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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.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… 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. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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.

Over-rotated triple twist.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She plans to be back for Olympic Trials. But will need medical clearance, of course.

Chris quickly put together a tribute to the 2012 Visa Champion. Nice work.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Aunt Joyce questions whether Jordyn and Team USA are peaking too early, as they have in the past.

I don’t think so. Marta has changed. And the sport has changed.

Marta:

“I think Jordyn is doing well. She has her training plan and her training plan is to get in her best shape by the Trials. And that’s exactly the training plan I suggested to all the coaches. And the coaches, some of them want to push it and get ready earlier, but my suggestion was 90 percent at Championships, 100 percent at Trials.”

Examiner – A few Martha Karolyi-isms following the U.S. Championships

You must peak for trials if you want to make the Olympic Team.