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International Gymnast:

Ukrainian gymnast Angelina Kysla finished fifth all-around Saturday evening at the 3rd Mexico Open in Acapulco, but her artistry brought her a very valuable prize.

An expert panel that included Olympic gymnastics legends Nadia Comaneci (Romania) and Svetlana Boginskaya (Belarus) chose Kysla as the winner of the GK Prize for Elegance among the female gymnasts in Acapulco.

Her reward? A one-of-a-kind white leotard valued at approximately $10,000. …

Kysla Wins One-of-a-Kind $10,000 Leotard

Let’s hope more competitions add significant “Prizes for Elegance”. It’s one way to promote beautiful gymnastics outside the rules.

FIG – Spain, Colombia victorious at Third Abierto Mexicano de Gimnasia:

Men’s and women’s All-around scores were combined in the randomly assigned mixed pairs event, which paired male and female gymnasts by draw. Chusovitina (UZB) and Uematsu won the mixed pairs title with a combined score of 142.850 points …

That link has AA results.

Triple Twist compiled intrasquad vids from many of the top teams.

Defending Florida is the team to beat in 2014. (Though I’ve still not seen results from the annual GymInfo Pre-Season Coaches Poll.)

Click PLAY or watch Florida’s VAULT/BARS on YouTube.

Check Forida’s upgraded training facility. (VIDEO)

I expect Balance Beam Situation in 2014 to again be my main source of detailed and nuanced analysis online.

2014 Balance Beam Situation Preseason Ranking:

1. FLORIDA
2. OKLAHOMA
3. ALABAMA
4. UCLA
5. LSU
6. UTAH
7. MICHIGAN
8. GEORGIA
9. STANFORD
10. NEBRASKA
11. MINNESOTA
12. OREGON STATE

As that posts mentions, Stanford could and should be higher. UCLA … you never know.

Now that Jean-Claude Van Damme is cool again … Don of Oakville Acrobatic Team alerted me to splanking:

So you’ve heard of “planking”: performing a facedown, lying flat position in strange places well now it’s time to start “splanking“. “Splits-planking” or “Splanking” is doing the splits in random public places . …

LIKE (or avoid) the Splanking Facebook page.

Kevin Kelley is the head football coach at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, Arkansas. In games, he instructs his team to never punt, to never receive punts, and almost always onside kick. …

Kottke

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Since Kelley took over, Pulaski is 124-22 and has won three state titles.

It’s numbers. It’s Moneyball.

Is there a different BETTER way for your athletes to meet their goals?

Think different.

Pipe is Oleg’s weak apparatus. Recall that he looked like a nervous Level 10 at Worlds. A disaster.

I was wondering what kind of set he must have hit to score 92.165 AA.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Pretty clean. But fortunate that current Horizontal Bars rules are so lame that they do not require serious releases parts or — better — series of release moves in order to score.

(via Gymnast #391)

I like John to challenge for an AA medal at the Rio Olympics.

You need both Pommels and Rings to aspire to that podium.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (4 handstands)

John was disappointed with his 5th AA finish at the DTB World Cup.

Oleg finally HIT. 🙂

Congratulations.

1. Oleg Verniaiev 92.165
2. Fabian Hambuchen 90.264
3. Daniel Purvis 89.931.

full AA results (PDF)

DTB World Cup

graphic via via gymfanconfessions on Tumblr

MIGHT be good strategy. Huge start scores early in the Quad. Stabilize those routines in the lead-up to Rio.

Here’s a good news story. 🙂

Mail Online:

‘I was determined to walk down the aisle’: Trampolinist left paralysed fulfills her wedding dream thanks to her own tenacity and support of fiance

Natalie Burr, 30, from Maidstone, Kent was an Olympic hopeful

Was training for World Championships when she fell in 2007

Fireman fiancé Shane helped her recover and they married in 2009

Became a mother to daughter Holly in 2012

Now coaches trampolining

Couple shortlisted for Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards

Read more …

Kim Dowis filmed the workout.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NjE2NzI1Mzgz?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

I’m a sucker for these videos. It’s a guilty pleasure.

There are a number of acrobatic stunts I’ve never seen before in this edit.

The highlight for me is the very last stunt. So simple. So terrifying.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.