Epke and Fabian

… The story of 2 friends, 2 rivals.. Epke Zonderland (NED) & Fabian Hambüchen (GER) …

Produced by Sports2Visuals.com …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Many are pondering Grandi’s unofficial proposal to “reduce the number of team members from five to four gymnasts“.

Instead of 5-4-3, it would go to 4 on the team, maximum 4 compete / apparatus – 3 scores to count towards team. Maximum 2 / nation in the final.

I assume.

That would free up more spots for specialists from around the world. Especially from smaller nations.

It’s worth considering.

The old system ALMOST did not qualify Epke to London. Any gymnast who might win an Olympic medal should be in the Olympics.

Brinn Bevan – Floor

A Floor routine with some style. Some originality. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (14.350 in the AA)

Note Brinn omits the ghastly pseudo body wave prior to the last tumbling line. He should gain +.1 for that. (Everyone else considers it compulsory.)

(via gymnastikfabriken)

Gymnastics Coaching on twitter

I’ve been a twitter skeptic from the start. Only relying on the micro-blogging service for LIVE events.

LIVE events like World Championships. Twitter’s the very best way to follow what’s going on in Antwerp. Search for #WChAntwerp

Yet — for some reason — I’ve been using twitter more of late. Regularly following my interactions feed in a browser.

As an experiment, I’ve added a RECENT TWEETS display in the right hand navigation.

!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+”://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);

Nabieva and Moustafina

Looking forward to seeing them back together at Worlds — at least in the training gym. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Montage Monday)

Kerri Strug Song

GymCastic:

Spanny’s Big Fake Smile just found this little ditty dedicated to Kerri Strug.

Gym Nerds, we have our very own Weird Al Yankovic!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It’s comedy. Not history. Laugh … and move on. 🙂

Kyla Ross – Beam training

Solid. Careful. Confident.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Njc4NzIwNDEy?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of Beyond the Routine on gymnastike.org

attempt 3 quads Tramp

Greg Roe:

… first ever attempt at three quads on a trampoline. …

Click PLAY or watch Greg on YouTube.

The escalation of difficulty in training on Tramp is scary.

Gymnastics – Brazilian TV ad

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The sponsor of that ad is offering “30,000” to Arthur Zanetti’s Gym if that video gets more than 150,000 views.

That’s a lot of hits.