P.A. AERIALS Invitational

Big shout out to everyone in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan who hosted our team at the LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! Invitational and Trials for Westerns.

You did a super job.

The theme was Hollywood, right down to the red carpet and Awards Podium.

Mariah finished 1st AA in her age division

I’ll be coming back up to P.A. with our Team for their year end FUN competition, the 2012 WAG TEAM CUP May 12th, 2012.

results

Floor choreography of the DAY

Click PLAY or watch it on Izismile – Hilariously Impressive: Guy Enters Women’s Gymnastics Competition

http://izismile.com/video/player2/player2.swf

Liu Xuan 1-arm giant

Couch Gymnast:

… She is the only gymnast ever to perform a one-arm giant swing. This is very common in the men’s high bar however it is not considered appropriate for women, so in order to discourage its performance the skill is valued with only a “C” difficulty. Liu last competed the skill in 1996. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (1995)

Lloimincia Hall – SEC Floor Champ

OK. I like over-the-top College routines as much as anybody. But this is too much for me. 🙂

LSU freshman Lloimincia Hall was crowned 2012 SEC Floor Exercise Champion with a 9.925. She also helped the Tigers to a 4th place finish in the team competition with a 196.425

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MTYyNjI0MDc5?related=1

Watch more video of 2012 SEC Championships on gymnastike.org

Balance Beam Situation dedicated an entire post to that one routine.

who’s NOT honouring me now?

The About.com 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards (Gymnastics) have concluded counting 35,000+ votes.

Gymnastike earned the top spot for Best Gym Website, for the second year in a row.

This site was a distant 3rd place.

That didn’t surprise. But this did:

Well-known brand Ten.0 took the prize as best grip, with 59 percent.

The Runners-Up:

Reisport: 24%

US Glove: 5%

Bailie: 5%

English Bulldog: 4%

Are Ten.0 really that popular? I tell all girls to buy Reisport.