Mykayla Skinner – Floor

WOW.

She rocks the double double layout. (O.B.)

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Despite weaknesses and errors, I definitely want to see Mykayla compete Floor and Vault internationally.

She competed DTY and an awesome Cheng (6.4 difficulty score)

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Ender’s Game film recruitment video

Have you read Ender’s Game?

At long last, the film version is coming Nov 1, 2013.

This PROMO video is looking for very young child recruits for Battle School.

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Gymnasts would be ideal candidates.

the most powerful tumbler

WOW WOW

Simone Biles is out of this world.

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To me both those last two tumbling lines are weak for a gymnast this powerful.

Simone can do anything. Why lines as traditional as those?

Ross, Ernst, Dowell

U.S. Secret Classic 2013

Kyla Ross (Gym-Max) 58.650
Peyton Ernst (Texas Dreams) 58.250
Brenna Dowell (GAGE) 57.200

Blythe:

Between Youtube, Twitter, internet streaming, blogs, speciality sites like Gymnastike and USA Gymnastics’s own realization that it needed to up its coverage to compete with all of the above, the presence of a major TV network is no longer necessary for hard-core fans (and even fair weather ones), to follow the competition. …

The energetic Simone Biles, who had a starmarking debut at the American Cup in Massachusetts in March, had an off day …

read more on Examiner …

Peyton had the highest score on Beam.

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Bailie Key wins Secret

Bailie Key of Montgomery, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics, won the junior all-around title at the 2013 Secret U.S. Classic …

Amelia Hundley of Hamilton, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics, and Key’s teammate Veronica Hults of Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics, were second and third, respectively. The one-day event is the final women’s qualifier for the 2013 P&G Gymnastics Championships, and the gymnasts are either looking to secure a spot at the national championships or using it as a tune-up.

… Based on their scores today, four gymnasts who had not previously qualified were added to the roster for the P&G Championships, where they will compete for berths onto the U.S. National Team. They are Vanasia Bradley of Lincoln Park, Mich./Splitz Gymnastics; Nadia Cho of Plano, Texas/WOGA; Christina Desiderio of Hackettstown, N.J./Parkettes Gymnastics; and Sydney Johnson-Scharpf of Groveland, Fla./Brandy Johnson’s Global Gymnastics. …

read more on USAG

Bailie Key 58.250
Amelia Hundley 57.950
Veronica Hults 56.800
Norah Flatley 56.500
Nia Dennis 56.250
Lauren Hernandez 55.950

full results (PDF)

Click PLAY or watch Veronica Hults on Bars (1st at 14.550) on YouTube

Bars is the weakest apparatus for Team USA, so far this quadrennial.

Julie Croket profile

Another trailer for The Hard Way To Success. Full episode will be online on the 5th of August.

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Recall that Julie was on a roll prior to the Olympics. Then tore her ACL. 😦

Secret Podium highlights

HIGHLIGHTS from the 2013 Secret US Classic podium training, including McKayla Maroney’s return to the competition floor.

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NzIzNzE4NDcz?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 Secret US Classic on gymnastike.org

Biles – double layout 1/2

Sweeeeet. 🙂

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTIyNzE4MzY5?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 Secret US Classic on gymnastike.org

That’s what Jake Dalton mounts with on Floor. (VIDEO)

Andy Thornton remembers London Phillips:

… Some have already been naming Biles as the first gymnast to perform this skill (assuming she competes it in tonight’s competition). However, there was a relatively unknown gymnast who competed this skill back in 2005 – along with another very unique pass and an overall tumbling repertoire that was way ahead of its time.

Click PLAY or watch London on YouTube.

That second pass was a 1 ½ twisting double back! And to this day I can’t think of too many gymnasts – if any – who have competed a front layout to double front as a DISMOUNT! Wow. We didn’t hear too much from London after that, but I wanted to credit her as having competed this difficult and innovative skill nearly a full decade ago. …

American Gymnast – Simone Biles’ New Skill – Check Out Who Performed This Eight Years Ago! And Some Pre-Meet Thoughts On The U.S. Classic

related – Examiner – Four big gymnastics skills to look out for at the Secret U.S. Classic