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Locked and loaded. 🙂

Once again I’ll be blogging the Women’s Collegiate Championships, this year from the new Pauley Pavilion at UCLA.

It’s going to be thrilling watching Zamarippa at home.

Watch a promo video.

Regionals and Championships ticket information.

Tuscaloosa Regional April 6 Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Norman Regional April 6 Norman, Okla.
Corvallis Regional April 6 Corvallis, Ore.
Columbus Regional April 6 Columbus, Ohio
Gainesville Regional April 6 Gainesville, Fla.
Morgantown Regional April 6 Morgantown, W.Va.

Championship April 19-21 Los Angeles, Calif.

Marceline Goldstein will be representing Cirque du Soleil. Leave me a message if you’d like a personal introduction in L.A.

The Men’s Championships are same weekend, Penn State. That could be even more thrilling that the women.

Vera Marinova-Atkinson:

… on 23 February 2013, the Bulgarian six-time Olympian, four time Olympic medalist and former double World Champion on Floor and Rings, Iordan Iovtchev celebrated the end of the his competitive career in a remarkable show in the country’s capital Sofia. …

On the eve of the Gala, 22 February 2013, Iordan Iovtchev was awarded with the highest state honour, the Order “Stara Planina”, by the President of Republic …

read more on FIG

Friends Yuri Chechi, Igor Cassina and Alexei Nemov were there.

Vera Marinova-Atkinson wrote a book on his life titled “Meeting a Dinosaur”. It was published the same week.

Meanwhile, 37yr-old Oksana Chusovitina is still rocking Vault. VIDEO from Houston National Invitational 2013.

This week we chat with one of our favorite gymnasts, Sho Nakamori. He made the national team at 12 and lived through both personal tragedies and injuries more common in car accidents than gymnastics, before reaching his peak.

His experiences as a gymnast, the son of Japanese gymnasts and a grassroots contributor to the community have always fascinated us. He proved to be as much of a renaissance man as we had imagined!

He’s traveling through Japan right now, follow his adventures on Twitter.

GymCastic

Sho’s working for Google. On the Google Glass project, I believe.

No doubt he’s already tested prototypes on the Gymnastics apparatus. 🙂

And Sho’s a judge. Look for him on Pommels at J.O. Nationals. … He’ll be the one wearing the odd looking glasses. 🙂

NCAA GymRankings.com

NCAA preview Mar 15-17 Couch Gymnast | BBS

COMING SOON! Web and iOS Athlete Management Application for Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. Communicate, Collaborate and Motivate your athletes.

The first promo video is interesting, but doesn’t reveal anything about the app.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

If interested, click over to ManageMeSport.com to get on the launch email list.

ManageMe Sport on Facebook.

From a TV show in Norway.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The young gymnast from GBR has plenty of fans worldwide.

Click PLAY or watch a montage on YouTube.

Here’s another Catherine Lyons montage.

(via irving nochez on YouTube)

Good edit. Proud and loud background music by former Sooner Jake Messina.

This week’s gymnastics workout video takes you inside an early morning training session with the University of Oklahoma men’s gymnastics team. This past weekend, the Sooners upset #2 ranked Michigan on the road. They will once again be in the hunt for the NCAA National title come April.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzYxNzAwMTEy?related=1

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

Note that Gymnastike has cool pre-roll video from International Gymnastics Camp.

Tim‘s yet another of the former Nebraska assistant‘s who’s gone on to be one of the best Head Coaches in the NCAA.

… And he was gutsy enough to put on a wire for a competition. 🙂

The Kentucky gymnastics team is having one of the best seasons in school history. Heading into a Senior Night meet against Bowling Green on Friday at 7 p.m. ET, the Wildcats are looking to build off of a 196.5 team score – the highest ever for the program. The video below gives you an idea of the kind of leadership Tim Garrison has brought to UK.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Allowed J.O. USA.

Shannon Hortman class of 2016.

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Not sure why they don’t pad the Bar for that Jaeger.