Romanian Jr. Nationals

Bea Gheorghisor posted a summary with links.

Names to watch.

Category I
1 Andreea Munteanu (Deva) – 58.850 (D- VT 5.8/ UB 5.1/BB 6.4/ FX5.7)
2 Paula Tudorache (Dinamo)- 54.550 (D- VT 4.4/ UB 5.0/BB 5.5/ FX 5.0)
3 Ioana Nicoara (Deva) – 53.050 (D- VT 4.4/ UB 5.0/BB 5.0/ FX 4.6)

Category II (gymnasts born in 2000)
1 Anda Butuc (Dinamo) – 55.300 (D- VT 4.4?/ UB 5.7/BB 6.1/ FX 5.1)
2 Dora Vulcan (Dinamo)- 55.100 (D- VT 5.0?/ UB 3.9/BB 5.5/ FX 5.2)
3 Adela Florea (Deva) – 54.400 (D- VT 5.0/ UB 4.6/BB 5.5/ FX 4.8)

Category III – Level 4 (gymnasts born 2001)
1 Ioana Crisan (Deva) – 57.125 (D- VT 5.0/ UB 4.8/BB 6.3/ FX 5.7)
2 Olivia Campian (Deva)- 55.675 (D- VT 4.4?/ UB 5.4/BB 6.2/ FX 5.5)
3 Georgiana Juravle (Constanta) – 54.900 (D- VT 5.0/ UB 4.7/BB 5.5/ FX 5.5)

Level 3 (gymnasts born 2002)
1 Laura Iacob (Onesti) – 52.775 (D- VT ?/ UB 3.8 / BB 4.9/ FX 5.3)
2 Daniela Dumitrascu (Onesti)- 52.575 (D- VT ?/ UB 4.6/BB 5.1/ FX 4.7)
3 Nica Ivanus (Cluj) – 52.225 (D- VT ?/ UB 3.9/BB 4.6/ FX 4.8)

E scores were a bit generous.

Romanian Jr. Nationals: Results and Report

Cristian interview

In my opinion, the most competitive was the category of Juniors II, among the gymnasts born in 1999 and 2000.

Andreea Munteanu, the all around champion of Category I, showed she is on the right path on vault – beam – floor. How does she manage to maintain such a level in all meets? She is making a name for herself as the gymnast who medals in all finals she qualifies for.

Andreea is a hard working gymnast and a very good competitor. She is the leader of this generation. …

read more of the Couch Gymnast Cristian Moldovan Interview

Responsible for Bars, Cristian talks about the positive effect of introducing Grips.

ouch … UPDATED

How’s this for bad sportsmanship?

JAS:

Guys, that’s

1.) the Russian National Championship, not an international competition, &

2.) not everything that happened. If you watch the full video, you can tell that Mustafina was goofing around with Afanasyeva. There was nothing mean about it in the full video; the gif was edited in a way that just makes it look mean.

awards podium

source

via GymFever

studying great distance runners

Genetics?

Training?

Or both.

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Andrei Rodionenko on Worlds

Here’s another odd and controversial interview with the big boss of Gymnastics in Russia.

Nelli Kim, gymnasts of African heritage, Judging, Peaking, meditation, Chinese medicine.

And more.

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – Andrei Rodionenko explains Russia’s performance at Worlds

Andrei


related – Russian Gymnasts Target Six Medals in Rio (Dec 2012)

Trinidad & Tobago gymnast

Congrats to Trinidad & Tobago gymnast Marisa Dick – 50th AA at Worlds 2013.

MD

More Grace Chiu photos.

She trains at Capital City Gym Club in Edmonton.

Taylor Lindsay-Noel’s injury

For the first time I’ve seen, Taylor talks about the injury on Bars that left her partially paralyzed.

She under-rotated a toe-on double front dismount. A new Bars skill. No pit.

Every coach I’ve spoken with feels that skill is too dangerous without a pit.

Taylor is very active online. Google her. She’s moving forward.

http://taylorln.tumblr.com/
http://taylorln.wordpress.com/

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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Bar grip elastics

American Gymnast:

This video explains how girls should put on their pair of American Gymnast grips and answers one of the most common questions we receive about our grips – how to use our unique elastic band finger-locking system.

First, make sure you are putting your grips on the correct hand. For gymnastics grips with a Velcro strap, as you tighten the grips, you want to be pulling the strap in towards your body. For grips with a buckle strap, as you lay the palm of your hand down on top of the grips, you want the buckle to be on the outer most side of your hand.

Next, put your middle two fingers (i.e. ring finger and middle finger) into the finger holes of the grip. As you do this, make sure the elastic band is sticking out between your two middle fingers.

Next, twist the elastic band once and bring it down over and around the fingers and grips. Then, twist the band again and bring it back up over and around the fingers and top of the grips. Watch the video for a demonstration of this.

Now your fingers are locked securely in the finger holes and will not slip out while you are swinging on the bars. Once you do this a few times, you will quickly get the hang of it and it should only take a couple of seconds to put the elastic band into place. If you feel your fingers are secure enough in the holes without the elastic band, it is very simple to cut the elastic band out with a pair of fingernail clippers or scissors, being careful not to cut any stitching around the dowel area. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’ve always preferred a soft wool tie down from grip holes back to the wrist strap. But elastics seem to be the most popular safety tie-ons these days.