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Canadian Power Tumbler Emily Smith on Facebook:

I signed a Cirque contract this week 🙂 I will be performing in the show “Chemins Invisibles” from mid-may through September in Quebec. Don’t worry I’ll still be nailing Nationals and coming back to get ready for World Games 2013! PUMPED:

I recall Canadian Olympian Grant Golding coming back after 3 months training with Cirque du Soleil. He looked better, if anything, for the time away from his sport.

Grace Chiu GraceClick on Facebook:

Vali Stan (coach) at Pacific Rim with the NEW Canadian team.

That’s gymnastics legend Kate Richardson, medical with the team.

Ellie Black made a big splash at Gymnix.

I’ve never seen anything close to this incredible tumbling line.

2 1/2 twist step-out to 3/1 twist.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She’s from Alta Gymnastics Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, coached by Keiji Yamanaka.

Thank Dave Kikuchi for the video.

Arriving at a new gym, the very FIRST thing I did was put a handstand complex into the warm-up.

I’d say this is the most valuable 4-6min during our workout.

Tumbling Drills has a nice instructional on how to introduce wall handstand to beginners.

My go to source for physical preparation is Gymnastic Bodies. Coach Sommer literally wrote the book on the topic:

Wall handstands are your most valuable tool for learning a correct handstand. I recommend staying with them for a substantial period of time. …

To transition from wall handstands to free standing handstands, try the following drill: Perform a wall handstand with stomach to the wall. Place your wrists approximately 4-6? from the base of the wall. Keep one foot on the wall while pulling the other foot off the wall and extending that leg directly over your hips. At this time, your wrists, shoulders, hips and leg that is off the wall should be in one vertical line. Once you feel that you have achieved a strong stable position, slowly pull your supporting foot off the wall. When you lose your balance, simply catch yourself by replacing the foot on the wall and then continue on with the drill. …

Transitioning From Wall HS to Freestanding HS

Free of the wall, my favourite drill is 1) Handstand, 2) look at the toes, 3) slow pike down to stand.

Having the head “buried” is a good mistake, for 99% of the gymnasts I coach.

Advanced kids start on Floor Bar. Best practice is to dedicate time to this station every workout.

Gymnastics Adventure, Regina

Leave a comment if you are a wall handstand fanatic.

Skip this video. Unless you are impressed by incredibly fit women free climbing near impossible routes.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

Daniel Woods won the Men’s. Puccio has won every ABS Nationals comp since 2006 with the exception of 2009, when Alex Johnson won. Woods has won five of the last seven Nationals.

Woods, Puccio Take Gold at ABS Nationals

(via Hiking in Finland)

This is the future. Get ready.

The video you are about to see contains no camera tricks or CGI of any kind. This skateboard is really, truly, controlled with your brain. …

http://www.cnet.com/av/video/embed/player.swf

… they wowed CES with their Board of Awesomeness, a Microsoft Kinect-powered skateboard that the rider controls with various gestures. They parlayed that into a shopping cart that can follow you around a grocery store, scan your groceries, and possibly even check you out automatically.

read more – CNET – Board of Imagination: A mind-controlled skateboard. Seriously

Stories like this are a BIG reason I love the Olympics.

Leaving her mark in history is 22 year-old gymnast Lim Heem Wei who is the first Singaporean gymnast to qualify for the Olympic games.

The 15 year gymnastics veteran triumphed against all the odds and clinched one of the 37 spots available for grabs at the Olympics games test event held in London. …

Singapore Sports

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(via Singapore Gymnastics)

At extreme trampoline “add on”.

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That was the continuation from Part 1 (VIDEO), if you missed it.

“Hero Move”. … What a scary concept.

Jason competes Pacific Rim this weekend. He’s trying another new HUGE routine. Wish him luck.

(via flipping out tnt)

All 24 podium routines for Team USA in Seattle are now posted on the USAgymnasticsorg YouTube channel.

Our World Champion stretching out.

Blythe has detailed notes from podium training, MAG and WAG.

In Montreal many raved that Maria is the next great Russian gymnast. The “complete package”, says Blythe.

… With 14 year old Evgeniya Shelgunova, Bondareva is leading the current charge of Russian juniors. She has been selected for the Jesolo Cup later this month, and (assuming she is age eligible) looks likely to be on the roster for the upcoming Junior Europeans in Brussels. …

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – 12 year old Maria Bondareva wins International Gymnix Junior

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.

Maria hails from Fryazino in Moscow Oblast, where she is trained by U Pursheva.