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… Dutch National Women’s Gymnastics Team Athletes practicing in GK Gymnastics Tank Leotards and Workout Shorts.

Gymnasts featured in the video are Marlies Rijken, Joy Goedkoop, Celine van Gerner, Lisa Top, & Saskia Meekma.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That wild edit created by Martijn Kuikman, the same guy who did the fantastic The New Dimension Of Gymnastic Video (MAG). He’s a film student.

Don’t try this at home, kids.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via All Things Gym)

Team
Japan 165.20
Ukraine 164.60
Russia 162.15

AA from PRELIMINARIES
Hyunjoo Jo(KOR) 55.60
Yu Minobe(JPN) 55.55
Mai Yaagishi(JPN) 55.05

VT
Hyunjoo Jo(KOR) (14.1/13.5)13.8
Anna Myzdrikova(RUS) (13.55/13.95)/13.75
Huying Angel Wong (HKG) (13.75/13.65)13.65

UB
Yu Minobe(JPN) 14.95
Mai Yamagishi(JPN) 14.35
Krislyna Palesova(CZE) 14.25

BB
Yana Demyanchuk(UKR) 15.35
Guan Wenli(CHN) 14.9
Anastasila Koval(UKR) 14.7

FX
Alena Polyan(RUS) 13.7
Ekartrena Skorodumova(RUS) 13.60
Keiko Mukumoto(JPN) 13.6

more results and video link on the Chinese Gymnastics blog

… More than 8,000 athletes from around 100 countries will compete in 24 sports in the 11 days to August 23. …

Between the Olympics:

… 66 routines from 2010 team finals, including every routine from Russia, USA, China and Romania.

Some of the routines shown were not previously on youtube. These include

Koko Tsurumi- Vault
Momoko Ozawa- Vault
Gabriela Dragoi- Beam
Jiang Yuyuan- Beam
Lauren Mitchell- Vault
Sandra Izbasa- Vault

video links – Revisiting 2010 Worlds

It was a photographer at Worlds who told me he couldn’t take a ‘BAD’ photo of Kohei.

But I think I can detect a tiny form break on the post flight of his vault. And look at that incomplete twist on landing! (WAG judges would call it a double twist.)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

There. He is beatable. 🙂

… seriously, guys with GREAT form like him don’t get nearly as much credit as they should under the current code.

That was linked by The All Around on Facebook.

Gymnastics Examiner asks the question:

Is Nastia Liukin training again?

It MIGHT be that she’s in a top secret training facility with Michael Phelps and Apolo Ohno.

… Seems they live on Subway sandwiches at that gym/pool/rink.

See more illustrations. (PDF)

I have tickets for Sept. 7th in Calgary, taking one of my former gymnasts who’s keen to audition. They’ve added a number of additional shows for my home town, so sales are good. There’s not much of a recession in Alberta.

Click PLAY or watch a preview on YouTube.

OVO in Calgary

One concern I had on arrival at World Gymnaestrada 2011 was safety of the participants.

With no competition, no awards on the line, you’d think there would be comparatively few injuries.

Yet I saw many people there in casts. And a few in wheelchairs.

This girl was injured 2 days before travel to Switzerland. (She came with her group, anyway.)

In Switzerland this summer, 154 people (as an example) were treated on Wednesday, July 13th, with 19 people evacuated that day to hospitals for small trauma (sprains, strains, etc.).

Organizers had 82 medical staff on duty each day to care for the 19,000+ on site.

Overall, I felt Gymnaestrada performances were fairly safe. One Acrobatic Gymnast from Portugal had a bad fall on a double back. He was taken out in a stretcher, the worst injury I saw personally.

Next day a Canadian Acrobatic gymnast (who was also showing double back) told me that he was OK.

(via Rec Gymnastics)

Couch Gymnast has been posting predictions on what gymnasts will be sent to Worlds in Tokyo:

• USA
• Romania
• Russia
• China

Team USA is my strong prediction to win. But Romania may be the big happy surprise of World Championships 2011.

For once we’re not hearing endless stories of crisis out of Romania, just before the BIG meet. The small pool of Romanian elite gymnasts seems to be happy, motivated and relatively healthy. So far.

Leave a comment if you’ve a strong prediction on the WAG Team podium. Or, even more important, the top 8 who will qualify directly to the Olympics.

Being healthy and psyched for the BIG meet is critical.

Some coaches are better at bringing kids ready to “bring it” than others.

Some gyms always seem to peak too early in the season. Or their kids are injured at just the wrong time, before the BIG meet.

The final episode of Workout Wednesday before the 2011 Visa Championships in Saint Paul features the team with the most qualifiers (7 Juniors), Texas Dreams. …

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MTEzNTAzMTg3?related=1

Watch more video of Visa Championships 2011 on gymnastike.org

I like the psychology of their gym.

Is that Tiffany Tolnay training in the background?