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I postulate that totalitarian States like China will increasingly see entrepreneurs opening for profit gymnastics clubs.

Chinese Gymnastics Blog in 2010 estimated 10,000 girls training Artistic gymnastics:

… In contrast, there are 5.2 million (76% female) 6 year and older gymnastics participants in the States according to the statistics published on USA gymnastics website.

… fewer and fewer families are willing to send their daughters to train for sports when these young girls could study computers or play piano instead. The number of kids training for gymnastics is even considerable less than many other sports, like table tennis and badminton, which also operate under the same “whole country” regime …

On the potential solutions to the unpopularity of the sports, … the idea of “happy gymnastics” training method. Li Ning , the former champions and one of most successful athlete-turned entrepreneur in China, is undoubtedly the pioneer in promoting “happy gymnastic”. Li Ning built two private gymnastics schools in Guandong province, which are different from the state-funded sports school. Recently Li Ning is planning to take over another successful gymnastics-oriented elementary school in Shanghai and convert it to Li Ning Gymnastics school No. 3.

All those efforts, along with other attempts to build club-style gymnastics system (like the one in the States), will help Chinese gymnastics to establish a more diversified training system. …

Brief Introduction to Chinese Gymnastics System

I couldn’t quickly find a link to Li Ning’s clubs. Leave a comment if you’ve seen them online.

Kohei Uchimura performing a full twisting Tkachev aka Liukin

Supermura

Nastia Liukin on WhoSay

TEAM
1 – 157.500 – WAG-Wales
2 – 154.550 – WAG-Sweden
3 – 147.300 – WAG-Scotland

1 – 252.125 – MAG-Finland
2 – 245.600 – MAG-Norway
3 – 241.800 – MAG-Denmark

… Sweden’s Ida Gustafsson captured the all-around title for the second straight year (52.85) over junior challengers Romaeo (52.0) and Sweden’s Emma Larsson (51.2).

Denmark’s Helge Vammen topped the men’s all-around competition (83.6) and qualified in first place to Saturday’s event finals on pommel horse and parallel bars. Wales’s Clinton Purnell (83.1) and Finland’s Kasper Holopainen (81.9) finished second and third …

full results on Examiner – Welsh women, Finnish men in front at Northern European Gymnastics Championships

Click PLAY or watch Ida’s Vault on YouTube.

Therefore, in the 2016 Code of Points FIG TCs opted to make it even more difficult for the general public to know who won.

FINALS score = (DV 1+DV2)/2 + 10.0 -(E1+E2)

AllTheTimeGymnastics on YouTube:

… In my opinion, this will not go over well because the coaches, the gymnasts, and the fans like to see big scores, and with this scoring system the scores are much lower. My example vaulter is the reigning World Champion of vaulting, the one and only McKayla Maroney …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

GymnasticInTheHeart put together a montage of the individual gymnasts at the London Olympics.

Olympians forever. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Couch Gymnast does by far the best job of recognizing gymnasts from all around the world. What would we do without Brigid and her contributors?

(via Gymnast #391)

Kathryn Geddert, coach of World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist Jordyn Wieber from Twistars Gymnastics. Kathryn shares a drill that helps gymnasts with the ballistic splitting of leaps on beam and floor. Kathryn talks about what should be focused on during the drill and the numbers she uses with this drill in her workouts.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NjI3NjU4NzYz?related=1

Watch more video of Technique Tuesday on gymnastike.org

At the recent Alberta Gymnastics Congress I got my first chance to see this document. It’s a Rec instructor training program for ages 13-14.

Gymnastics Canada has updated their (old) Development Leader (Dev’L) program, rebranding it the “Pre-CIT program”.

details via Rec Gymnastics

GymRep Camp in Quebec has one of these BLOBs. Much deadlier than they look.

… some folks at Lake Powell in Southern Utah kicking …

Click PLAY or watch it on LiveLeak.

http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=a02c50568b5e

Thanks George.

… When FIG President Professor Bruno Grandi and Secretary General André Gueisbuhler visited our International Headquarters in Montreal, we seized the opportunity to take them behind the scenes of our new show Amaluna …

Acrobatic coach Stacy Clark.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (10min)