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Stuttgart World Cup Men’s All Around Final Results:
1. Nguyen, Marcel (GER) – 90,232
2. Purvis, Daniel (GBR) – 89,397
3. Belyavskiy, David (RUS) – 89,298
4. Tanaka, Kazuhito (JPN) – 89,097
5. Leyva, Danell (USA) – 88,364
6. Gonzalez, Fabian (ESP) – 87,498
7. Thomas, Kristian (GBR) – 87,365
Click PLAY or watch Kristian Thomas GBR | Yurchenko double pike on YouTube.
Laura Amann is a freelance writer, mother of 4 kids. She has a guest post on the Sports Girls Play blog.
My days of gymnastics are over. So are my long hours at the gym. My nervousness and anxiety. It’s all in the past. No more ponytails woven with ribbons, no more glitter spray, no more bleacher analysis. My daughter has left the sport.
For years, Caroline competed on a gymnastics team and she adored everything about it. Four days a week, we drove the ½ hour back and forth to the gym so that she could practice 15 hours a week, year-round. I volunteered, I chatted with the parents, I watched and learned and bit my nails. The parents became my friends, the meets became a social time.
Eventually after three years of this schedule, the complaints began: the coaches were too hard, she had a headache, she was tired, she had too much homework. Her message read loud and clear: she was burnt out at the age of 11. …
That’s a good read for every coach.
I’ll bet Caroline grows up to be more successful and healthy than her non-gymnast classmates. But it’s not easy for a young girl to appreciate that now.
The sport, the system and the coaches share responsibility for the very large number of girls who go through this trauma. We really do build up expectations too high for too many children.
Dar wants underprivileged kids to do Gymnastics.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
She’s the Rec guru behind GymtasticsGymTools.
(via Rec Gymnastics)
After prelims, Canadian Denis Vachon leads Senior Men’s prelims in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico. 230 Competitors are registered from U.S., Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Mexico
Click PLAY or watch his first pass on YouTube.
Trampoline sports are required to kick out at vertical before landing. (VIDEO)
Senior preliminaries are scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 1, with the finals on Dec. 2. …
related – Canadians dominate at Pan Am trampoline and tumbling championships
AA Competition DTB Cup Stuttgart:
1. Price, Elizabeth (USA) – 58,098
2. Seitz, Elisabeth (GER) – 55,566
3. Steingruber, Giulia (SUI) – 55,565
4. Bui, Kim (GER) – 55,165
5. Ferrari, Vanessa (ITA) – 54,065
6. Tunney, Rebecca (GBR) – 53,832
Click PLAY or watch her new Bars on YouTube. (14.933)
Click PLAY or watch her Amanar on YouTube.
Elizabeth had some deductions on Floor and Beam, but no falls.
Details by Brigid on Couch Gymnast – DTB Cup Stuttgart Women’s AA: How it Went Down
related – Eric of Gymnet.org reports for Examiner: Behind the scenes at the Stuttgart World Cup!
Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.
15-year-old Noémi Mákra is arguably the best gymnast from Hungary since the Henrietta Onodi, one of the gymnastics superstars of the nineties. She turns senior in 2013 so look for her in Antwerp. …
She has very good execution. While she doesn’t do the highest difficulty, her E scores are usually very high. … At a recent Olympic Hopes Cup in the Czech Republic, she won the all around competition with a 55.400 and earned E scores in the 9s on both vault and bars. …
details on Couch Gymnast
That links to more TCG Junior Watch Profiles:
Darcy Norman (AUS)
Pilar Rubagotti (ITA)
Lou Nina (CHI)
Charlotte Sullivan (NZL)
Chantysha Netteb (NED)
Maelys Plessis (FRA)
Raisa Batyrova (RUS)
Kim Janas (GER)
Maria Kharenkova (RUS)
Angel Romaeo (GBR/WALES)
Lara Mori (ITA)
Polina Schennikova (USA)
Shallon Olsen (CAN)
Using FaceTime on an iPad, Paul will give feedback to your gymnasts LIVE.
Here’s how it works.
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If any of your gymnasts want to continue with the Olympic Champion assistant coach:
Coaching -1Hr. – $75.00
Routine Analysis – $30.00
(via Jay Thornton and Stick It Media)
See more on Freaking.
I’ll be leading Coach / Athlete Camps in several nations in December, part of the roll out of the new FIG Age Group Programme:
Twenty-eight federations have committed to implement the programme and the FIG will attempt to assist them with training and monitoring camps within their own countries so that many more of their coaches and gymnasts can be involved….
In the coming years, this FIG Programme is expected to become among the largest of FIG’s developmental initiatives. …
Nations that adopt these routine regulations can compete internationally with one another.
Sweet. 🙂
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