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MAG World Cup Stuttgart 2013
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U.S. depth
USAG – Gymnasts invited to the first US camp of the year:
Ariana Agrapides, MG Elite
Alyssa Baumann, WOGA
Simone Biles, Bannon’s
Nadia Cho, WOGA
Nia Dennis, Buckeye
Madison Desch, GAGE
Christina Desidero, Parkettes
Brenna Dowell, GAGE
Peyton Ernst, Texas Dreams
Norah Flatley, Chow’s Gymnastics
Sarah Finnegan, GAGE
Ashley Foss, North Stars Gymnastics Academy
Emily Gaskins, Cincinnati Gymnastics
Veronica Hults, Texas Dreams
Madison Kocian, WOGA
McKayla Maroney, All Olympia
Abigail Milliet, Denton
Lauren Navarro, Charter Oak
Abby Paulson, Twin City Twisters
Elizabeth Price, Parkettes
Lexie Priessman, Cincinnati Gymnastics
Melissa Reinstadtler, Rebound Gymnastics
Kyla Ross, Gym-Max
Emily Schild, Everest Gymnastics
Polina Shchennikova, TIGAR
MyKayla Skinner, Desert Lights
Ragan Smith, Texas Dreams
Deanne Soza, Arete
Olivia Trautman, Twin City Twisters
Alexis Vasquez, Chow’s Gymnastics
Tough to compete against that line-up.
Fahrig – multiple double fronts
athletes eat and train
Dave Adlard linked to this great truism featuring a photo of Lolo Jones.
Lolo is one of 10 Americans to have qualified to both Summer and Winter Olympics. She’s competing bobsled in Sochi.
Hardy Fink 45yrs FIG Judge
The former FIG MTC Chair, current FIG Education & Academy Programs Director, has been a FIG judge since the 2nd cycle, certifying 1969 at Penn State.
So far as I know, he’s held a brevet longest of any judge in any discipline.
Receiving the Nik Stuart award 2012.
Leave a comment if you know of any MAG FIG judge active since the 1st cycle.
USA in China
Eight members of the U.S. Men’s National Team are training for a week with the Chinese National Team at the Chinese National Training Center in Beijing, China. …
Andriy Stepanchenco, coach at the U.S. Olympic Training Center; Kevin Mazeika, U.S. Men’s National Team coordinator; Nori Iwai, coach at the University of Oklahoma; Don Rackey, trainer; and Xiao Yuan, coach at the University of Michigan. …
2014 American Cup
Julia Bombach teaser
The next episode of The Hard Way To Success looks great. It features Dutch gymnast Julia Bombach.
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introducing el-grip handstand
In many MAG gyms I see Men’s coaches torturing young guys, trying to force their shoulders to be flexible for dorsal grip requirement on Horizontal Bar.
FIG certainly should have dropped the dorsal requirement long ago.
John Carroll at Surrey Gymnastics showed me a smarter, safer way to start.
He uses parallettes, having the guys rotate them as far as they can — but not all the way to el-grip handstand.
John is B.C. Men’s Technical Coordinator and judged Worlds 2013 for Canada.
Zoe and the Beam
Goodheart Books:
Our first book tells the delightful story of an 8 year old gymnast Zoe (that name is not totally by coincidence!) who learns about having a peaceful balanced mind by walking eyes closed on a practice beam on the floor.
