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Magee, a former University of Arkansas All-American gymnast, will return to her SEC roots with the Tigers for the 2013-14 season as she will serve as Mizzou’s beam coach while assisting on floor exercise. She comes to Mizzou after spending two years as the assistant coach at Western Michigan University.
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As of Sept 1, 2013 Gymnastics Ontario will be begin the new Women’s Artistic Competitive Program by offering new levels 1 – 9 program with skills, concepts and code of points (compulsory and optional) modeled after the USA Junior Olympic program. …
Excellent. The American J.O. / NCAA competitive structure is the most successful in the world in my opinion.
USAG is rolling out the changes for the next quadrennial right now.
The best thing that could happen to Canada would be to fall in line with the American Junior Olympic program. If this works for our largest Province, other Canadian Provinces might adopt it too.
It would be far easier to cross borders for competition.
The new Ontario rules are not exactly J.O. — but they are close. (PDF)
JO level 10 is equivalent to the Canadian National Open category.
TIMELINE (PDF):
April 15 – Release of the level 1 – 4 compulsory element charts & level 5 proposed optional routine requirements
May 30 – Release of the level 5 – 9 optional routine summary charts
June 30 – Release of the level 1 – 4 routine requirement manual complete with pictures, deductions,technique requirements and
competition expectations.June 30 – Release of the level 5 – 9 routine requirement manual complete with pictures, deductions and competition
requirementsAug 23 / 24 –GO Coaching Congress –GO JO technical event specific workshops and judging perspective information sessions.
Sept/Oct – Final GO JO technical event specific workshop
TBC – Level 1 – 4 GO JO Compulsory skill videos available – for a head start please refer to the USA JO videos as they become
available.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
She’s not a butterfly. Rather the whole package. Very few technical weaknesses. She even grasps her shins on double tuck, superior to most of the top girls in the world who are grasping thighs.
Consistency is the main goal for Grishina.
(via one of the Anastasia Grishina fan pages on Facebook)
sporteverywhere:
Published Jun 4, 2013
I’m back! I’ve been out for a little while, because I had other priorities, but I’m doing D-Score videos again 🙂
So, I’ll start by correcting all the videos using the February Version of the Code and maybe doing some new videos in the middle.
Click PLAY or watch Mustafina’s 2012 Bars on YouTube.
2009-2012 CoP – 7.0
2013-2016 CoP – 6.7
Tracy B on Couch Gymnast:
As an Australian gymnastics fan, opportunities to experience live gymnastics at the highest level can be few and far between, with the national championships usually the solitary annual event. So you can imagine my excitement when my holiday to the USA happened to cross paths with the 2013 NCAA National Championships at UCLA. Having only really being introduced to the college gymnastics format in past couple of years, I was still unaware of the grand scale of college gymnastics events.
… I discovered almost a whole new world of gymnastics. The differences between the elite and college world were obvious and plentiful, but more importantly, enjoyable. I saw gymnasts laughing, cheering and dancing with their teammates, bursting to the rim of school pride. But most enjoyable for me, was the focus on team spirit and camaraderie, which with so few team competitions in the elite world, is not often appreciated.
… right from the start, the favourites faltered on beam, you could feel the disbelief in the stadium as everyone tried to calculate if it was even mathematically possible for them to recover from counting a fall. …
And just as Hollywood would have written it, it came down to not only the last rotation, but also the last couple of routines. One stuck landing, one wobble, one fall. As everyone’s eyes darted around the electronic scoreboards which framed the arena, desperately calculating who had done enough. And who had just fallen short. …
2000 Olympic Balance Beam Champion Liu Xuan shows off her gymnastics skill in her latest wedding photo shoot for Modern Bride magazine.
Liu Xuan and her husband were actually secretly married a year ago in Las Vegas after being together for 11 years. She is now an actress/singer signed with Hong Kong’s TVB; and he is a music professor at Central Conservatory of Music.
More photos linked from Blossom.
Good news.
Earlier today, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) Board of Directors voted 13-0, with one abstention, to reinstate boys high school gymnastics …
USA Gymnastics worked closely with the National Federation of State High School Associations to provide boys’ gymnastics rules to run the state’s competitive high school program, which addressed one of the concerns noted when the Board originally decided to drop the sport last January.
via USAG email
… Denise and Richard Ellis, coach of the Braintree High School boys gymnastics team, had been among those working with the MIAA and national groups to craft updated rules.
“It was a long journey but it was a good journey,” Denise said. “There was a sense of relief that we’re going to be able to remain the way we have since the early sixties.”
This will be entertaining. 🙂
https://twitter.com/louissmith1989/status/342681698422640640/
Omelianchik was a member of the first place Soviet team at the 1985 World Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, but struggled in the team competition and did not qualify for the all-around final.
However, Soviet team officials (Rodionenko) decided to pull Olga Mostepanova and Irina Baraksanova, who had both qualified for the finals, and substitute Omelianchik and her teammate Shushunova. The decision proved to be sound; the two Soviet gymnasts tied for the all-around gold and became Worlds Co-Champions. …
Click PLAY or watch her 1985 Europeans Finals routine on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch the Omelianchik Vault on YouTube.
She was traveling alternate to the 1988 Olympics. Retired 1989.
Omelianchik remains heavily involved in gymnastics as a choreographer, coach and judge. She heads the women’s technical committee for the Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation and choreographs routines for many of Ukraine’s top gymnasts …
Is that still the case after Ukraine’s last round of budget cuts?
Both are commonly used. Back in 2011 I decided to use flare.
Balance Beam Situation likes Flare, as well, though the women’s Code of Points is using Flair.
Click PLAY or watch some Flares on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=1257385068871
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