prelim Bars on YouTube.
I’ve heard Rose-Kaying sometimes trains strap bar and regular bar on alternate turns, rolling down her grips each time to use straps.
Elite Canada Sr.
1 Moors, Victoria – Dynamo 56,250
2 Yu, Aleeza – Gemini 55,650
3 Black, Ellie – Halifax ALTA 55,250
Unlike the junior competition which was dominated by two gymnasts, in the senior’s meet each title went to a different gymnast:
Victoria Moors managed to take the all around. In the event finals she only competed on bars and beam placing 4th and 7th respectively. Overall, Victoria’s meet was riddled with mistakes, minor and major, but given that her main goal here was to test her new skills in a competition environment, she will be pleased with what she achieved. …
Couch Gymnast – 2014 Elite Canada
Aleeza Yu #EliteCanada Sr beam pic.twitter.com/wzpf3dFPqZ
— Grace Chiu (@GraceClick) February 9, 2014
Madison Kocian – Bars
WOGA Invitational.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Couch Gymnast:
• WOGA Classic: Sr. Results and Report
• WOGA Classic: Jr. Results and Report
Brazilian junior Rebeca Andrade dominated the all around in style, taking the title two points ahead of 2nd place Amy Tinkler.
(via GymCastic)
Acrobaddict – Joe Putignano
Publisher’s Weekly:
After reading former Olympic gymnastics hopeful Putignano’s sinister yet intoxicating memoir of addiction, recovery, and more addiction, you wind up feeling like one of his closest friends.
The first-time author, who now portrays Crystal Man in Cirque du Soleil’s traveling production of Totem, divulges what must be nearly every significant detail of his journey from the basement of his parents’ Massachusetts home, where as an 8-year-old he taught himself flips using old couch cushions; to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs …
(via FIG)
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