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The latest upload by iLITTER. A very cool edit. Nastia really should hire Chris as her videographer.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Enjoy that. It sounds like Nastia won’t be competing any apparatus at WOGA next weekend, after all. … Correct me if I’m mistaken.

That video was inspired by this edit for The Rock.

There’s plenty of women’s Collegiate commentary online this year. But my favourite has been the new Balance Beam Situation blog:

LIVE Friday, Feb. 10th:

… Over in Florida, Marissa King got a 9.725 on vault, so there’s no point to continue living. Alaina Johnson goes 9.950, so they’ll manage to get along somehow…They end up dropping King’s score and counting a 9.800 from Spicer. …

… Okay, we have to talk about Ashanee Dickerson going into the 9.9s on bars for the second time in a row at home…

… AH! Hunter goes 9.975 (and breaks 9.9 on all three of her events)- so Florida scores 49.625 on floor and ends with a new season record of 197.850.

LSU 196.85 at Florida 197.85 …

Some say scores were too high.

In the news, Brianna Brown of CGA has verballed to Georgia. This is not a surprise given the discussion a while back about Jay getting himself on board the CGA train in a big old way. Since Whitcomb, Jetter, and Williams were already spoken for, it was assumed he would be courting Brown and Hundley. Priessman is in a different boat since elite success in the next quad may alter her NCAA trajectory. …

Georgia records a strong 49.275 on vault, led by Ding’s 9.900. This is the pace they need to go over 197 this week (which should be the goal), but they will hope to go higher on bars, where they have a little more 9.9 potential. …

Ack – Shayla has another issue on bars for Georgia (it’s always something), meaning they will count Tanella’s 9.750 – opening the door for Arkansas who scored 49.300 on vault. Kat Ding saves the day, so Georgia scores a respectable 49.175 and maintain the lead over Arkansas by .250. …

Arkansas 195.875 at Georgia 196.825

Check out Balance Beam Situation. I do wish it had more photos and videos.

For scores & links, not funny commentary, go to College Gymnastics Fans.

I was worried for Oregon State this season. But they rocked a 197.4 this weekend.

Carol-Angela Orchard coached dozens of international gymnasts including Worlds Beam Bronze medalist Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs and Peng Peng Lee.

CA left Canada for the U.K. after the 2008 Olympics and married Eddie Van Hoof, British Men’s Technical Director. Currently she’s GBR Women’s National Coach – Beam & Artistic Preparation.

She’s available for clinics. Click PLAY or watch a short clip on BG TV.

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

I’m always keen to see how Beam coaches vary the height of the apparatus.

2012 WOGA Classic with host John Macready!

Feb 18-19, 2012

Buy Tickets NOW online at www.woga.net

I’ve got a feeling Rebecca Bross is going to look GREAT. 🙂

Seattle based Blythe Lawrence:

Shannon … was in Seattle today to promote next month’s Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships …

… About that double-twisting Yurchenko…Miller, who most often competed a half-twisting Yurchenko or 1.5 twist on vault, remembers doing a DTY at “one competition…I’m not sure that it was very pretty.” (The meet was a U.S. Classic, she thinks, but she’s not entirely sure.) For gymnastics fans, Miller’s DTY is something of a unicorn — a few people have sworn they’ve seen one, but it’s very rare.

Vault utterly terrified her. Miller referred to her “My coach called me knob knees, and I had little toothpick legs, that didn’t generate much power on vault,” she said. As an event, vault was her “nemesis,” she said.

She’s “not a big fan” of the current code of points. “I hope that we get back to more artistry in the sport so that there’s a better balance between the beauty of gymnastics and the difficulty of the skills,” she said. …

Read more on Examiner.

It links to the original interview on Seattle Times.

Photo via USA Gymnastics on Facebook.

UCLA’s Dana McDonald ruptured her Achilles tendon at the IGI/Chicago Style NCAA Invitational.

She was doing a demo Floor routine.

Best wishes for a recovery getting that Achilles better than new, Dana.

… I’ve not yet seen any summary of season ending injuries out of the NCAA so far this year. Is this the first Achilles?

Unofficial.

March 16-18th Pac Rim, Seattle, USA:

WAG: Jr.: Lou Nina, Wang Wei, Mei Jie; Sr.: Tan Sixin, Shang Chunsong, Luo Peiru, Jiang Tong
MAG: Jr.: Wu Guanhua, Wang Peng, Liu Rongbing; Sr.: Cheng Ran, Xu Kangyi, Xiao Ruoteng

Mar 22-25 Cottbus Cup, Germany

WAG: Cheng Fei, He Kexin, Wu Liufang, Zeng Siqi
MAG: Chen Yibing, Xiao Qin, Zhou Shixiong, Luo Xuan

How about that?

Our Olympic Bars champion is yet again representing her nation. We feared she’d seen her last assignment after missing at Tokyo Worlds.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She and Huang Qiushuang both fell (VIDEO) at Worlds the year prior. 😦

I don’t see any way China would bring He Kexin to the London Olympics — unless they decide to forfeit a chance for Team medal in exchange for more apparatus medals. … Possible, but unlikely.

Those rumoured assignments come from Chinese Gymnastics Blog.

Houston National Invitational, Doha and Zibo are posted, as well. All tentative.

UPDATE: Read Brigid’s assessment (with videos) of China’s strongest Olympic Team contenders:

Couch Gymnast – China Moves Towards Olympics

… she likes Sui Lu and Yao Jinnan.

Couch Gymnast has news on who China will send to upcoming events, including a list for Pacific Rim that was translated from a Chinese blog.

Most exciting is the return of China’s best ever Vault / Floor competitor, Cheng Fei:

… Zibo World Cup, the latest in the official FIG World Cup series is being contested in April in China. The FIG has published the list of entries … the most exciting to see is Cheng Fei, who has been out of action for far too long. She was expected to compete at the Universiade last year, but had to pull out due to a last-minute injury. Now early in this year, with her competing at Cottbus and Zibo we might get a chance to see if she is a viable Olympic team member. Fingers crossed …

read more – Cheng Fei back for Zibo Cup (and Cottbus!)

Welsh Rugby star Shane Williams was always considered too small for the sport. Turns out he did gymnastics as a child. No wonder he’s so agile. 🙂

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(via Gymnation Wales on Facebook)

An interesting comparison of athletes by Wayne Goldsmith.

GALTSs = Great on Attitude – Low on Talent

GAHTs = Great on Attitude – High on Talent

details on Sport Coaching Brain