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UCLA had their second Achilles rupture of the season.
Dana McDonald 2012
Lichelle Wong 2012Vanessa Zamarripa in 2011
… who else?
They must average one / year. 😦
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I actually agree with Miss Val. Achilles seems to be near unpreventable for powerful, older gymnasts. College girls are more at risk than Elite, I’d say.
One bit of good news … Sydney Sawa is in great shape and hopes to be back in 2 weeks.
(via Balance Beam Situation)
As a big fan of DaVanche (Ron) Galimore, the gymnast, back in the day, I was happy to see this retrospective feature appear, posted by one of his former teams:
Iowa State gymnast Ron Galimore took his sport by storm en route to becoming one of the greatest gymnasts of all-time. The Cyclone also blazed a trail to where no African-American had gone before after coming to the Iowa State campus in the fall of 1980. …
Ed Gagnier was Galimore’s coach at Iowa State. During the three years Gagnier coached Ron, he viewed him as the most explosive gymnast he had ever seen or had the opportunity to coach.
“Ron was a fit gymnast,” Gagnier said. “For starters, he had the muscular structure that no one else did, the unique ability to be able to explode in his performances. He seemed to be ahead of everybody else. He was so spectacular and could achieve such great height in his moves. It made him stand out.”
While at Iowa State, Galimore enjoyed unprecedented success. Perhaps his most notable achievement was scoring a perfect 10 on the vault at the 1981 NCAA Championships. This feat marked the first time in NCAA history any athlete had reached the perfect plateau. Galimore did it in his final collegiate vault, which made it more remarkable. …
Bruce Davis:
Among my favorite memories of Ron were his sky high double backs performed on crude mats in 90 degree heat at Miami Central HS during JO training sessions. He made the other black kids who were in the gym playing basketball, eyes pop, when he performed his floor exercise routine.
Ron was also an expert on trampoline. I remember him bouncing at my private gym with 20’ high ceiling beams. He would go up and catch the steel beam with his hands and hang and attract my attention by kicking and laughing. Pretty soon he had worked out a ten bounce routine after each beam grab executing a different trick every time he returned to the trampoline. …
The United State’s First African-American Male Gymnastics Olympian
Today Ron is Chief Operating Officer for USAG.
Ivan Zubkevych is a circus acrobat most recently performing in Germany and Switzerland.
He’s got some planche variations I’ve never seen before.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (profanity warning)
I’ve always considered Paul O’Neill the strongest planche man I’ve ever seen. But Ivan is up there with the best.
Who else could contend for the greatest planche all-time?
(Thanks Mia)
The Telegraph has a series of photos featuring the faces of divers, mid-flight.
Divers’ faces during the FINA Diving World Cup at the London 2012 Aquatics Centre
At the same time you can check form and body position, not nearly as good as it looks at normal speed.
Thanks Steve Long.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Nzk2NjEwNjk3?related=1
Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org
This week’s gymnastics workout video features the team who won seven gold medals at last year’s JO Nationals, Brown’s Gymnastics of Las Vegas.
Just a few days after this workout was filmed, senior Randii Wyrick achieved her goal of qualifying to the 2012 Nastia Liukin Cup with an amazing all around score of 38.60. Wyrick is the reigning JO National Champion on vault and has signed to compete for LSU next season. Elizabeth Gangale is the reigning JO National All Around and Vault champion for the junior B division, making incredible strides to go from last to first place at Nationals in one year!
… coach Terry Gray.
The difference between making history … and being history.
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Thanks Brett.
Ceiling Stand = using banister for support, raise legs into the air and place both feet on the ceiling. Lock into position, keeping body vertical.
That’s just one of the classic moves on House Gymnastics. 🙂
(via Rec Gymnastics)
I hadn’t realized that a Gymnastics team had started this awareness campaign. Nice.
All about the Power of Pink!
From humble beginnings as one meet in Tuscaloosa in 2005 to a part of our culture in almost every sport in 2012.
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http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MzIzNjA3Mjk5?related=1
Watch more video of Alabama vs Arkansas 2012 The Power of Pink Meet on gymnastike.org
Colin Christ:
After winning PH both days at 2012 Winter Cup we decided to add more difficulty. In this routine he added the side travel (D) in place of a B travel.
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Note former Head Coach Barry Weiner in the background. Now retired, he still comes in to the gym as a volunteer.
Two time Russian Olympic gymnastics champion, Maria Filatova, now age 50, is battling to regain her official Russian passport/citizenship status, so she can travel outside of the United States and return to her home town and home country. …
She currently lives and owns a gym in Rochester, New York and has applied unsuccessfully for a new Russian passport a number of times. Her application has always been rejected with the stated reason being “lack of merit.” There are many things that one might say about Maria Filatova, but none of them could ever involve her displaying a lack of merit. …
Leave a comment on that post if you have any special insight into the Russian passport process.
Maria Filatova … (born July 19, 1961, Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Siberia) is a retired Soviet gymnast who competed at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics.
… She was one of the first female gymnasts to successfully compete a double back somersault on floor in 1975. …
In fact, a new profile by Elizabeth Booth and Vladimir Zaglada credits Maria as one of the greatest innovators all-time, though many of these firsts were seen only in the former Soviet Union.
Maria Filatova’s innovations:
Vault Tsukuhara with full twist (1976 USSR Nationals EF)
Uneven Bars From giant circle, cross hands half turn into straddle
forward somersault to hang on high barBeam Flic-flac layout/two layouts in a row
Beam dismount Flic-flac x 2 (2 feet) – double twist/double back/double pike
Floor Round off-flic flac – double back/double pike/full-in back out (the first on the Soviet team)
… Many people believe that Maria merited all around gold at her final competition, the 1981 World Championships. Having ‘set the table’ for the Soviet team, her qualification scores did not give her the same bonus as her rivals. I prefer, though, to think of Filatova the way she is described in the Russian Gymnastics Hall of Fame : ‘the strongest gymnast of the 1970s’. …
read more on Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – Maria Filatova: Russian Sparrow Made in the USSR
Hers is a fascinating story. A tiny girl from remote Siberia joining the ranks of Tourischeva, Kim, Saadi and Korbut.
Click PLAY or watch her Floor routine 1980 on YouTube.
