Check out a practice day for elite gymnast, Casey Jo Magee, as she trains in pursuit of the 2012 US Olympic Trials. As a former collegiate gymnast, Magee is one of the most decorated gymnasts in Arkansas history.
Upon graduation, Magee still had the urge to compete and qualified international elite. She competed last summer the the Visa Championships and has continued to upgrade and improve since then. In the fall of 2011, Magee joined Dave Kuzara’s coaching staff at Western Michigan to serve as an assistant for the Broncos while training under Coach Kuzara. Magee will begin her summer competitive season this weekend at the American Classic elite qualifier at the Karolyi Ranch.
At Gymnastics Adventure in Saskatchewan, kids looking for their clothes that have been left “lying around” sometimes find their missing duds hung from the top of the rope.
This is a REMINDER to put clothing away in the first place. AND is good exercise. 🙂
A freshman who capped her collegiate debut with two NCAA titles, Kytra Hunter of the University of Florida has won the Honda Sports Award for gymnastics after being crowned the NCAA all-around and vault champion for 2012. Her selection by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program recognizes Hunter as the country’s top female athlete in her sport. …
Hunter is the first gymnast from the University of Florida to achieve the all-around title …
A vibrating suit could be the key to ensuring Britain’s athletes perform with inch-perfect precision at this summer’s Olympics.
… tiny sensors attached to the wearer’s skin trigger motors to tell them when they move in the correct way.
A computer tracks the user’s movements in real time and the results can be monitored by a coach as Olympic hopefuls practice. …
British Olympic rhythmic gymnast Mimi Cesar, 17, is using the technology to polish her routines.
… ‘The suit will be especially useful in group gymnastics because you get points for synchronisation and how you all look together so it will help gymnasts do the routines exactly the same.
‘If all five of them wore the suits they would know exactly where to place their back or body …
… As we all know, the stupidest rule in all of NCAA gymnastics requires gymnasts to suddenly perform two vaults in event finals.
Either they need to do away with the second vault and just have them perform the same vault twice, or they need to require potential qualifiers to perform a second vault in Semifinals, like we currently see in elite.
Both of those solutions would eliminate the insufferable parade on non-10.0 vaults in finals. …
That’s dangerous. Chucking a second vault you don’t train regularly.
And Vault is almost always the most disappointing Women’s Final. It was again in 2012.
… In a final marked by only three athletes attempting two 10.0 vaults, Kytra Hunter came out on top. The 2012 AA champ came up with a near stick on her Yurchenko Layout 1 1/2 and then landed a Yurechenko Layout Full with a large step to secure the win. She outpaced Bama’s Diandra Milliner, who threw the same two vaults for 2nd. Georgia’s Kat Ding stuck a solid Yurchenko Layout full and then added a tucked version (with a step) for 3rd. Defending champ Marissa King had a low landing on her Tsuakahara Layout Full, after landing a Tsukahara Layout 1 1/2.
“Everyone on vault doesn’t really have another vault, so everyone feels the same about it. They’re all confused. It’s kind of hectic.” — Rheagan Courville on the two vault rule in NCAA event finals, to The Daily Reveille
“I don’t train it at all. But in the last week, we’ve been doing one or two in practice. I’m really scared of that vault (Yurchenko full). With the one and a half, I can spot my landing but that is harder for me to do with the full,” Hunter said. “I just went out there and did whatever I could.” — Kytra Hunter on her NCAA winning second vault, a Yurchenko full, to The Orlando Sentinel
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