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Rewriting Russian Gymnastics posted a nice montage of “spins“.

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Somebody should edit a coffee table photo book called “Gyms of the SEC“.

They are fantastic.

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The big buzz at Woodward West this year …

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12-year old Tom Schaar lands the first ever 1080 while skating the MegaRamp at Woodward West in Tehachapi, CA.

He’s got a lot more air time than he would have on a half pipe, of course. But what could you stomp when you were age-12? 🙂

I signed an online petition — and shared it to Facebook.

Gustavus is an NCAA division III gymnastics program close to Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Threatened.

Thanks Kim.

Final team

Diana Bulimar
Diana Chelaru
Larisa Iordache
Sandra Izbasa
Catalina Ponor

Chelaru replaces Haidu from the provisional list after a good showing at the “friendly”.

ROM v FRA v ITA v GER v Mixed Group

Romania (ROU) 180.200
Italy (ITA) 169.450
Germany (GER) 167.300
France (FRA) 160.150

1. Iordache 60.85
2. Izbasa 59.15 (competing Bars for 13.95)
3. Ferrari 57.8.

Full Twist – Results & Videos: ROM v FRA v ITA v GER v Mixed Group

details on Couch Gymnast – Romanian International Friendly: A Brief Write-Up and Romania Names Olympic Team

photo by Carmen Manda on Facebook

Ksenia Afanasyeva
Victoria Komova
Aliya Mustafina
Anastasia Grishina
Maria Paseka

RESERVES: Tatiana Nabieva; Yulia Inshina

Emin Garibov
David Belyavskiy
Alexander Balandin
Denis Ablyazin
Igor Pakhomenko

RESERVES: Sergey Khorokhordin; Nikita Ignatyev

No Tatiana. 😦 London now 15% less entertaining.

Paseka must be the one landing Amanar.

(via RSport)

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(via FIG on Facebook)

Gymnastike:

10. The Maroney/Ross Connection
9. Mikulak is Undeniable
8. Appreciative Alternates
7. The Smiling Illini
6. Bridget Sloan
5. Floor Exercise Brilliance
4. Nastia’s Graceful Exit
3. The Crowd
2. LIVE Team Announcements
1. One Word: Comebacks

details – Top Ten: U.S. Olympic Trials Moments

Here’s that emotional interview (#6) with Bridget, injured out of Trials.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NDgzNjQ1MTQx?related=1

Watch more video of 2012 Olympic Team Trials on gymnastike.org

The Canadian/British 🙂 coach and Beam guru, Carol-Angela Orchard, visited Renmore Gymnastics in Ireland.

see more photos from the clinic on Facebook

At one of his sessions at USA Congress, Dr. Bill Sands talked about the mechanism of fear. At a stage of brain development, children finally start to grasp consequences of action.

The age is predictable.

I feel it happens to both boys and girls, but there’s some sort of override in the male psyche — perhaps Testosterone. 🙂

Boys can almost always overcome fear issues in the gym. Some girls cannot.

Most often it involves backwards elements.

Fear can be a great struggle. Right now Emily Wilson’s daughter is having problems.

Try everything. Especially high reps of simpler skills.

For example, for backward tumbling balking on saltos, do endless series of backward handsprings on Tumbl Trak. At least 50 backward handsprings a day before going back to somersaults.

Fear can be overcome. 🙂

One strategy to reduce the frequency and severity of fear going backwards is to train forward elements first. For example, I like girls to do forward flyaway before backward flyaway. Forwards is not “scary”. The confidence gained later transfers to the backward. Usually.

(via Tumbl Trak on Facebook)