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Christine Lee scored 57.800 AA (PDF) competing only a full twisting Yurchenko. She’s still being careful after a fluke dislocated patella while training double twisting Yurchenko.

Normally she does up to 10 DTYs every practice.

I’m certain she’s planning to upgrade that Vault before London.

Miss Val was there in Seattle with Christine’s parents, proud of her prize UCLA recruit.

At Pacific Rim Gabby was inconsistent training her Amanar Vault.

Photo via Examiner on Facebook.

Here’s another from Grace:

Note that Gabby still got credit for Amanar – 6.5 start. (PDF)

Martha suggested that Gabrielle Douglas’s poor performance was due to her trying a bit too much of her difficulty all at one time. She was “overpressured” Martha said, first by having done so well in New York two weeks ago and then being expected to do it all again here, and Douglas is a gymnast who needs to feel “absolutely secure” in her routines to do them very well.

Martha suggests that dramatic changes (apparently Liang Chow wanted to introduce even more difficulty into her bar routine, giving her a 6.9 D-score, but that was seen as a little too much, so some of the difficulty was taken out at the last minute) suddenly don’t work with Douglas, and that Chow may still be getting to know his athlete and what works for her.

Examiner – Pac Rims: The Martha Karolyi perspective

George reminds that Gabby trained about 10yrs at Excalibur, only about a year at Chows.

She’s a super talent that both clubs have done a terrific job in developing.

JOHN CRUMLISH posted a feature to celebrate – Hard Work, Not Luck, Yields More Irish Success.

Kieran Behan will be competing with a full MAG team at 2012 European Championships in preparation for the London Olympics.

Click PLAY or watch Kieran’s possible new skill on YouTube.

Def on Horizontal Bar + 1/1 twist. Wow.

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We have school groups in our Gymnastics Club every day. For recreational gymnastics. The number of overweight and obese children is shocking.

Kottke linked to an important Daily Beast article:

Ten years after his seminal book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser reflects on how little has changed in the production, safety, and consumption in America—but why he’s still hopeful.

Every day about 65 million people eat at a McDonald’s restaurant somewhere in the world, more than ever before. The annual revenues of America’s fast-food industry, adjusted for inflation, have risen by about 20 percent since 2001. …

About two thirds of the adults in the United States are obese or overweight. The obesity rate among preschoolers has doubled in the past 30 years. The rate among children aged 6 to 11 has tripled. And by some odd coincidence, the annual cost of the nation’s obesity epidemic — about $168 billion, as calculated by researchers at Emory University — is the same as the amount of money Americans spent on fast food in 2011. …

Still a Fast-Food Nation: Eric Schlosser Reflects on 10 Years Later

If you’ve never read Fast Food Nation, the Kindle edition is only $3.99.

It’s not easy being an obese child, as 3yr-old Leslie Downes found out in 1935.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Kottke)

Certainly school kids need to exercise more. Eat less. But how’s that going to happen?

I’m not optimistic for the future. 😦

A follow up to yesterday’s handstand post. Many more drills for “line” to consider adding to your program.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (8min)

From Gymnastics Planet.

Akash will be competing it this weekend. Very cool.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I was sorry to see that Marcel Nguyen did not compete it at American Cup.

(via Stick It Media)

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The Gators posted a 197.90, which also stands as the fourth-highest in school history, and the Utes finished with a 196.475.

Florida’s score is second only this season to the 198.05 turned in by UCLA on Feb. 26. …

No. 1 Florida Gymnastics uses nation’s second-highest total to defeat No. 7 Utah

Should I predict Florida will win NCAA Championships?

I did that Feb. 2nd, 2011. And was wrong.

Inconsistent Beam plagued the Gators last season. They’ve been much more stable in 2012.

… “We are out of time,” a clearly frustrated Utah coach Greg Marsden said. “We’ve squandered every opportunity on the road this year.”

Now the Utes, who finished the regular season on a two-meet loss for the first time in the program’s history, have less than a week to figure out their faults before hosting the Pac-12 Championships on Saturday. …

Utes get chomped by Gators

RESULTS AFTER SUBDIVISION 1: Pacific Rim Women’s Team/AA

1) CAN 219.000;
2) JPN 212.550;
3) RUS 210.500.

Sr. AA:
1. Lee 57.800;
2. Vaculik 55.100;
3. Moors 54.850.

Jr. AA:
1. Yumoto 53.600;
2. Kharenkova 52.950;
3. Baturina

USA competing flight 2.

Blythe: Six things we learned at Pac Rims:

• There’s depth in Russia.
• Hong Kong’s Hiu Ying Angel Wong impressed
• Christine Peng Peng Lee is incredible
• Colombia is a rising team
• cool skills from Japan
• perhaps the best Canadian WAG team ever

Details on Examiner.com Six things we learned at Pac Rims (women’s subdivision I)

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.