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Documentary.

What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.

Yvette — like so many other gymnasts — injured ACL on competition Beam mats, despite not making a major error on landing.

After recovery, she later injured the other knee. On Beam dismount. 😦

Savona injured both knees similarly. And came back.

Yvette will do the same.

Can FIG competition mats be improved?

The road to success in gymnastics is brutal, very brutal. Thirty hours of training each week, not being able to go on nights out, always on a diet, and barely any holidays. All this for one goal; your own success.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (11min 30sec)

I’m proud to have been, once again, a part of Dave Adlard’s Great West Gym Fest, easily the best gymnastics competition I know.

For 2013 I was responsible for website – GreatWestGymFest.com – and social media.

Our Facebook page was very active. But our Twitter feed nearly dead. It’s not caught on yet amongst gymnasts in the Pacific N.W.

Our best photos are posted on flickr. Most were taken by Avant Coeur coach Victoria.

I posted a number of videos, the best of which is my entry into a contest new for 2013.

Theme: The Great West Gym Fest is AWESOME.

Click PLAY or watch my promo video on YouTube.

If that video on Facebook gets the most LIKES by midnight March 24th, 2013, I’ll win $500. … And if yours is the deciding LIKE, I’ll split half with YOU.

Promise. 🙂

Beautiful Gymnastics American Cup Highlights:

… WOW! I knew she was going to be a treat on beam and floor as I’ve had my eye on her for quite a while now, but her bars and her confidence were unexpected. You would think she was the seasoned Vanessa Ferrari and not a brand new unknown senior at her first big assignment.

She absolutely attacked her beam and bars though never sacrificing finesse or polish. Beautiful lines, fabulous toepoint, astonishing elegance. And SO underscored. …

Score: 14.433 (6.3, 8.133)

Click PLAY or watch Gabby on YouTube. GBR

That blogger feels American Cup is still ‘scammy‘.

Tim Daggett commented that she might be the most powerful female tumbler all time.

Click PLAY or watch her competition routine on YouTube.

Yep.

Rumour is that Nastia will be replacing Elfi for NBC.

One of the best sources of information on Romanian gymnastics is now available in English.

Check it out.

puzzlegym.ro/en/

Such a stud. 4 double somersaults.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

2nd behind Moors.

Not much Ring in that twisting Ring leap, though.

Wow. …

Click PLAY or watch her Amanar on YouTube.

Gymnix

Florida, Oklahoma, Michigan, L.S.U. | top 25 | BBS commentary
Zamarripa, Sampson, Spears | top 25

MAG NCAA update – 5-Up/5-count begins

American Cup – full VIDEO
Nastia Liukin Cup – full VIDEO

So much fire power.

Florida’s total of 198.425 set the school record and tops the nation’s previous 2013 high of 198.375 set by No. 1 Oklahoma last Friday. The Golden Gophers posted a season-best 197.175.

Nationally all-time, Florida’s score equals the eighth-highest posted and is the highest team score which doesn’t include a 10.0. The Gators are the only team to break the 198 barrier twice in 2013, as they turned in a 198.10 versus Alabama on Feb. 8. …

No. 2 Florida Gymnastics Use Nation’s Top Total to Take Senior Night Win over No. 14 Minnesota

Ronald Dupont Jr. linked to these 9.975 routines.

Click PLAY or watch Kytra Hunter’s Vault.

Click PLAY or watch Macko’s Bars.

Click PLAY or watch Brigid’s Beam.

Click PLAY or watch Marissa King’s Floor.

Russian Championships AA

1. Aliya Mustafina
2. Anastasiya Grishina
3. Evgenya Shelgunova.

1. David Belyavskiy
2. Nikita Ignyatev
3. Dimitry Stolyarov

via @theallaround

Update – Watch 3 of Aliya’s routines linked by WOGymnastike.