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 …
Peyton had the highest score on Beam.
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McKayla Maroney can still Vault
2013 Secret U.S. Classic
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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. …
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
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Biles – double layout 1/2
Sweeeeet. 🙂
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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTIyNzE4MzY5?related=1&autoplay=false
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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.
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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
EYOF Finals montage
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Gymnastics YU-GI-OH Cards
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:
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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.
via GymFever
Retrosi – words of wisdom
… 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. …
Gymnastics Coaching.com 