Anastasia Grishina – Floor

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

see more routines on Gymnastics – No Ceiling – Favorite moments of 2010 – The best floor routines

another Gymnaestrada highlights vid

The water fountains featured in this clip is one of the BIGGEST highlights for many of the kids.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Kathryn Howard to Cirque

I tagged along with the Nebraska girls when coach Dan Kendig and team visited the show in Orlando before Nationals in Florida. Kathryn got inspired, that evening, to audition. 🙂

With her college gymnastics eligibility exhausted, the All-American performer was finishing her advertising degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln when she got a call from Cirque du Soleil, the Canada-based circus company with shows on six continents.

The company had an opening in Macau, and two weeks later, Howard was in China training for her new role.

Read more on the Journal Star – Husker gymnast now performing in Macau

Hoo hoo. I just got tickets for Cirque OVO playing Sept. 7th in Calgary.

Gymnastics – Emotions

Volker Minkus has been the official photographer of the International Gymnastics Federation since 2002.

He has about 14.000 watermarked photographs on minkus-images.de/en.

But here’s a much better way to see some of his best pics.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

Sang Lan happy with settlement

Sang Lan is happy with the court case that she finally has medical coverage outside of USA. USAG admit that the accident was not Sang Lam fault. Previous USAG and others claim that it was Sang’s fault. Sang and her lawyer has settled the claims brought against USAG and insurance companies.

Click PLAY or watch a Chinese TV news clip showing the letter from USAG.

How can an athlete be not at least partly responsible for over-rotating a Handspring Front timer?

I don’t understand this out of court settlement, at all.

Search this site for “Sang Lan” if you don’t know the backstory.

indoor synchronised skydiving

… synchronised skydiving with a difference – performed by four men inside a wind flight simulator in Prague, Czech Republic.

Their impressive two-minute show in the Skydive Arena finishes with a brilliant pay-off as they calmly leave the chamber like four men exiting a lift. …

Alberto Fuertes of Volare Freefly, Håvard Flaat of Skywalkers and Raphaël Coudray and Julien Guho of Team4Speed. …

Daily Mail – Who needs gravity? Impressive synchronised skydive video shows amazing performance in flight chamber

Click PLAY or watch them on YouTube.

That’s Norwegian electro-pop band Casio Kids.

Thank Jessica for the link.

introducing stretched handstand position

I love simple drills like this for the little ones. (Forward limber I can live without, though.)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.