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Epke Zonderland (NED) – 2012

Very cool.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Not 5/4 Diamidov – 3/4 Healy. Thanks yourdacedude2008.

The 2004 Olympic Beam Champion, Catalina Ponor, won Beam in Ghent (15.025)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She’s fascinating. 🙂

Interview with Bea Gheorghisor:

…on whether she was happy with what she achieved in Ghent:

“No. Well for me this was more like a friendly meet. Nonetheless I am not satisfied…” …

… She also mentioned that she has other things that she wants to add to her BB routine to make it more difficult for the Olympics more difficult compared to what she showed both in Ghent and in Euros. …

… …on why are some people surprised that she might be a contender for the beam medals in London

“You know, not many people believed in my comeback” she said… she also added that she felt like at first no one had faith, except for herself and her mother… not even the coaches

read more on Couch Gymnast

Actually, she’s wondering about the deductions on that finals routine, a bit surprised that judges only gave her pike instead of layout on the two foot.

New twitter account = @CPonor

by Director Steve Harries

… Nathan Bailey, Kat Driscoll, Bryony Page, Emma Smith and Steven Williams’s bodies were broken up into fragmented forms and motions by a bank of six mirrors. …

http://www.nowness.com/media/embedvideo?itemid=1908&issueid=1903

Gymnast: In Motion on Nowness.com.

(via British Gymnastics on Facebook)

Cool.

Dr. Jeni McNeal is researching sport applications of thermal imaging technology. AKA thermography.

… An exercise science professor at Eastern Washington University, McNeal is working on new ways to detect injuries in athletes, and to help them recover from the rigorous training …

… in research she chronicled in a new paper this year, McNeal and a colleague from the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs used thermal imaging to see weak spots that naked eyes and X-rays could never detect.

“It’s something that’s been used in trying to early-detect breast cancer,” McNeal says. …

… Of course, there’s still more work to be done. So far, McNeal’s work has been mostly qualitative. What she needs now, she says, are quantitative surveys of injuries — showing, say, what a sprained ankle looks like in the thermal camera on Day One, Day Two, Day Three — so that they can better track and diagnose injuries as they happen. …

read more – We Can See Injuries Before They Happen

Jeni, from Artistic Gymnastics, works with the American National Diving Team. Amongst others.

“No effects… Just parallel bars in the woods. Thanks IGC and Dave Black!”

larger original on Instagram

Thanks Dana.

I’m extremely happy with my MacBook Air.

But Johnny Ives and crew are trying to tempt me into the new $2,229+ Pro.

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… I’ll likely stick with the $1000 Air next time around. 😦

One of my friends (Tenaya West) made this as a good luck video before our national championships. …

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Josh is going to San Jose. Congrats.

Seems more African Americans had big time success at Visa Championships than ever before in history.

Am I right on that?

Anyone seen statistics?

Ekaterina Pirozhkova:

… we would like to draw your kind attention to a series of methodic video manuals on rhythmic gymnastics for coaches-beginners and young sportsmen.

The manuals (have) been produced and published by Progress LLC in cooperation with Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health (Saint Petersburg, Russia) under the supervision of FIG Rhythmic TC.

Here’s a promo clip of the “Flexibility Development” video.

Click PLAY or watch it here.

http://progress-video.ru/plugins/content/jw_allvideos/includes/js/mediaplayer/player.swf

That 53min edit can be downloaded for $5 or watched once for $2.

There are more videos:

– Balance “Ring with Help”
– Strength Development
– Development of quickness, coordination and agility, balance functions and elasticity
– Endurance Development
– Choreography
– Ribbon
– Ball
– Rope
– Hoop
– Clubs

Information in a number of languages available on progress-video.ru

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 15.800

Still the most powerful tumbler in the world, I’d say.

Marta … on whether Aly Raisman has proved herself:

… “[Laughs] Yes, she always wants to prove herself to me! She looks in my eyes before competition and I just nod: ‘Everything is perfect, Aly.’ I really love to have this type of gymnast. She’d give her heart to be good.”

On elegance vs. consistency:

“We take them as we are. Not every single gymnast in the world is a ballerina.” …

Examiner

I recall Bela answering that question long ago about Mary Lou Retton:

She’s a flyer, not a flower.

All those one foot landings and twisting take-offs.

Crazy.

Click PLAY or watch Team Genetrics on Vimeo.

Team Genetrics is hosting Genetrics Gathering – the UK’s largest international tricking gathering – Aug 17-20 in the U.K.

Thanks to Steve Hough of everythingacrobatic.co.uk for the link.