I’m still shocked that FIG approved gymnastics apparatus can fall when just one thing goes wrong?
Why are we still using equipment designed with “single point of failure”? 😦
Vince Smurro was lucky this time.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
BYU water gymnastics pics
The best gymnastics photo shoot since Alphabet Photography.
Brigham Young University’s Dave Broberg (somehow) comes up with the idea of splashing water on the gymnasts to put together their annual poster.
See more photos from that shoot.
Click PLAY or see how it was done on YouTube.
It includes some funny misfires.
Gym Canada Level 4
Gymnastics Canada now accepting applications for Men’s and Women’s artistic, rhythmic & trampoline coaches for the 2012-2013 Level 4 cycle. That’s a 2yr program eligible only to coaches fully certified L3.
L4 Information Package (PDF)
via email from Denise Gauthier
Moors, Sejima to American Cup
Victoria Moors of Canada and Ryuzo Sejima of Japan will compete in the AT&T American Cup, replacing Germany’s Nadine Jarosch and Philipp Boy, respectively. Scheduled for March 3 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden …
Oklahoma #1 RQS
Florida is #1 on the official Troester rankings this week.
But if you use the Regional Qualifying Score used to determine who competes where in the NCAA “playoffs“, it’s a different story.
Balance Beam Situation explains:
… RQS won’t officially come into play until next week …
For the uninitiated, RQS is calculated by taking a team’s top 6 scores (at least 3 of which must be away), dropping the highest score, and averaging the remaining 5. Anyone who tells you it’s complicated is lying. It took 27 words.
RQS Rankings for February 20th, 2012 (unofficial)
1. Oklahoma – 196.995
2. Florida – 196.925
3. UCLA – 196.725
4. Georgia – 196.660
5. Utah – 196.555
6. Arkansas – 196.545
7. Alabama – 196.525
8. Oregon State – 196.180
9. Nebraska – 196.095
10. Penn State – 195.950
11. LSU – 195.935
12. Ohio State – 195.735
13. Stanford – 195.580
14. Missouri – 195.485
15. Auburn – 195.245
Click through for nuanced analysis of where teams stand looking forward to the post-season.
… Most teams have just three or four regular season meets left. It’s time to start getting those postseason lineups out onto the floor this week and next week …
another quintuple turn on Beam
You’ve seen Yui Fujii’s amazing turns on Beam. (VIDEO)
Here’s a Canadian gymnast Ella Douglas doing 5. Posted by Lawson Hamer from Futures.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
lit snowboarder
I needed a little beauty this morning and this certainly fit the bill…a snowboarder covered in LED lights shreds in the dark.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
… could we do that with gymnasts?
gymnastics – all F and G skills
XtremeTkatchev on Feb 13, 2012
An update of my previous code of points video.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
via @StickItMedia
Marta Karolyi not retiring
… Martha says she will continue in her role as long as USA Gymnastics wants her. …
As she’s hinted recently.
That quote from USA Today:
… For the past 13 years, aspiring Olympic gymnasts from all over the USA have trained at this remote ranch 50 miles north of Houston. It’s part of a semi-centralized training system implemented by Bela in 1999 and carried out by Martha, 69, in her role as women’s national team coordinator since 2001. …
Results have been good, overall, during Marta’s reign.
Some of her methods I thought idiotic back in 2002. But she’s mellowed and improved a great deal, from everything I’ve seen.
I’d love to see what would change under her successor. Valeri, I assume.
But if Marta wants to stay (after all) I’d expect 4 more years of the same. Strict. Disciplined. Smart. … But with a higher injury rate than many people will like.
via @gymnewstics
Nia Dennis wins Buckeye Classic
David Holcomb:
The Buckeye Classic was a huge success in every way. Over 2200 gymnasts from across the Eastern USA and Canada made for three days of gymnastics heaven.
… NIA WON THE MEET and is going to compete in Madison Square Garden on March 2, in New York City in the Nastia Liukin Supergirl Cup …
Nia scored 38.775 in the all-around. I think this is the all-time highest all-around score ever achieved by a Buckeye gymnast. …
more Buckeye photos on Facebook
For a full list of Supergirl qualifiers, click over to Gymnastike. USAG posted profiles on some of the girls.
Grace Williams of Twistars will attempt to defend the title she won last year and Gymnastike will be on-site for all the action.
Once again, that meet might well be more interesting and entertaining than the A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N Cup itself.
