exercise, not food

At a Women’s Artistic Gymnastics testing event today I sas impressed how many of the coaches and judges, most former gymnasts, were fit.

They clearly learned one lesson during their many years of competitive training.

Thomas Bouhail surgeries

Really, really bad news.

… 2012 Olympic medal prospect Thomas Bouhail underwent 15 operations in just six weeks and is now fighting to walk again, two months after a horror fall in training, his brother, Mickael, revealed …’

Bouhail, won a silver medal in the vault at the 2008 Olympics and gold medal at the 2010 World Championships, fractured his left leg after falling off the high bar on Christmas Eve.

Read more: …

It’s not at all certain that Thomas will ever be able to come back to Gymnastics.

Leave messages on his official website.

(via Full Twist)

interesting Tricking vid

Geran Simpson is a non stop ninja. Each frame is a photograph. This was shot in one day from sunrise to sunset. 1000 pictures.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Music
“Burst Open” by VENICE GAS HOUSE TROLLEY

Directed by
JACOB WOLFMAN

George Nissen – “Up in the Air”

Up In The Air: Presented by the Nissen Trampoline Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the first (or one of the first) promotional videos for the Nissen Trampoline Company, illustrates the sport’s humble beginnings.

Acrobatic Sports and Institut National du Sport (INSEP) prepared a copy of this wonderful historic video for the World Acrobatic Society when they inducted Mr. Nissen into their “Gallery of Legends” in 2001.

Trampoline Pundit – In the Beginning …

Watch it on YouTube. (10min)

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via @TrampPundit

Bars – Tweddle adds double double

Seriously hard gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

15.90

She’s been training this dismount a long time. But has she competed it before this weekend?

(via Couch Gymnast)

QCK Invitational, Regina

Back in my old stomping ground, Saskatchewan, this morning I watched Provincial girls compete at the Queen City Kinsmen Invitational.

Stu Cram was there, capturing some nice close-ups, despite the low light.

See more photos on Stu’s Facebook.

Results are being posted on Gym Score Depot.

Danell Leyva wins American Cup

… Danell Leyva roared back from a slow start to win, surging from fourth to first in the final rotation with a thrilling high bar performance. Leyva finished with a score of 90.664, just ahead of Ukraine’s Mykola Kuksenkov.

read more on ESPN

3. Marcel Nguyen
4. Daniel Purvis

photo - Grace Chiu

Watch the Gymnastike interview.

Jordyn Wieber wins American Cup

Wieber 61.032
Raisman 60.832
Iordache 59.332
Moors 56.365
Chelaru 56.1
Hill 55.599
Simpson 54.566
Tunney 52.132

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Vault: 6.5 Amanar Score:16.100 Execution:9.6

A little high. But great vault for Jordyn. Congratulations.

Gabby Douglas looks fantastic, too. … Hello Beijing. Hello Moscow.