Guinness record 35 backhandsprings

A high school cheerleader flipped her way into the Guinness Book of World Records Friday night. …

Miranda Ferguson, a 16-year-old junior … during halftime for the St. Mark’s School of Texas game against the Oakridge School. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (updated video)

Yeesh. I know plenty of Cheer tumblers who’d have a chance to better than number first try.

My old coach Shiro Tanaka must have done 35 on a football field back in the 1970s. For fun.

(via BBC)

DWTS – Shawn Johnson quickstep

Very acrobatic.

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(via Examiner)

For comparison, here’s rehearsal at the Not So Dancing With The Stars Tour. 🙂

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(via Brigid Couch Gymnast McCarthy on Facebook)

Kellogg’s Tour of Champions

9/16/12 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA. … fan video …

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One innovation is a Tumbl Trak Air Floor built into the tumbling diagonal.

(via Triple Twist Gym Blog on Facebook)

Disability Gymnastics GBR

… Disability Gymnastics is ‘Pan-Disability‘, (in other words; it means that it is accessible to people with any impairment). The Disability Gymnastics competitive structure is growing fast and at the pinnacle of this structure, National Disability Gymnastics Squads are also now in place for Men’s, Women’s, Trampoline and Rhythmic Gymnastics. …

BG – About Disability Gymnastics

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(via Disabled World)

ILLINOIS tops NCAA preseason poll

Ono informs that the Men’s College preseason poll rankings posted on Troester have changed.

1 Illinois
2 Michigan
3 Oklahoma 
4 Penn State
5 Stanford 

GymInfo – 2013 Men’s Gymnastics Pre-Season Coaches Poll

Justin Spring’s reigning national champion gymnastics team was ranked No. 1 in the preseason GymInfo Coaches poll, which was released Sunday.

Illinois received six of 15 first-place votes. …

Illini gymnasts rate top spot

GymCastic – Louis Smith

Episode 4: Louis Smith, Spanny’s Athlete Oath, Making Men’s Gymnastics More Popular

Guest appearance – Dvora Meyers

Listen to it here. Or subscribe via iTunes.

related – Uncle Tim has been posting like a madman. All MAG coaches should be following that blog.

Gabrielle Douglas montage

Another excellent collaboration with Chris Saccullo on the video edit, D. Santos rapping the mash-up.

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Camp of Champions, Spokane

Dan Alch helped organize a training camp fund raiser at Northwest Gymnastics for coach Mike Armstrong, who’s ill.

160 athletes enjoyed working with 30 top coaches. 3rd Level Consulting, Tumbl Trak, and many many others contributed.

Leave comments on Dan Alch’s Camp of Champions Facebook.

Human Flag supporting woman

Dominic Lacasse. Special thanks to Geneviève Bérubé. On September 28th at the circus school of Quebec city.

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(via All Things Gym)