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Here’s one way to include that release. 🙂

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… Now 17, he’s the best young male gymnast in the United States, an athlete whose ability invites comparisons to 2004 Olympic all-around gold medalist Paul Hamm.

Kimble lives in Milwaukee and trains at Swiss Turners in West Allis, where Hamm and his twin brother, Morgan, trained.

… Kimble will try to make his first senior national team this week at the 2013 U.S. Gymnastics Championships at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn.

He will compete in the junior men’s session Thursday and if he finishes in the top six he will be eligible to compete in the senior session Saturday. The 15-man senior national team will be chosen at the end of the competition. …

“That is the goal for this year,” said Andrei Kan, one of Kimble’s coaches at Swiss Turners and a 1996 Olympian for Belarus. “I see great potential for him to make the world championship team (in 2014) so it’s important for him to make the senior national team this year.

“We are trying to get prepared for the 2016 Olympics. I believe he has a good chance.” …

read more – Milwaukee gymnast chases Olympic dream

Thank Ron Noe for the link.

Beth tells how Beijing was the greatest disappointment in her career.

BGtv British Gymnastics:

Celebrate the career of this gymnastics legend with the people who crafted a champion. Warning: contains scenes of an emotional nature!

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Beth Tweddle and Amanda Reddin are one of the great duos in gymnastics history. 🙂

Andrew Revesz:

… Kaleigh is a nine-year-old kid who’s already living the dream!

She’s part of a new breed of young skydivers who kick ass in the tunnel, and I can’t wait to see how these kids progress our sport once they get into the sky.

The present is here, it’s now. Go live it.

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Podium training.

Double double layout mount.

Double double tucked, 3rd pass.

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MjM5NzE5Mzk3?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 P&G Championships on gymnastike.org

Mykayla Skinner of Desert Lights trains her Cheng at the 2013 P&G Championships

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MTc1NzE5NDE1?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 P&G Championships on gymnastike.org

Most of the power comes off the board, in any case. 1-arm vaults are illegal, however. She’ll have to be careful in the meet.

For Jr and Sr training today, Lauren Hopkins posted a chronological twitter feed on Couch Gymnast.

Compare that with Anne’s LIVE coverage on Gymnastike, with photos.

Things look good. I can’t recall the USA having this much depth in any other post Olympic year.

Lexie Priessman, unfortunately, had to withdraw due to Achilles tendon pain.

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Landed clean. But both feet out of bounds.

Victoria Moors – Floor – 2013 Pan Am Championships Event Finals

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13.4 (5.7, 8.1, -0.4)

She landed short in prelims. (VIDEO)

I believe that routine will be ready for Worlds. 🙂

related – Couch Gymnast – 2013 PanAm Championships: 10 Routines to Watch

Ma JIuH YsM-sKT has been the hottest YouTube channel of late for those tracking BIG tricks and combinations in Men’s Gymnastics.

He’s put many of those into a compilation.

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Published on Aug 10, 2013

1. Tomomasa Hasegawa – Busnari 1 , Busnari 2
2. Kohei Uchimura – Quadruple twisting double layout back
3. Mathias Fahrig – Double Arabian piked with 540
4. Kenzo Shirai – Quadruple twist
5. Prashanth Sellathurai – Magyar Spindle between pommel’s
6. John Orozco or Marvin Kimble – Kip with 180 + Stretched tkachev with 540
7. Bart Deurloo – Kip with 180 + Kollman + Kovacs + Cassina + Gienger over the bar
8. Jake Dalton – double back with 2,5 twist’s
9. Makoto Okiguchi – salto back with 2,5 + front with 180 + salto back with 720
10. Kenzo Shirai – salto front with 360 + salto front with 1080
11. Hak Seon Yang – Tsukahara stretched with 1260
12. Steven Legendre – quadruple twisting double layout
13. Aleksandr Balandin – Balandin to support planche
14. Hiroshi – Kip with 180 + Suarez
15. Claudio Capelli – Bilozerchev + Heally from 1 bar
16. Andreas? Bretschneider – Kovacs with 720
17. Bobby Baker – Full twisting double front
18. Epke Zonderland – Zonderland + Heally + Shimitsu to front
19. Max Whitlock – 2 loops 3 russians – G ; Busnari – G
20. Kenzo Shirai – Yurchenko with 1080
21. Michael Newburger – Driggs with 180
22. Ramadan Zahran – Pineda to inverted swallow
23. Petrix Barbosa – Basket with salto – Tejada
24. Jossimir Calvo Moreno – Tsukahara dismount from end of the parallel bars
25. Yusuke Tanaka – Kollman + Rybalko
26. Kazuhito Tanaka – Triple back dismount

… head coach John Spini announced the addition of two-time World Champion and former Oklahoma gymnast Hollie Vise to the Gym Devil coaching staff. Vise will be filling the role of assistant coach for Kari Ward, as she takes a yearlong maternity break for her third child. …

Vise is also known for her passion for choreography and will oversee the events of beam and floor. Prior to coaching at ASU, Vise was a traveling coach and called around the country to choreograph routines. …

Gym Devils Add Vise to Coaching Staff