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One valid complaint about women’s Collegiate gymnastics in the States is that routines tend to be (boringly) safe. Aside from Floor choreography, there’s not much originality, especially on Vault. I’ve seen meets with 12 Yurchenko 1/1s.

But College Gymnastics Board has a good thread finding the exceptions — Most Difficult Routines This Season

I saw these two cool vaults linked from there:

Click PLAY or watch Amber See of Illinois on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Deanna Graham from Arizona on YouTube.

Now in it’s 17th year, GymRep is one of the most popular Cheer and Artistic Camps in North America. It’s bilingual: French 1st and English 2nd. 🙂

They have 1500 camp spots available — but weeks 1 and 2 are already full for WAG.

NEW for 2012 are 70 spots for boys week 1.

GymRep.com

Friday, February 3 – #1 Utah vs. #4 Georgia is the Marsden Mustache Meet – The first 4,000 fans will receive a Marsden Mustache: “Fear the Stache!”

LOVE IT.

NCAA Gymnastics is my favourite league for the passion.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Sooners are ranked 5th so far this season.

Hard copy cover revealed today by Dominique Moceanu. Photo by the famed Annie Leibovitz.

Amazon $16.32

Release date now June 12, 2012.

Casey Jo left Capital Gymnastics (and her boyfriend) to accept a coaching position at Western Michigan. So far, so good. Follow her blog.

Training hasn’t suffered. 🙂

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That’s posted on her Facebook Fan page, or go to the video directly if you’d like to comment. See more videos on her YouTube channel.

related – Gymnastike interview after her team’s 2nd highest score ever.

(via Inner Monoblog and Couch Gymnast)

30 January 2012 – by Total Season Average

1. Utah – 196.992
2. Arkansas – 196.756
3. Florida – 196.563
4. Georgia – 196.519
5. Oklahoma – 196.444
6. Alabama – 196.308
7. UCLA – 196.231
8. Oregon State – 196.05
9. Nebraska – 195.9
10. Penn State – 195.869
11. Ohio State – 195.519
12. Stanford – 195.117

see more NCAA team rankings

the gymnastics project

Consider the Utes resident / non-resident summer gymnastics camp June 20-23, 2012.

Florida’s Alaina Johnson has the highest Total Season Average AA after week 4

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

via Craig Smith on Facebook

Gymnastike:

… Simone Biles easily won the level 10/open all around title Friday at the Alamo Classic and debuted a yurchenko 2.5 twist in a meet held on concrete!

It’s one thing to compete this vault on podium, but it’s even more difficult to throw it on a solid surface. Biles played it safe with a double on her first vault and even bounced out of it, then she threw the 2.5 with ease. According to the meet director. “it was beautiful – she could’ve done a triple!” …

I can’t find that competition vault online.

Click PLAY or watch her in training 2011 on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Double Arabian, full out on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Double Lay, Full Out on YouTube.

… I think she just might have some TALENT. 🙂

Triple Twist Gym Blog compiled a list of those … moments.

Here’s a good one. Rhythmic Gymnastics

Oxana Skaldina … finished 3rd in the All-Around in Barcelona. She is remembered to have been in tears minutes after her last routine and famously refused to congratulate or acknowledge Carolina Pascual on her silver-medal victory, an event that would become legendary. She is currently a coach in Moscow, Russia. Her daughter, Daria Svatkovskaya, is also a rhythmic gymnast.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

see the rest of the awkwardness on Triple Twist Gym Blog