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Cirque’s Stacy Clark on Facebook linked to some new videos about the famed school.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
There are more clips like that on the CircusMontreal YouTube channel.
That’s a really good looking channel, by the way. They’ve used one of the new templates.
I have a friend who’s just applied.
What’s your excuse? 🙂
… Tina, a former elite, was injured and had to stop gymnastics at age 14. She returned to the sport in her late 20s. Today at 42 – two young kids, an ACL surgery, and many years later – Tina continues to compete in Maryland as part of First Class‘ Level 9 team …
Click PLAY or watch the LONG interview on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODQ2NTA4OTM4?related=1
Is Tina cool, or what?
At the start of this montage is a slow motion clip of Yelena Shushunova doing the Shushunova on Bars — currently over-valued as a G skill in the Code (3.703).
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
At the time called a full-twisting Tkachev, it’s clearly got nothing in common with the full-twisting Tkachev introduced by Valeri Liukin. It’s much more a giant with a half turn to a Markelov.
If you’re searching the WAG Code for that, they spell her name both Shushunova and Schuschunova. (Does anyone ever proof read that document?)
Alicia notes that she can’t recall seeing any current gymnasts doing this skill on 1-arm like Shushanova. Instead they finish the Blind Change on both hands (mixed grip) before doing the Markelov. Much easier.
And, in fact, the skill done from Blind with legs together — the Monckton — was valued as only a D-part (PDF) following World Championships Tokyo.
Click PLAY or watch Mary Anne Monckton’s skill on YouTube.
I’m OK with Monckton as a D-part. Shushunova’s still way over-valued.
For the 8 teams fighting for 4 team spots in the 2012 Olympics, now’s the time for things to go right.
Italy just finished a “trial” for the January Test Meet.
Couch Gymnast:
… Italy’s bid for a place in the Olympic Team competition is looking all the stronger for the addition of two new seniors this year. …
The meet was dominated by two Italian up-and-comers, Erika Fasana and Francesca Deagostini. Fasana’s AA score was 57.6. Francesca Deagostini recently impressed with her beautiful beam work at the Italian Grand Prix Event. She achieved the top score there. …
Click PLAY or watch Francesca Deagostini’s Beam from the Grand Prix on YouTube.
… In sad news, Serena Licchetta, 2009 and 2010 World Team member has torn an ACL again and will not be able to vie for the Olympic spot. …
Bars is the weak apparatus.
If you want to model for H&M, you need a body exactly like these young ladies.
Exactly.
The bodies of most of the models H&M features on its website are computer-generated and “completely virtual,” the company has admitted.
H&M designs a body that can better display clothes made for humans than humans can, then “dresses” it by drawing on its clothes, and digitally pastes on the heads of real women …
(via Kottke)
WAG coaches often remind us that giant is easier on Men’s Horizontal Bar.
True. But giant on Men’s Parallel Bars is more difficult than on the FIG Bars.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
See more like this on Nick Blanton’s YouTube channel.
Pixar’s John Lasseter has five children, all boys.
Though they make the most consistently excellent animated films, Pixar is often criticized for a bias towards male characters.
Perhaps that’s starting to change.
… Pixar has a forthcoming full-length movie, Brave, about a Scottish warrior-princess. It was slated to be directed by Brenda Chapman (Pixar’s first female director), then was replaced by Mark Andrews, with Chapman as co-director. …
Click PLAY or watch the trailer YouTube.
related – The Fall of the Female Protagonist in Kids’ Movies
Kimberly Murphy announces the launch of their new website:
“Offering cute, comfortable, and affordable gymnastics leotards for gymnasts everywhere”
Check it out – gymnasticsleotards4u.com
Available worldwide.
… Gretchen Goerlitz will take the reigns as the first head coach in history for the Lady Lions gymnastics program. …
Goerlitz hails from Neenah, Wis. where she was a level 10 gymnast for seven years at Oshkosh Gymnastics Center. She has a skill named after her on the uneven bars.
In 2007 Goerlitz graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology with an emphasis in cognitive neuroscience from Denver and in 2009 earned her master’s degree in exercise physiology from Texas Woman’s. …
Gretchen Goerlitz Named Lindenwood’s First Gymnastics Head Coach
Check out the interesting splash screen for their program.
Norwegian Champion Karoline Sandov is on the team. Nice.
Click PLAY or watch an interview with the new coach on YouTube.
If we want the WAG NCAA not only to survive, but to thrive, we need cheer any school brave enough to add gymnastics. Lindenwood is in Saint Charles, Missouri.
(via “Get a Grip“)
Tony Retrosi recommends this drill posted by Mary Lee Tracy.
Shaping drills for twisting and pirouettes
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I’ve never used it before. But will now.
