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Best write-up I’ve seen on the first annual. 🙂

Tony Retrosi:

… It really was a fantastic conference. Well thought out, well organized, and pretty well attended. What made the biggest impression on me was the enthusiasm of the coaches that were in attendance. Following one of my lectures I had so many questions that I had to move out into the hallway to answer them to let the next speaker into the room. Out in the hallway BETH GARDNER was running a preschool warm up with 20 coaches rolling around and doing a crab walk! I took “my group” down to the hotel lobby (which had a very nice fireplace) and continued our discussion for about 45 minutes. …

Beth Gardner, Christophe Lambert, Tony, Dave Ross

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Two more much appreciated American clinicians: Steve Greeley and Frank Sahlein.

… Kathryn Geddert, coach of World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist Jordyn Wieber from Twistars Gymnastics …

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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzgyNjYwMjg5?related=1

Watch more video of Technique Tuesday on gymnastike.org

Brigid Couch Gymnast McCarthy on Facebook:

… a space-y Montage (not just because it is Natalie Merchant singing ‘Space Oddity’) …

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… just 20 miles off the city of Moscow. ‘Ozero Krugloye’, situated on a plot of 96,000 square meters and surrounded by a woodland park, serves as a training base for the swimming, fencing and gymnastics national teams. …

One of the mandatory parts of the training program on “Ozero Krugloye” is massage. Massages are made to all athletes every night, plus an extra one during a break in-between the training. As you can imagine the national team is never far away from the massage table. …

read more – TuneGym – Russian Gymnastics Training Center – A look inside ‘Ozero Krugloye’

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Better days for Alexandrov.

A British photographer who captures elite athletes at their moment of peak perfection has won the Grange Prize, the annual $50,000 award for photography given by Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario. …

CBC

Jo Longhurst first came to prominence with The Refusal, a body of work for which she spent a number of years photographing Whippets, British show dogs bred to ideal standards. This captivating examination of physical perfection led to her most recent series, Other Spaces, which explores the physical and emotional experiences of elite gymnasts. …

GRANGE prize

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Thanks Dale. But I think I might prefer the dog pics. 🙂

I hope Grace Chiu doesn’t see those photos.

ESSENCE is proud to honor extraordinary Black women each month, and in this issue it features its “2012 Women of the Year” — including Gabrielle Douglas, First Lady Michelle Obama, Robin Roberts and more!

When you get top billing over Michelle Obama, you’ve made the BIG TIME. 🙂

Full Twist:

… Many thought Ferrari would retire after the London 2012 Olympic Games, especially losing out on a bronze medal to Aliya Mustafina at the Floor finals due to tie breaking rules. So far Ferrari is scheduled to be competing in the Tournai International Competition in France on November 3rd, the Stuttgart World Cup and the Glasgow World Cup December 8th. This little video cropped up online this week:

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Vanessa Ferrari … is the 2006 World All Around Champion and competed for her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics …

She’s now age-21. And looking fierce.

I resigned from FIG judging in 2006, partly in response to my disappointment in FIG abandoning the “perfect 10” judging system. Partly in disappointment with the FIG Men’s Judging program under your predecessor, Adrian Stoica. Especially how the Men’s judges bungled the 2004 Olympics under Stoica’s watch.

But with your election as new chair of the Men’s Technical Committee, I’m inspired to make a comeback, sending a request to rejoin the ranks of Canadian judges.

I’d advise, Steve, that I’m one judge who applies the rules as written. Attending Worlds in 2010 and 2011, it was obvious that Execution panels were not doing so. Gymnasts like Zou Kai on horizontal bar were not being deducted for poor form and line.

Is this layout?

Those screen grabs I took from Zou Kai’s London Team Qualification routine. (VIDEO)

Yes Zou Kai qualified to the Final, as usual.

If there’s some unwritten Code being used, Steve, I’ll not apply it. Expect me to go out high on Uchimura and low on Zou Kai if ever assigned to judge them.

Enthusiastic for the future, as a judge I’d love to be part of the solution, not the problem.

related – my Report Card on last cycle’s MAG rules.

March 14-17th, 2013.

University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Dave Holland put together a cute promo video.

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Registration is OPEN.

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