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First-ever male gymnast to get the cover of Inside Gymnastic’s annual 50 Most Photogenic issue.

IG2 interview – Jake’s Take: Pro Gymnastics Challenge

Examiner interview – Catching up with 2013 American Cup Champion Jake Dalton

How does Gabby get in the house when she can’t find the keys?

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🙂

(via Sports Girls Play)

Canadian Championships 2013

Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario

… Over 1000 gymnasts, coaches and officials will come together in unison and compete for National titles. All four disciplines will hold their championships together under one roof. …

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I’ll be there, a Team Saskatchewan coach, assisting the Men’s team, mostly in the training gym.

Though it was probably staged, this is still one gutsy gal.

Gladys Roy, a wing walker changes planes, and changes a tire. Mid flight.

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Thanks Peter.

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics summarizes interviews with Valentina Rodionenko:

… emphasises the need to retain and develop gymnasts on the WAG team and says there is a new, smiling, face of the team management, with greater collaboration between personal and lead coaches. …

read more – ‘We cannot afford to prepare gymnasts for one competition‘

It’s quite possible that Evgenia Shelgunova might replace Grishina at Europeans.

Love this video. Especially the bit on Michael Jordan, one of my favourite athletes all-time.

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Lisa Adlard at IEGA had trouble scheduling coaching meetings. As do we all. 😦

It’s difficult to get your staff together and free at the same time ANYTIME during the week.

Instead, Lisa schedules coaching “huddles”. These are very brief get-togethers (15min or so) inside the gym. With very few talking points.

The week I was there:

• Weekly Focus …
• Certificates …
• Thanking volunteers …
• Customer service … smile, greet parents and inform them of something their child did well that day
• Keep the Front Office clear

Lisa schedules 2 each week. Every coach must attend one or the other.

In the U.K.

Bob Bellew, 66, has published books on gymnastics, taught at schools across the UK and was a former Community Coach of the Year. …

… he admitted a string of sexual abuse charges, spanning 40 years, against girls he was tutoring.

He was today spared jail at Snaresbrook Crown Court by a judge who said he had demonstrated ‘genuine remorse’.

His outraged victims slammed the justice system in a statement after the pervert was handed a suspended sentence.

They said: ‘This sentence says you are allowed to go into a primary school and touch young girls and you will not be punished for it. …

read more in the Daily Mail

Cirque Du Soleil La Nouba Harlem Shake TRAPEZE STYLE

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Thanks Matt.

(via Jürgen Haßdenteufel on Facebook)