introducing KIP

Alternate to the 2012 Canadian Olympic team, Jessica Savona, shows one of my favourite KIP drills at Manjak’s.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Jess is available to coach Summer Camps 2013.

Leave a comment if you are looking for a guest Olympian. She’s an energetic and inspiring athlete.

Cheng Fei goes home

Blossom:

Former Olympic Champion Cheng Fei has left the National Team and returned to her home province of Hubei. She is currently coaching at Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, the place where she used to train. …

Cheng Fei’s transfer come as no surprise to most of her fans. She has expressed how she doesn’t feel at home living the Beijing metropolitan life

Before Cheng Fei, many coaches felt we might never have a Chinese Floor of Vaulting World champion.

She changed ALL that. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch her 2004 Floor on YouTube.

That was linked from a Happy Birthday career retrospective posted by Couch Gymnast.

Subway ballet

… W.A.F.F.L.E. (We Are Family for Life Entertainment) crew: J-Black, Goofy, Boy Aero, Lex Aero, John-O and Sonic. …

NY Times – ‘Subway Ballet’

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Young men perform daring aerial dances in a crowded New York City subway car.

Military Dad Surprises Daughter At Gymnastics Competition

Sorry to be slow linking to this one.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

via @GymCastic

coach at North Stars

North Stars Gymnastics Academy located in Boonton N.J. (45min out of Manhattan) has two optional and 1 compulsory full time coaching position available.

North Stars has placed numerous kids on the U.S. National team plus has been over 60 collegiate scholarships.

Contact Tony Gehman at 973 316-2507 or email northstarsnj (a) optimum.net

IOC likes baseball, squash, wrestling

The International Federations for karate, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu, baseball/softball, squash and wrestling all made 30-minute presentations prior to voting in Saint Petersburg.

The IOC Executive Board then selected three sports by secret ballot with baseball/softball, squash and wrestling all being proposed for possible inclusion on the Olympic programme for the 2020 Games. …

Team GB – IOC PRESIDENT ROGGE BELIEVES RIGHT THREE SPORTS CHOSEN

It sounds like only one Sport will be added.

To me Wrestling is a no-brainer. It obviously should be in the Olympics.

IOC boosts Gymnastics, Swimming

Swimming and gymnastics were the big winners Wednesday in a new revenue-sharing ranking of Olympic sports, signaling the start of the debate over how to split the money from the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The IOC executive board promoted the international swimming and gymnastics federations into the top tier along with track and field in a list of five groups comprising the 28 summer Olympic sports.

Previously, the International Association of Athletics Federations was ranked alone in the highest of four groups and received the biggest share of the hundreds of millions of dollars generated from television rights and other deals from each Summer Games. …

Swimming, gymnastics get Olympic revenue boost

The obvious question — Why can’t our National Governing Bodies better market one of the top 3 Olympic sports?

Beth
(via FIG)

next great Gymnastics movie

A kickstarter proposal:

Join Maddy Curley in making the next great Gymnastics Movie: CHALK IT UP!

CHALK IT UP is a family friendly gymnastics film about a girl named Hannah, who overcomes her past to build a very unlikely team of misfit gymnasts at Harvard University. …

Click PLAY or watch it on kickstarter.

details

The goal is donations totalling $110,000.

Madelyn “Maddy” Jane Curley is an American actress and former gymnast. She competed for North Carolina Tar Heels. …

Curley played gymnast Mina Hoyt in the 2006 film Stick It

(via Dominique Moceanu on Facebook)