No Limits Gymnastics, Panama

I visited the excellent new club in Panama City yesterday.

No Limits

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This is the home gym of Colombian 2008 Olympian Nathalia Sánchez, though she wasn’t training the morning I was there.

Head Coach Andres Llanos Gerardino and I are leading a 5-day FIG Age Group Camp starting today at the National Training Center.

The club hosted the Region 5 WAG all-star team last October, recall.

Woodward Des Moines?

Shawn Johnson announced some big and surprising news.

Lunchables and Shawn Johnson inspire kids to lunch their tummies right.

Since her retirement in June, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist has appeared on a second season of Dancing With the Stars and been working on a variety of projects. None has her more excited than a gym that she plans to open with Woodward Camp in West Des Moines this year, the newspaper reports.

Johnson said the facility will be a place for children to try a variety of sports from BMX to gymnastics. She said she’ll be helping to design the curriculum.

“I’ve never been this excited about a project,” Johnson told USA Today. “Kids and fitness and exercise and having the freedom to learn what you want to do is kind of my passion. I feel like gymnastics was a little restrictive in not allowing me to have freedom and to be able to give that option is our main focus.” …

Shawn Johnson Hits Ski Slopes, Talks About Opening West Des Moines Gym

via @gymnewstics

Flippin’ Awesome with Aly

Aly Raisman is hosting some sort of kid’s weekly YouTube TV show featuring random sports clips submitted by users.

She looks comfortable on screen. But the choice of clips in the first episode are questionable at best. Wipe outs are included so I’ll not embed.

Click through at your own risk.

Flippin’ Awesome with Aly Raisman Ep. 1: “Stick It”

(via Sports Girls Play)

new NYC parkour gym

BKLYN BEAST is New York City’s first training facility where Parkour, Capoeira, Breaking and other movement oriented art forms can be trained …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Check the tramp wall.

And the New Year’s Eve Gala launch (VIDEO).

kinesthesist is training there.

Olympics: Epke v Fabian

Who has the better “form”?

Epke Zonderland and Fabian Hambüchen (Comparison) High Bar Olympic Games London 2012.

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Love the synchro dismounts.

… But it’s no contest. Our Olympic Champion is one of the biggest “hacks” of the top contenders. Fabian and Kohei, two of the cleanest.

(via The Gymnastics Examiner on Facebook)