YOU can Air Flare

If you suspend yourself from a tree.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… I really want to try building one of those. Looks like FUN. 🙂 … Like a Pommel Bucket.

Thanks Mike.

related – pigmie123 has some tutorials for Airflare and Halo (VIDEO)

Olympics on YouTube

@theallaround:

Check IOC youtube channel, find archived all the Gymnastics competition (Qualifications, Team, AA, EF) from London 2012

VIDEO

I’m assuming they won’t play in the USA.

Click PLAY or watch Beam Highlights on YouTube.

Many are convinced that Ponor should have won the Bronze over Aly. A video showdown is yet to come.

Pablo Flores – first “airflares”

His brother tells that Bboy Pablo was first to do air flares continuously — Aug. 1st, 1998 — with the Climax Soul Control crew.

One of the pioneers of modern “Airmoves”.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Leave a comment if you know otherwise.

And who’s first on YouTube to show a single air flare?

Morgan Hamm was the first Artistic gymnast I saw do it in competition.

related – petition on Change.org asking that USAG “credit” the invention of two air flares in series to Pablo.

I’m happy to credit him. But didn’t sign the petition as it makes no sense. Naming conventions in Artistic Gymnastics (FIG and/or USAG JO) normally have no relation to what similar skills are named in other sports: snowboard, skateboard, tricking, dance, etc.

Adidas UK music video

Louis Smith sings.

The London Olympics are over and the success of the Host Nation has been celebrated in a video for Adidas UK where a handful of the country’s star athletes got together to lip sync to Queen’s smash hit “Don’t Stop Me Now“. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

GymRep & Cheer-Rep, Quebec

GymRep is one of the best and most important Summer Camps in North America.

“GymRep” is Artistic Gymnastics for girls and boys. (The number of weeks for Men will be expanded next year.)

“Cheer-Rep” are weeks dedicated to competitive Cheer. About 30hrs of work-out during a week are scheduled.

This Camp experience is finely tuned. Tightly scripted. Every minute planned.

The facility is gorgeous, equipped with new Gymnova equipment.

I brought with me some Tumbl Trak “demonstration equipment”. The new Fitness Wheel made a nice addition. 🙂

David Altmeyer, originally from France, now Head Coach at Viagym in Montreal, was Head Coach 2012 for GymRep Camp.

Frank Legras, from Marseilles France, was, the week I was there,”Top Gun” ~ visiting guest coach working with all coaches.

I’d heard the stories of GymRep, but had to see it with my own eyes to believe it.

It’s in a gorgeous lakeside location, but still conveniently close to Montreal.

On arrival, you’d swear you are looking at a Circus Camp. They had 10 bungie spotting belts on Trampoline devices (6 Tramps, 4 snap down Mini-tramps) and 12 bungie spotting belts on Beam. (one for dismounts, one for mounts)

Every girl, every skill, is spotted by either belt or TWO coaches. It’s amazingly safe.

And FUN. A DJ blasts loud music and directs traffic with a PA. One of the coaches on the gym floor also has a wireless mic, directing traffic.

Anglophones like me are unsure of whether to go to GymRep for fear of not understanding French. In fact, they had one week this summer with near 50% Anglophones.

One new innovation is a BIG SCREEN showing translation into English.

A Gibbon slackline set-up was the best I’ve ever seen. Very safe.

More of my photos …

More GymRep facility photos on Facebook

More GymRep photos and videos

Check out GymRep.com (English)

Uchimura podium wipes out

I argue Kohei Uchimura is the greatest gymnast in the history of the sport. If you had him, Scherbo, Kato, _______ all training together, in their prime, their consensus would be that Kohei’s the greatest.

Yet he made more mistakes in London, had more problems, than in his entire career up to that point. Here are a couple.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Has Kohei peaked in terms of his ability to hit routines? … Was something wrong in London?

Leave a comment if you have a theory.

Epke watching Epke

Here’s something different.

Full Twist linked to a video clip of Epke’s reactions while watching the Horizontal Bar Final. (Dutch)

OR …

Click PLAY or watch his CRAZY winning routine on YouTube.

NBC obnoxiously critical …

A supercut from the 2012 Olympics coverage proving once and for all that these NBC announcers are indeed gold-medal-caliber A-Holes.

Click PLAY or watch it on Jest.

http://www.jest.com/e/186273/olympic-commentators-are-dicks

Actually, I don’t mind sport commentators being critical. So long as they are accurate. 🙂

Thanks Claudine.