weightless acrobatics

Astronaut Al Bean on Skylab 3. A trained springboard diver.

A great way to see how “tilt twist” works.

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(via Trampoline Pundit)

want to play Bossaball?

.…Bossaball combines football,soccer tricks with volleyball and extreme gymnastics. Visit bossaballsports.com for more information.

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Bossaball is played in Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Kuwait, Ecuador and Saudi Arabia. And more.

(via GymPower Vriend)

Greg Roe – insane Tramp

Oct 12, 2013

… This is the last insane trick series for the moment but ill be doing more later. 🙂

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Greg’s escalating difficulty was getting scary. I’m happy to see him taking a break.

Jim Fisher – Floor 1969

Wild routine. Handspring front to side splits.

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Back when “Floor Exercise” was exercises on Floor. (Carpet over a basketball floor, actually.)

Thanks David Niemand.

women paid 91% of men’s salary

politifact:

… “The son of a single mom, proud father of two daughters, President Obama knows that women being paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men isn’t just unfair, it hurts families. So the first law he signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act …

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Actually, it’s closer to “91 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men”.

Bad. But not as bad as we thought.

Thanks Mark.

ESPN Sport Science: Gymnastics

I’ve linked — but not embedded before — this 2011 feature.

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Don’t bother commenting on the painfully obvious Y axis confusion. The more ESPN notices gymnastics, the better.