Coach Hegyi Ciprian posted photos of the new pit in Arad, Romania.
Looks like they are gluing a layer of foam cubes to the bottom.
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Sochi rainbow gloves
🙂
Warm.Good.Yours. Welcome #Sochi2014 official mittens! With 80+ different flags. Choose yr flag, support yr team! pic.twitter.com/JUEPYdvG2E
— Sochi 2014 (@Sochi2014) October 2, 2013
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Sochi 2014 joins Winter Olympic mitten craze
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Mary Lou Retton – Radio Shack
Magnificent 7 + Ellen
Ellen DeGeneres was on the Gold medal team? 🙂
Our long lost teammate! Magnificent 7 + Ellen = Awesome 8? #GoTeamUSA @TheEllenShow "Happy #ThrowbackThursday! pic.twitter.com/VAP00Gq72D
— Kerri Strug (@kerristrug96) January 24, 2014
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tips on Floor choreography
Guest post by Xavier Diamond, co-owner of TUNEGYM:
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not so hard to choreograph a good routine. All you need is a sense of rhythm, a passion for gymnastics, an endless source of patience and boundless energy!
Got all that covered?
If you’re ready, here are some more tips on how to get started being a gymnastics coach.
1. Assess the skills of your gymnast
2. Get them involved in the process
3. During practice, patience and repetition is key
4. Never make your budding gymnast do anything she’s uncomfortable with
5. Always be encouraging and motivating during practices
read the entire article – 5 Best Tips How to Choreograph a Winning Gymnastics Routine (WORD)
Floor music on TUNEGYM $25 each.
Lloimincia Hall 10.0 FX
Love it or hate it, there’s no way to forget Mince’s Floor.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I love it. 🙂
Lloimincia Hall capped a record night with a 10.0 on floor in the final performance of the night as No. 3 LSU disposed of seventh-ranked Alabama, 197.650-196.825, in front of 8,055 fans, the second-largest crowd in school history, Friday night in the Maravich Center.
LSU (3-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) posted the fifth-highest team score in school history with a 197.650 with a 49.575 on vault, 49.400 on bars, 49.125 on beam and 49.550 on floor.
glimmer of hope for Temple
PHILADELPHIA – January 28, 2014 (WPVI) — Coaches and students at Temple University got to state their case … to try to save their team. A closed door meeting was held to discuss the university’s decision to cut several varsity sports. …
Temple President Neil Theobald said this is not something he wanted to do, but they are simply so overextended.
“I certainly will consider everything that was said today. I did hear some new information that I hadn’t heard before,” Theobald admitted. “And we will come back to the board with our consideration of everything that was said today and see we’re open to all ideas.”
I was at a South Africa training camp this weekend with Jesse Kitzen-Abelson, MAG Coach at Pinetown Gymnastics. Jesse was a two-year co-captain for Temple, graduating 2011.
Would Jesse be a coach today if the Temple program had not existed?
sports Mom goes too far
Get Me Psyched blog had a widely shared post last week:
Tags: children, children in sports, healthy-living, mental toughness, parents in sports, positive coaching, pushy parents, sports
… The coach stood there and stared at me. And then it hit me. And I left like an idiot. I was pushing and pushing my daughter to do something that I actually thought was scary and insane. I wouldn’t get up on the high dive, but I was screaming at my daughter and in the meantime I was ruining my relationship with her because I wanted to be special. I wanted to be supermom. I didn’t realize nor care that my daughter just wanted to have fun. She had no intention of competing in diving.
I looked at the coach, smiled, and said “Well played coach, well played.”
Well Played Coach, Well Played.Click through to read the whole story.
Greg Marsden 1000 career wins
Congratulations to one of the good guys.
Utah gymnastics coach Greg Marsden earned his milestone 1,000th win on Saturday, with his fourth-ranked Utes taking down the No. 19 Arizona State Sun Devils at Wells Fargo Arena. …
For the first time since the opener, the Utes didn’t have to count a fall on the balance beam, allowing them to earn their best score of the season.
“That made me happier than anything else,” he said. …
He was hired in 1976 to establish a team so the Utes could meet Title IX requirements. Under his guidance, the program became one of the most successful women’s sports in the country, winning 10 national titles and becoming the only team to qualify for all 32 NCAA championships.
Here’s the VIDEO.
(via Utah Gymnastics)
