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double back progressions

GymneoTV just posted another visually superb tutorial.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=689452627751485

Nice to see the demonstrator show hands on shins. 🙂

Charlie Tamayo – double double

Charlie goes BIG as a parent.

He and wife Nicole now have two sets of twins. 🙂

National Gymnastics Day USA

USAG:

All gymnasts, coaches, gymnastics clubs and fans are invited to turn upside down and show us how you play on Saturday, September 21, 2013. Take photos and share them on the USA Gymnastics Facebook page.

Goal of National Gymnastics Day (PDF):

To increase excitement for the sport of gymnastics and to communicate the healthy benefits that gymnastics fosters while teaching the importance of charitable outreach.

McKayla, Kyla and – Charlotte Drury

Gymnastike:

The McKayla Maroney/Kyla Ross friendship has been well publicized.

A decade after first meeting, training together, and ultimately building a strong bond, Maroney and Ross each earned their place on the five person 2012 Olympic Team. And if that weren’t enough, they went on to win a historic gold medal for Team USA. Together. It is truly a fairy tale story, but that story is not complete.

What many may not know is that there was a third teammate – a third friend. Her name is Charlotte Drury. And just like Maroney and Ross, Drury is a world class athlete with Olympic potential. Drury just chose a slightly different path. …

read more – Maroney, Ross and Drury: The Gymnastics Fairy Tale

NCAA Champions Rings

🙂

https://twitter.com/WackoMackoo/status/381199683156078592/

wedding proposal on wakeboard

Former Avant Coeur gymnast Brynn Hathaway is in a viral video. 🙂

Boyfriend (former gymnast) Matthew Gencarella:

As a man you have one opportunity to do the biggest surprise of your life, your proposal. This was my way of creating that once-in-a-lifetime, never-been-done, proposal and having some fun in the process…This is My Proposal! Brynn Hathaway I love you!!!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It’s featured on Glamour magazine.

Luke Carson out of Worlds

Here’s a rare injury of note. Broken leg on take-off from Vault.

… Less than two weeks before Carson was set to leave for the World Championships, he traveled to Lowestoft, England for a pre-Worlds camp with the Great Britain team. Everything was going according to plan and seemed normal until a bad punch on the springboard leading into his vault went terribly wrong.

“I took off on the springboard and that’s when I felt the most excruciating pain in my left tibia,” Carson wrote. “I flew through the air and landed on my back screaming in pain. The ambulance came soon after. After X-rays were taken, I am sorry to say I have shattered my tibia.”

The injury in and of itself is odd, happening on the springboard versus the landing. Doctors even believe that an unknown existing stress fracture may be the cause of all of the damage. This latest turn in an unusually unlucky series of events for Carson couldn’t have come at a worse time. Not only will he undoubtedly be out of Worlds but his career could be over.

All Flipped Out

Photo via @LukeCarson23

Unlike the ladies of the SEC in College Gymnastics, Luke is one of many, many Artistic gymnasts who struggled financially to continue in his sport to the highest level.

At age-25, Mette Hulgaard still lives at home in order to afford to train for her 6th World Championships.

Much higher priority for sports organizations world wide should be funding of their top athletes.

Check in your nation. Compare the salaries of the employees of your Federation with what your top athletes are compensated.