Teen Choice Live tour

Rita Wieber, Oct 29, 2012:

Jordyn, Gabby and Aly are all participating in a second tour called “Teen Choice Live”. I don’t have all the details yet, but the tour is scheduled for 43 stops between December 28 and March 3. The tour includes performances in gymnastics, cheerleading and music …

Gym Mom’s Blog

I tagged this post “Circus”. 🙂

Gymcastic – Episode 7: Ruggeri

This week we interview multi-time NCAA Champion and elite standout, Paul Ruggeri to find out what makes this fan favorite so unique. We discuss FIG elections, Nastia’s new agent, Geddert’s latest blog post, Jake Dalton’s clothing line, the genius Chetkovich Cup, winners of the Northern European Championships, NBC’s alleged mistranslation of a Khorkina interview and give you tons of Halloween costume ideas.

Episode 7: Ruggeri, FIG Elections, Geddert on Goodbyes & Halloween Costumes Ideas

Audio quality is a little better this week.

Here’s a better version of Paul’s amazing Bar routine (VIDEO), the best I’ve ever seen done by a guy.

And here’s Paul’s resulting rip.

Paul and Anna Li on Tour

training jumps up to mats

Al Fong:

In our gym, mats do the talking …

Watch Sophia use a mat to jump straddle and jump split. It helps her understand what a “180 degree split” means, what “parallel to the floor” feels like, and if she was high enough …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

youth sport a good investment

A new Laureus-funded report has shown that community sports projects not only successfully tackle youth crime, but can save governments’ money as well.

The new Sport Scores report, which looked at community sports projects across Europe in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, shows that every €1 invested in sports projects can reduce costs to society by an average €5.02.

These savings come from reducing costs to victims of crime, police and the courts. …

source

EDWIN MOSES
chairman, Laureus
WorLd sports academy

PDF of that report

By comparison, “tough on crime” policies are a bad investment. 😦

on the FIG elections …

NORA SCHULER has some commentary. And speculation.

… The biggest news of the elections was the demise of Adrian Stoica. The veteran of international sports politics went for broke. He ran for the FIG presidency but not as vice president or for a spot on the Executive Committee.

He was challenged by Steve Butcher (USA) for the MTC presidency and yet decided not to run for a simple membership. Stoica risked a lot and lost everything. He lost both elections and is now completely out of the FIG. This leaves Romania with no representation at the top-level of the sport at all. …

read more – Editorial: Four More Years

See the election results on IG.

Stoica is very busy in Romania, in any case.

related – Blythe Lawrence commentary