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Yu-Gi-Oh! … is a Japanese collectible card game …

It was named the top selling trading card game in the world by Guinness World Records on July 7, 2009, having sold over 22 billion cards worldwide …

Some samples of a Gymnastics parody version:

See more on Facebook.

Update: W G says that the “original source of the cards is wats-good-gabby.tumblr.com and were taken from that blog and put onto the facebook page without permission“.

I’d link to the originals if I could find them. But Tumblr SUCKS at SEARCH.

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… Rome was not built in a day; training accumulates day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month and year-to-year. Take time and do it and teach it right the first time. It is a given that to achieve any level of success in gymnastics demands hard work. That being said ANYONE can work hard. Champions are the ones who work smart. …

Thoughts from Gym Momentum Camp 2013

Cool.

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NDY5NzE4MTU3?related=1&autoplay=false

She’s competing Secret this weekend.

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USA will almost certainly send two of four gymnasts to Worlds 2013 to collect Vault medals.

But which two?

From Podium training …

Click PLAY or watch Simone Biles’ Amanar on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch McKayla Maroney’s first Vault on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch McKayla Maroney’s second Vault on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Brenna Dowell’s Amanar on YouTube.

She’s been training that for years. Nice to see it in competition. 🙂

Watch more podium training on the USA Gymnastics YouTube channel.

I popped in for the first day of the annual Washington State Gymnastics Clinic to show the new Tumbl Trak Laser Beam.

Emerald City Gymnastics is a terrific host. Two large gymnasiums. Plenty of classroom space.

learning the new Compulsories

On Friday, All Around State champions from level 7,8,9,10, about 40 girls, worked with 5 coaches: John Carney from Missouri, Justin Howell from Cal Berkley, Ivan Alexov from the Mac Club in Portland and the Head Women’s Team Coach from Bulgaria, Connie Maloney from USAG and Nola Ayers a Judge and famous High School Gymnastics Coach in Washington State.

John Carney

more Emerald City photos

Full Twist is at Renmore Gymnastics:

This weekend, Thursday 25th – Sunday 28th July, Ireland will welcome two time Olympian Hannah Whelan and London 2012 Olympian Rebecca Tunney to a WAG Summer Camp in Galway.

Joining the Olympians will be their City of Liverpool coach Claire Louise Duffy, Senior team mate and British Silver All Around Champion Charlie Fellows and junior, Olivia Williams. Also attending will be esteemed choreographer Daniela Nanova, a former Bulgarian Artistic and Rhythmic gymnast. …

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I really enjoyed episode 41 of the GymCastic audiocast.

Especially the wide ranging interview with one of the highest potential Juniors in the world, Laurie Hernandez, and her straight talking coach Maggie Haney.

Lauren “Laurie”/ “Baby Shakira” Hernandez turns 16 right before the 2016 Olympic Games. She completely stole the show at the 2012 Secret Classic in Chicago and she’ll be back this weekend.

In our interview she told us her epic wipeout stories, opinion of cutsie routines, which area of The Ranch should be filmed for a TV show [Gymnastike! That question was for you!] and cultivating her signature style.

Her coach, Maggie Haney talks about the pressure of coaching a gymnast who’s routines stop traffic, her difficulty vs execution strategy, the advice Marta Karolyi gave her, teaching her athletes how to lose as well as win, dealing with burnout when she was done racking up perfect 10s at North Carolina State University, giving birth just days before returning to the gym to coach and the appropriate amount of time to keep a floor routine.

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.

More than any other American, she reminds me of Courtney McCool. Yet has never trained ballet.

Laurie’s one of the few junior gymnasts that have been named to the U.S. National Team.

Episode 41: Laurie Hernandez & Coach Maggie Haney

You can listen to the interview from that link. And watch recent highlight routines from Brinn Bevan, Maria Kharenkova, Kim Janas and more.

At our annual summer Gymnastics Camp we’ve added a mixed Gymnastics / Parkour set-up outdoors.

Many of the girls did not know what the word Parkour meant.

It’s getting increasingly popular with girls. And it’s good psychological cross training for WAG.

Lynn Jung … with her sisters Daniell and Tamara.

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Trampoline goes July 29-31, 2013.

USA sent 13 gymnasts to compete in synchronized trampoline, tumbling, double mini-trampoline and acrobatic gymnastics.

Sounds like there’s some problems with the T & T venue. 😦