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Robert Stanescu, left, and his wife Ruxandra Stanescu are the owners of Alpha Gymnastics Academy in Windsor.

(JASON KRYK/The Windsor Star)

… A native of Romania, Stanescu and his wife, Ruxandra, opened their club in a former warehouse space earlier this month.

With the help of family and friends, they did all the infrastructure themselves.

“We had to demolish walls inside, we had to dig the pit,” Stanescu said.

“We went a month without electricity. For the first two weeks, we worked only with flashlights and then we got a generator. All the power tools had to be battery operated.”

Such major renovations were all new territory for Ruxandra, also a Romanian-trained gymnast.

“I cut studs, I put up drywall, did framing,” she said. …

read more – New gymnastics club opens in Windsor

Our Tumbl Trak crew dropped in at Olympic Gymnastics Center in Silverdale, Washington.

An excellent gym.

We were testing some prototype equipment.

I love giant Earth balls. They had one stored dangling from the ceiling.

photos

Thanks Greg Mulcher and everyone at OGC for being so welcoming.

Australian Youth Olympic Games:

New Zealand has some rising stars. They proved that point on Friday at the Australian Youth Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia Trampoline events. They claimed a gold, a silver and a bronze medal.

Dylan Schmidt placed second in the Men’s Individual Trampoline event. His final scored 57.185 closely behind China’s Changxin Liu’s 58.065. He is quoted below:

The 16-year-old admitted that he was disappointed with silver, after performing three consistently solid routines, finishing overall with 158.715.

“I’m gutted I came second, but I knew that the Chinese were going to be good. I got a personal best, so I can’t be angry at that,” the Auckland-born gymnast said. …

Trampoline Pundit – New Zealand’s Future

That links to one of Dylan’s routines from AYOGs.

Click PLAY or watch an interview from April 2012 on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/v/10150842921856255

Chris Saccullo:

If there’s one thing NCAA Gymnastics fans can agree upon it’s Vanessa.

Have an amazing season Zam!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

This related video is a montage of interesting UCLA Floor choreography. Plenty of Vanessa.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… 1700 athletes from 30 countries descended on Sydney for the sixth and most successful Australian Youth Olympic Festival from January 16-20, 2013. …

DIVING
Men’s
3m Springboard – Rongquan Chen (CHN)
Synchronised 3m Springboard – China
10m Platform – Ang Gao (CHN)
Synchronised 10m Springboard – China

Women’s
3m Springboard – QulinZheng (CHN)
Synchronised 3m Springboard – China
10m Platform – Xiaohui Huang (CHN)
Synchronised 10m Platform – China

ARTISTIC
Women
Team – China
All Around – Tyesha Mattis (GBR)
Beam – Teal Grindle (GBR)
Floor – Amy Tinkler (GBR)
Uneven Bars – Jie Mei (CHN)
Vault – Tyesha Mathis (GBR)

Liu Zhilin photo by Nadia Boyce — see more pics from AYOG

Men
Team – Great Britain
All Around – Ruoteng Xiao (CHN)
Floor – Dominick Cunningham (GBR) & James Hall (GBR)
Horizontal Bar – Nile Wilson (GBR)
Parallel Bars – Nile Wilson (GBR)
Pommel Horse – Ruoteng Xiao (CHN)
Rings – Courtney Tulloch (GBR)
Vault –Di Wu (CHN)

RHYTHMIC
Team – Australia
All Around – Michaela Whitehouse (AUS)

TRAMP
Men
Individual – Changxin Liu (CHN)
Synchronised – Great Britain

Women
Individual – Yujie Jia (CHN)
Synchronised – New Zealand

2013 AYOF: Sport by sport wrap

Andrei Rodionenko Head coach, men and women

Valentina Rodionenko Senior coach, men and women
Valery Alfosov Senior coach, men
Evgeny Grebenkin Senior coach, women
Nikolai Krukov Senior coach, junior men
Olga Bulgakova Senior coach, junior women
Nikolai Yepishin Senior coach, boys and girls

Gennady Elfimov Coach, women
Alexander Alexandrov Coach, women
Anton Stolyar Coach, women

Vasily Ivanov Coach-acrobat, women

Marina Bulashenko Choreographer, women
Olga Burova Choreographer, women

Vitaly Olgychev Coach-masseur, women
Vladimir Timonkin Coach-doctor, women

Nikolai Suchilin Coach, technical preparation, men and women
Sergei Ryubakov Coach-engineer, men and women
Dmitri Skakodub Administrator of the training process, men, women
Andrei Belikov Coach-operator, men, women
Alexei Yushin Coach, men, women

Andrei Dukhno Coach-acrobat, men
Vladimir Gaverdovsky Coach, men
Alexei Blyushka Coach-masseur, men
Konstantin Lyskov Coach-doctor, men

Ludmila Mamontova Choreographer, men, juniors

Sergei Andrianov Coach, technical preparation, juniors
Yuri Korolev Coach, technical preparation, juniors

Yuri Barinov Coach-acrobat, juniors
Artem Voinov Coach, technical preparation, juniors
Dmitri Gusev Coach-acrobat, juniors

Larissa Efremova Choreographer, juniors

Dmitri Kurov Administrator of the training process, junior teams
Yuri Golubev Coach-masseur, juniors
Alexandra Popova Coach-masseur, juniors
Sergei Gulevsky Coach-doctor, juniors

Grigory Marsov Coach-doctor, juniors

Igor Kozenkov Coach, technical preparation, boys and girls

Elsewhere, it has been confirmed that Viktor Razumovsky is now personal coach to senior WAG Anastasia Grishina.

All that’s from a Rewriting Russian Gymnastics post which has details.

My favourite Men’s Artistic montage editor is WS van Wijk.

Here’s his latest.

Just a compilation of some of the gymnastics, champions and medal winners of the the 2009-2012 quadrennium. I tried to show a good variation of gymnasts and gymnastics, not too much of the same, but I somehow always end up with a whole lot of Kohei Uchimura 😛

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Gymnast Crossing)

related – my video on teaching SAFE rope climb

A perfect 10.0 on uneven bars for junior All-American Mackenzie Caquatto highlighted No. T3 Florida gymnastics’ (2-1, 1-1 SEC) win Friday in front of a Stephen C. O’Connell Center crowd of 5,753. The Gators turned in a season-best 197.30 …

GatorZone

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The Men’s Horizontal Bar rules are a mess. (I grudgingly concede they have been slightly improved this cycle from the last.)

Of many problems on Pipe, worst is overuse of Rybalko and variations. It’s almost a “compulsory” element.

Here’s perhaps the best one I’ve ever seen.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

THAT’s an exciting skill.

But it’s more often done like this.

The Rybalko is deemed completed when the 2nd hand regrasps. Unlike WAG, 0-30 degrees on the regrasp is NO deduction, 31-45 = 0.1 deduction, 46-90 degrees = .3 deduction. After horizontal, it’s non-recognition of the skill.

Under the 2016 Code, if a gymnast does one Rybalko, he cannot do another to mixed grip. That’s good.

But he is allowed to do a Stalder Rybalko. Still too repetitive, for my liking.

Obviously, the Rybalko should have been devalued from D-part to C-part.

More gymnasts would work the flying giant with double twist (D-part) instead. A change I’d love.

related – Anna Li works the skill. Hers is even more a Giant full, roll to Eagle grip, however.

Those gifs and videos were linked by Masters Gymnastics.