We’ve seen plenty of Aliya Mustafina montages of late. Here’s another. 🙂 From Russia.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
310lb Anthony Adams – GYMNAST
Anthony Adams is a football player, most recently for the Chicago Bears.
But at 310lb (141kg) — when in shape — “Spice” decided to start training for the Rio Olympics. In Gymnastics.
How’s that working out for him?
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
His tryout for professional basketball wasn’t nearly so successful.
t-shirt — If gymnastics were easy …
Thanks George.
Anti-Bullying Awareness Month
October is National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month in the USA and the UK. Elsewhere?
(via Inside Cheerleading)
related good news story – Whitney Kropp, the bullied teen from West Branch, Michigan who was named to her school’s homecoming court as a prank by fellow students. Star of the night.
LIKE the Support Whitney Kropp page on Facebook.
MAG Jr 2012 Cottbus
Markos Baikos filled me in on the annual Men’s Junior competition in Germany, a big success, as always.
The competition format:
– All Around
– Apparatus Finals
3 categories:
· I born 2000*–1999
· II born 1998–1997
· III born 1996–1995 (AA Results PDF)
Winning Juniors: Serhani Tara (SUI; middle), Reny Clerc (FRA; left) and Sascha Coradi (SUI)
GYMmedia has a report in English. That links to a more detailed report in German.
It includes some highlight videos. And links to results.
Markos was quite impressed with the up-and-coming French gymnasts. Canada’s Ryan Oehrlein on Rings was a highlight, too.
Watch Canada’s Anthony Tawfik’s Pommels on YouTube. (Bronze 1999-2000)
competition details (PDF)
Jaeger – low to high
Laura-Ann Chong spent the summer in Montreal training for a new Cirque du Soleil show — Amaluna.
She was asked to also train a couple of weeks for “bateau“, my favourite act from O, in Vegas.
Somewhere in all that she got time to post this “new” skill.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I’m sure I’ve seen it done before. But cannot recall who or where.
GymCastic 3 – Anna Li
Audio quality is improving, but it’s still not perfect. (And the wrong episode was initially uploaded to iTunes — now fixed. 🙂 )
Alexandrov Out, Fashion in the Code, Anna Li Interview
Released Oct 01, 2012
Click through to iTunes to listen. Or subscribe. All free.
GymCastic on Facebook
@GymCast
GymCastic (a) gmail.com
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Gigi Khazback Farid, editor of the World of Gymnastike blog, has started another new audio podcast for non-experts.
She’s using YouTube rather than iTunes.
• Explaining Basics of Elite Gymnastics Episode 1
• Explaining Basics of Elite Gymnastics Episode 2
Thera-Band FlexBar
At Taiso, Saskatoon I saw this conditioning aid.
Marketed for golfers and tennis players, Taiso is using it for conditioning the wrists … in an attempt to reduce wrist pain.
Wrists pain on Pommels is the #1 overuse injury for competitive male gymnasts.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Useful for general wrist strengthening too, of course.
The Bars get softer over time, with use.
McKayla Maroney. IMPRESSED.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Olympic Women’s Gymnastics
reddit and pinterest
You can now share posts on this site to reddit and pinterest via the Share this: MORE button on every post.
If you’ve not tried out those sites, check out …
• a pinterest search for “gymnastics”
• a reddit search for “gymnastics”
I just subscribed to the sub-reddit Gymnastics feed.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 