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I’m really looking forward to this documentary. 🙂

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Tatiana Frolova and Olga Mostepanova compete on beam during the 1983 World Championships.

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Tatiana Frolova finished 5th AA. Mostepanova was 2nd AA and won Beam.

Here’s Tatiana guest coaching at Manjak’s this week. She has her own children in the club.

A pretty montage dedicated to Madison Kocian who withdrew from day 2 USA Championships after spraining her ankle. (Stepping back out of triple twist. A fluke.)

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Madison Kocian opened her meet with a hit bar routine earning an impressive 15.0. On beam, Kocian hit her routine beautifully, performing elements including a standing Arabian, switch ring, handspring layout stepout, switch side leap, and a stuck double back tuck dismount. She earned 14.8, with a 9.0 execution score. …

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That Beam double tuck with hands on shins, the best technique.

GymCastic linked to a YouTube playlist of Men’s Floor routines that actually wouldn’t make a dancer cringe to watch.

For example, Scherbo – Olympics 92 compulsory.

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Compulsories were beautiful. To win you needed to do simple elements better than anyone else.

See more optional Artistic FX routines. (Shewfelt, Thomas, Rivera, etc.)

If you only want to watch tumbling, follow Power Tumbling and TeamGym.

Uncle Tim‘s the new Nate Silver of the Gymternet.

He crunches numbers. And makes predictions.

From a recent post he calculates:

• MyKayla Skinner, Most Improved Senior

• Laurie Hernandez, Most Improved Junior

• Simone Biles often scores higher on Execution than Kyla Ross

details – P&G Championships Number Love: The Ladies

Very cool.

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Some of the best items were loaned by International Gymnastics Camp. Even more were brought in by Rome Milan from Texas.

🙂

Elite female gymnasts age-25 are mostly retired. A relatively high percentage have had Achilles problems.

Yet Chellsie Memmel decided to move on to Power Tumbling.

Respect.

She partly attributes her long career to training on a tumbling trampoline. For the past 20 years.

And later on Air Floors.

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Chellsie signed autographs at the Congress Tumbl Trak booth. (VIDEO)

Kids at Flip Fest Gym Camp post on the “Goal Wall“. Kids like Chellsie Memmel.

USAG:

Laurie Hernandez and Bailie Key have been selected to compete at the at the Junior Japan competition, Sept. 22-25 …

related – USA Worlds Selection camp September 9-18 at the Ranch

Click over to Gymnastike to see why Lexie Priessman and Madison Kocian are not attending.:-(

Many have been linking to an excellent Balance Beam Situation commentary:

Over the years, we’ve all seen any number of hilarious scores showered upon US gymnasts at domestic competitions, and this storied history of ridiculing hyper-American judging has cultivated the widespread assumption that less biased international judges would never succumb to such silliness.

At times in the past, this has been the case, but in the last few years, the international judges have seemed willing to evaluate the execution of routines with that we would normally consider an American lens. …

… “she’ll never receive those scores internationally” needs to be tempered as a credo because it lately amounts to only a tenth or two of difference for most gymnasts rather than a dramatic break that blows up potential scoring and because it is far from consistent, even among the various chosen ones. It has been quite person-specific. …

read more on BBS – On Home Scoring, the Elite Kind

If you click through you’ll see the statistics are not at all rock solid.

Yet I feel the same way. The best American gymnasts in the past looked GREAT at home, … but not nearly so good once compared directly with the top Chinese, Romanians and Russians. Scores tended to drop.

(It’s still that way with the American men. Uncle Tim, please compare ACTUAL scores on Rings and Pommels for team USA at Worlds 2013 with the scores they got at U.S. Championships 2013.)

Now that the American women are in reality the #1 team, that’s no longer the case.

YES … there are many, many other variables. 🙂