YouTube shutting down at midnight

… “We are so close to the end,” Tom Liston, communications director at YouTube, said in the video. “Tonight at midnight, YouTube.com will no longer be accepting entries. After eight amazing years, it’s finally time to review everything that has been uploaded to our site and begin the process of selecting a winner.” …

It’s all been a contest to decide on the BEST home video ever.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

🙂

(via Mashable)

Aliya – Stella Zakharova Beam

I love watching Moustafina on this apparatus.

But count how many seconds she’s nearly immobile before the double tuck dismount.

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

Do we need a 2 second rule on Beam? 🙂

Bars VIDEO.

That was linked by The All Around.

new blog – Swing Big

WAG coaches should support this new site. It’s dedicated to technique.

For example this post recommending beginners not go to handstand when learning backward giants.

Click PLAY or watch a linked video on YouTube.

TWISTER Kenzo Shirai – Floor

Wow.

Three tumbling lines never before competed, so far as I know. Including quad twist as a dismount.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That said. To me this is overuse of one kind of skill.

(via Nashwan on Facebook)

Doha Finals – day 2

BEAM
1. Larisa Iordache 15.500
2. Zeng Siqi 15.150
3. Gabrielle Jupp 14.450

FLOOR
1. Diana Bulimar 14.625
2. Larisa Iordache 14.425
3. Zeng Siqi 14.050

VAULT
1. Ri Se Gwang 15.137
2. Le Thanh Phuong 15.062
3. Artur Davtyan 14.937

PARALLEL BARS
1. Andrei V. Muntean 15.325
2. Kim Jin Hyok 15.225
3. Liao Qiuhua 15.000

H BAR
1. Marijo Moznik 14.925
2. Jeffrey Wammes 14.875
3. Oliver Hegi 14.825

Great competition. But they’ve done a lousy job of getting results out correctly and quickly.

I had to wait for Amanda Turner to finally post a friendly format version on IG.

Couch Gymnast – WAG – Doha Day Two Finals Report

FIG competition continues April 6-7 in Tokyo with the final all-around World Cup of the 2012-2013 season.