Gabby Douglas worth $3 million

But she’s back training anyway. 🙂

Gabby Douglas Net Worth Won’t Deter Gymnastics Dreams [VIDEO]: Rio 2016 Training Underway According To Twitter

Here’s what she had to say on the topic back immediately after the Olympics. Click PLAY or watch an interview on the topic on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzY4NjU1NjQ4?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2012 London Olympics on gymnastike.org

(via Couch Gymnast)

Zarkana – the Chocolate Sculpture

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Zarkana is a Cirque du Soleil stage production … It began as a touring show in 2011 and was converted to a permanent show in Las Vegas in late 2012. …

related …

… Cirque du Soleil has announced that performances of Ka in Las Vegas will resume Tuesday, July 16, at 7 p.m.

The Tuesday night show will be dedicated to the memory of Sarah Guillot-Guyard (a.k.a. Sasoun) the 31-year-old performer who fell more than 25 metres to her death during a performance of Ka on June 29.

For the time being, Ka will be presented without the Battle Scene act during which Guillot-Guyard lost her life. …

😦

GBR wins Men’s EYOF

Great Britain takes the … 2013 men’s team title with 169.55 points, followed by Russia (167.3), Italy, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary, the Netherlands and Turkey.

Britain’s Brinn Bevan maintains his first subdivision lead in all-around qualification with 84.75. Chasing him in the final will be his teammate Nile Wilson (83.75), Russians Valentin Starikov and Kirill Potapov.

Fifth in all-around qualification (not including the third Russian, who was technically fifth), is Turkey’s Ahmet Onder, a brand-new face on the international scene.

Examiner on Facebook

Click PLAY or watch Brinn Bevan’s P Bars on YouTube.

That’s the first back toss I’ve seen in quite a while.

U.S. Olympic Champions

Chris Saccullo:

Protect Your Dreams

My entry for the USA Gymnastics’ 50th anniversary ’50 Years in 50 Seconds’ video contest highlighting our 4 Olympic All Around golden girls who remind us all to protect our dreams.

details here

… three finalists will be announced Aug. 12-14 …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

audio from the motion picture “The Pursuit of Happyness”

Tumbl Trak Laser Beam

How many times have you said, “Watch the BEAM” ??

Why doesn’t someone invent a Beam training aid designed to give gymnasts more visual feedback?

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That’s the brainchild of coaching legend Leonard Isaac. He first showed it to Tammy Biggs, Kathryn Geddert, Chellsie Memmel and Tumbl Trak Staff in March.

details on Tumbl Talk

Just now made available for sale, the Laser Beam is being introduced at Tumbl Trak “Choose Your Habits” Coaches Clinics nationwide. Those are FREE.

Next HABITS clinic is this Saturday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. (Register here.)

More HABITS clinics.

Having worked with the new floor Beam for weeks now, it’s clear to me that more visual information is better than a blank Beam. But that each gymnasts uses that information in different ways.

It’s most helpful for asymmetric skills (cartwheels, aerial cartwheel, layout step out, backward handspring stepout, side somi, etc.)

related – THE WHO, WHAT, HOW AND WHAT’S NEXT OF THE LASER BEAM by Carrie Spender Lennox

EYOF podium jots & videos

Bea Gheorghisor is there:

• Romania

• Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany

Victoria Kuzmina … looks healthy and she’s a gymnast with great basics …, but compared to her team mates Kharenkova and Bondareva her difficulty will be low.

Uneven bars, however, will be her event. She did a couple of routines today and although she had breaks here and there (once not being able to come back on the high bar from the low), she looked prepared for a final and even a medal on this event. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Maccabiah Games July 17-30

competition schedule (PDF)

Click PLAY or watch a promo on YouTube.

An Israel Foreign Ministry employee strike is causing visa problems for arriving athletes.

Wikipedia claims:

United States representative Ali Raisman, the 2012 Olympic gymnastics gold winner, is said to be competing. …

UPDATE:

… Two of the biggest names attached to the Games are gymnast Aly Raisman and NY Knick Amar’e Stoudemire. Raisman will be a special guest, not a competitor, while Stoudemire will be part of Team Canada’s coaching staff. …