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CONGRATS to these gymnasts from my new club club, Gymnastics Adventure, who qualified to Western Canadian Championships 2012, Langley, Vancouver, BC May 4-6, 2012.

GA Coaches: Rick McCharles, Janna Koski

GA Provincial Level 5: Brenna Fonagy, Courtney Biever, Taylor Gaudet, Kori Clark

GA National Open: Breanna Franklin, Kaitlyn Clark

GA National Novice: Mia Dimas

GA Pre-Novice Aspire: Sarah Franklin

GA Pre-Novice Elite: Mackenzie Nestman

GA Chris Baraniuk is Head of WAG Team Saskatchewan delegation.

Our team needs to verify fitness at Sask Provincial Championships, April 20-21st. Staying healthy and happy are the highest priorities. 🙂

related – Tony Retrosi:

… March … My goal is to get the kids through the State Meet and to Regionals and Nationals without injury. We Train Hard. Nearly 100% focus on perfecting routines and consistency. I get pretty paranoid and really try NOT TO take any unnecessary risks in the gym. Even a twisted ankle at this point in the season could be disastrous.

We try very hard to make every practice like a competition. Timed warm up etc. …

PREPARING FOR THE END OF THE SEASON

Danita linked to Cincinnati Gymnastics’ Jacqueline Johnson competing Stalder Shaposhnikova half at the 2006 American Cup.

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Can you recall anyone doing it earlier?

Yao Jinnan is competing it in 2012.

Moustafina has competed it.

The question is, who will it be named after in the Code of Points?

Danita is sure that it must be competed at World Championships or Olympic Games. We’ll see it in London, I’m sure.

Top-ranked Jason Burnett of Toronto, who needed to finish either first or second to clinch Canada’s lone Olympic berth in men’s trampoline, faltered in the final and wound up 10th in an open competition for both youth and senior competitors.

A silver medal winner at the last Olympics in 2008, Burnett will have another chance to book his return ticket to the Games at a second qualification meet at the end of April in Gatineau, Que. …

“Winning was definitely a surprise,” said (Keegan) Soehn. “I came into the final just hoping to make my routine because I was having a bit of trouble in the warm ups but I felt great right from the start and I felt like I knew I was going to do well.” …

In women’s trampoline, Karen Cockburn of Toronto, topped the field and showed she’s on right on track with a more difficult optional routine she hopes will help carry her to a record fourth straight Olympic medal this summer.

Cockburn finished first with a score of 54.775 followed by fellow Torontonians Rosannagh MacLennan and Samantha Smith with 52.970 and 51.355 points respectively.

“I was really happy to do my higher difficulty routine for the first time in the final today,” said Cockburn, who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics and silver at the 2004 and 2008 Games. …

Cockburn and MacLennan have already locked up Canada’s two Olympic spots in women’s trampoline and are fine tuning their routines at competitions at home and abroad in the lead up to the Games July 27 – August 12. …

Gymnastics Alberta

Other Elite Canada Champions:

Denis Vachon – Men’s Double-mini
Lexi Geisbrecht – Women’s Double-mini

Lexi Geisbrecht & Karine Dufour – Women’s Tramp Synchro
Duncan Blais & Liam Doherty – Men’s Tramp Synchro

Emily Smith – Women’s Tumbling
Jon Schwaiger – Men’s Tumbling

More photos by Grace Chiu on Facebook.

According to the coach, if Yao did the new shapo1/2 tomorrow at the Zibo World Cup, then it will be named after her right away instead of waiting for Olympic/World championship. …

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Can anyone confirm that?

She competed it internationally already, I believe.

These days I pretty much link to every video posted by Chris. Thanks for all your time.

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Good luck to all the young ladies competing today.

Beam complex in the Dumke Gymnastics Training Center… — with Nansy Damianova, Mary Beth Lofgren and Hailee Hansen.

via Facebook

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Really good insights into life at Camp:

… we wake up around 6:45 a.m. and head straight for breakfast. Most of the girls grab eggs and coffee before we go back to our cabins and get ready to hit the gym. National team coordinator Martha Karolyi has an unwritten rule: if you’re not 30 minutes early to practice, you’re late. So although practice starts at 8:30, we all get there at 8. …

At 8:30 on the dot, Martha walks out of the office. It’s a signal — we stand up, line up and address her. She gives our assignments for the day, and we start practice. …

read it all – Shawn Johnson takes us inside training camp

I especially like her comparisons of being a rookie in 2004 … vs how she and Alicia treat camp now.

After getting one of new Tumbl Trak Air Floors, @CMemmel is tumbling again. The first double pikes since surgery.

I’m testing one of the new Power Launch Air Floors, our gymnasts inventing new applications.

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It’s light. Easy to move around the gym quickly.

BGtv visits the WAG Training Camp to meet the Potential Squad

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British Gymnastics TV is now on YouTube, as well as the Federation home page. I’ll link to the YouTube versions as they stream faster.