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A new book by Steven Low (Author), Chris Salvato (Editor), KC Parsons (Editor), Valentin Uzunov (Illustrator)

At 542 pages you might want to gift a coach the Kindle edition. 🙂

details – Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength

From the women’s team final of the 2011 Trampolining and Tumbling World Championships in Birmingham

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

Amazing how she can keep stretched on the full twisting double layout.

China is definitely the most dominant nation in Trampoline sports 2011.

And how about 35yr-old Marina Moskalenko of the U.S.A. competing Tumbling Worlds! (VIDEO)

Click PLAY or watch an Illinois Gymnastics Pre-season Promo on YouTube.

I’ve been dubious about our Olympic Champion’s comeback.

But she’s lined up in front of Marta with the rest of the Olympic hopefuls. And I’ve heard Nastia’s already looking quite good. Congratulations.

See a larger version of that photo from Polina Shchennikova’s facebook page on Gymnastike.

Here’s a list of camp attendees.

Mihai (mikeyy) Parvulescu of fangymnastics is conducting an online survey about Romanian Artistic Gymnastics.

… The main objective of this survey is to determine the way Romanian gymnastics is perceived by its fans and supporters. We all know that the Romanian delegation returned home without any medal from this year’s Worlds. Through this survey we want to find out what are the problems of Romanian gymnastics and how can we try to solve them or to bring in some advice.

We would be very grateful if you were willing to fill in and to help us sharing it.

The survey can be found here.

Also, we have a Romanian version.

Anastasia Jade launched a series of gymnastics month in review views. Subscribe to her  GymnasticsFan1144 YouTube channel.

Click PLAY or watch November 2011 on YouTube.

I saw that linked from the Chinese Gymnastics Blog.

Amanda Turner has a nice summary post on the Chinese National Individual Championships, just ended in Hong Kong.

She links some videos from results.

I couldn’t convince this guy to come out of retirement — even though his team needs an all-arounder.

Yang Yilin and Sui Lu made an appearance at finals to support teammates. Multimillionaire Li Ning invited dignitaries out on his boat. China is all about connections.

I was freaked out by a Freakonomics audiocast recently.

STEPHEN J. DUBNER:

You know the bromide: “a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.”

To which Freakonomics Radio says … Are you sure? Sometimes quitting is strategic, and sometimes it can be your best possible plan.

… To help us understand quitting, we look at a couple of key economic concepts in this episode: sunk cost and opportunity cost.

Sunk cost is about the past – it’s the time or money or sweat equity you’ve put into a job or relationship or a project, and which makes quitting hard.

Opportunity cost is about the future. It means that for every hour or dollar you spend on one thing, you’re giving up the opportunity to spend that hour or dollar on something else – something that might make your life better. …

Athletes — they use baseball players in their research — often stay in the sport too long.

In our context we’ve seen over and over again how much more successful gymnasts are when they move to other acrobatic sports. A friend today told me about his daughter — she quit gym and 3 months later was at the National Diving Championships.

Today she’s on an NCAA diving scholarship.

Here’s the link to that podcast – New Freakonomics Radio Podcast: “The Upside of Quitting”

… Don’t let your kids quit too soon. But equally important, help them transition at the optimum time. Artistic Gymnastics is still a youth sport, especially for women.

Surprisingly hypnotic to watch.

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Cyrille is from Switzerland.

This isn’t juggling, actually. It’s Poi.

Poi refers to both a style of performance art and the equipment used for engaging in poi performance. As a performance art, poi involves swinging tethered weights through a variety of rhythmical and geometric patterns. …

Poi originated with the M?ori people of New Zealand, where it is still practiced today. …

(via insphyre and Valentin-Angelo Uzunov on Facebook)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

There are plenty more good videos from Birmingham on the FIG YouTube channel.

(via Brett MacAulay on Facebook)

Brett and the rest of the Canadians are pretty happy with results, overall.