FIG linked to this .gif posted by wang wei. 🙂
Laura Marcella likes South Korean rhythmic gymnast Shin Soo-ji’s first pitch. (VIDEO)
Dan Keatings – Hard Way To Success
when Beam was beautiful
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.
Madison Kocian tribute
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. …
That Beam double tuck with hands on shins, the best technique.
Artistic Men’s artistic FX
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.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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.
USA Gymnastics stats
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
USA 50th Anniversary Museum
Very cool.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Some of the best items were loaned by International Gymnastics Camp. Even more were brought in by Rome Milan from Texas.
news to yous …
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Chellsie on Tumbl Trak
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.
Hernandez, Key to Japan Jr
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.:-(
