MelTproductionss put together this excellent documentary about serious Women’s Artistic Gymnastics training.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
That’s Silvia’s Gymnastics in Pennsylvania.
Cal Gymnastics under Justin Howell
The NEW Head Coach at Berkeley is off to a rip-roaring start.
Through two meets, Cal holds a team scoring average of 195.000 and has matched their win total from last season through only two meets of the 2013 campaign. The ranking is their first since January of 2008, when they were ranked number 22. The last time they were ranked as high as 17 was in March of 2003 under former head coach Cari DuBois.
“We’re really trying to build off these first two meets and keep that confidence going,” said head coach Justin Howell. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
A recap of our first meet of the season in Haas Pavilion and the first gymnastics meet televised on the PAC-12 networks! Unranked Cal upset three top 25 teams with a score of 195.425 for first place. …
Nice to see the “saved” California Golden Bears program doing so well. 🙂
10 month old chin-ups
… too tiny to see the computer screen from the floor, baby Jonas does nine pull-ups in just over a minute. For a kid this motivated, potty-training will be a breeze. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Thanks to Sharon Finney Doyle for the link.
Spiderman at the window
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee
… word quickly spread that there were superheroes descending outside the building, and adults and children alike gathered to wait for Spider-Man or Captain America to appear. The three men behind the exciting surprise were Steve Oszaniec, his son Danny Oszaniec and Jordan Emerson, who all work for commercial window cleaning company, American National Skyline. …
A similar event happened just recently, on January 10, at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. …
(via tywkiwdbi)
making Parallettes
NCAA Men’s Gymnastics
The 2013 NCAA Men’s Gymnastics season is officially off and running. A new scoring system greets gym fans, with a 6-up/5-count scenario, which will be replaced by a 5-up/5-count method after March 1. …
The weekend’s top scoring team was Penn State, as they actually accomplished that by a whopping margin of 22.30! …
Illinois had the 2nd highest team score (425.45) in their opening win over UIC (385.75). …
read more on Stick it Media – Freshmen Make Big Impact in Opening Weekend of Men’s College Gymnastics
Click PLAY or watch Penn State’s Fall training video on YouTube.
Penn State will host NCAA Championships 2013 Apr 19-21st. That’s the same weekend as Women’s Championships at UCLA. I can’t go to both. 😦
related:
• NCAA – Players ready to stick it this season
• Couch Gymnast – MAG NCAA Week One Brief
Coca-Cola fights obesity
MAG Code skills test
Robert van Oort from Netherlands has a terrific online resource.
You can test your knowledge of the 2016 FIG MAG code of points.
Check it out at MAGelements.nl
The default test is 50 questions / apparatus. Click through those and it will give you your percentage correct.
headspring basketball shot
Does this look real to you?
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That’s supposed to be Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat.
Lexie Priessman – Floor
HUGE tumbling passes planned for the 2012 USA Junior National Champion.
