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The official early period for signing a National Letter of Intent for Gymnastics started on November 9th and will run through the 16th. It’s an exciting day for athletes around the world to “make it official” with their college of choice. These signings, in addition to another set in the spring, will comprise the incoming class of 2012-2013.

Below is a comprehensive list of the female gymnasts who have signed NLI’s for women’s gymnastics thus far. …

NCAA Women’s Gymnastics NLI Signing Week for the Class of 2012!

That link to videos of many of the new recruits.

Here are the IGI girls in this draft.

When the list of individual gymnasts qualified to the 2012 Olympics was published by the FIG the inclusion of Krisztian Berki came as a surprise to many. The Hungarian won the gold medal on pommel horse in Tokyo. However, the FIG qualification rules state that all event final medallists are qualified to the Olympics provided their federation does not qualify a full team to the Olympics and they

a. participate in three apparatus (two for WAG) during qualification in Tokyo

b. reach “the limit of 85% of the average score all participants in the best 2 additional apparatus” …

The whole point of this change to Olympic qualifying was to ensure that potential gold medalists like Berki DID qualify. Yet the unnecessary complication of points a. and b. seemed to eliminate him.

… “He has qualified correctly according to the rules. We did the mathematics 100 times, and he just made it barely.“

Those quotes from THE ALL AROUND.

… I’m hoping it’s not the same mathematician who calculated the World Cup AA prize money. 🙂

related – Shergymrag – How to make the World Cup relevant.

Blythe heard that the 4 hosts next year (American Cup, Glasgow World Cup, Stuttgart and Tokyo World Cup) must each come up with 25,000 Euro themselves. That solves the problem, from the FIG point of view.

Just launched.

GYMmomentum.com

Gym Momentum is …

A place to pick up a drill
A place to share a drill
A place to share a video of a new skill
A place to tell a funny story
A place to share a review/ report on a competition or training camp

check it out – WELCOME – Today is the official unveiling of Gym Momentum.

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Tony Retrosi is the head coach and owner of Atlantic Gymnastics. He is a popular lecturer at State, Regional, and National Congresses, and also a guest clinician at training camps nationwide. In 2010, Tony was celebrated as USA Gymnastics’ Educator of the Year.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks JBS.

Meh. Trick photography. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Anis Cheurfa on YouTube.

His former Guinness World Record was 18 corkscrews in 1 minute…Imagine what he could do now…

Thanks Brian Kung.

Good news.

Kellogg Company of Battle Creek, Mich., and USA Gymnastics today announced the company’s official sponsorship of gymnastics’ national governing body.

As part of a three-year partnership, and its continuing commitment to the U.S. Olympic organization, Kellogg Company will become the title sponsor of both the 2012 Kellogg’s® Tour of Gymnastics Champions, a 40-city national tour featuring Team USA’s top performing gymnasts following the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and the 2012 Kellogg’s® Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, which will take place March 16-18, 2012, in Everett, Wash. …

USAG

Recall that Kellogg’s stole Michael Phelps away from Wheaties … and then dropped him for smoking dope.

Gymnasts should be a little safer investment. 🙂

related – Nastia on Wheaties (2008)

From last week’s international Junior meet in Coombs, France.

Victoria MOORS CAN 56.500 … 5.70 start on FX, DTY
Sabrina GILL CAN 54.650
Doriane THOBIE POLE France INSEP (France) 53.850
Kaitlyn HOFLAND Futures Gymnastic (Canada)53.700
Victoria-Kayen WOO Gym TNT (Canada) 50.150
Stefanie MERKLE CAN 50.100

At this point you can pencil in Victoria Moors for the Canadian team to the London test meet. Sabrina, also now age eligible, is another great challenger. Canada could be strong.

Results – Tournoi Combs (PDF … needs rotated page-by-page) linked by Oakville.

Click PLAY or watch her Vault on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her AA Floor on YouTube.

Commentary and more videos linked from Couch Gymnast.

FIG:

The Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships have launched its iPhone app.

The brand new app includes exciting features like detailed profiles on the GB Team and international gymnasts, maps of locations, videos, the event schedule and exclusive vouchers for restaurants close to the NIA.

The app is now ready to download from the app store, (SEARCH) ‘T&T World Champs 2011’

This from a post by Bekah:

Briley Casanova is a 2 time National Team Member, a future Michigan gymnast and a member of WOGA’s elite team. Briley trains with Laurent Landi’s group at the WOGA Plano …

7:45 or 8:00-11:45 AM– “We do team conditioning after we warm up until about 9:00, then normally my coaches split up our team into 2 groups and 1 group goes to bars and 1 group goes to beam …

3:30-6:30 PM– “Afternoon practice. We usually repeat bars and beam and finish things we might not have finished in the morning. We also try to finish at least one more event that night, either tumbling or vault.”

I’m sure that’s a simplification, but it’s still interesting to see so much emphasis on just 2 of the 4 apparatus.

Bekah’s “Get a Grip” – A Day in the Life of WOGA Elite Briley Casanova

A few pics of the facility. It’s the top floor of a building conveniently right beside the train station. In Japan you must maximize use of valuable space.

This gym has more air matting than any other I’ve ever seen.

Some things are the SAME in every gym. The smell. And a cluttered collection of grips.

see more photos

P.S. … the tidiest gym I’ve ever seen is run by Wolfgang & Elfrida Goermann, the Winnipeg Gymnastics Centre. Here’s their story.