need a robot spotter?

Robots can now catch balls with an 80 percent success rate. How long before we have a robot that can spot gymnastics? 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Rollin’ Justin on YouTube.

Jeremy linked to a related post – 6 Shocking Ways Robots Are Already Becoming Human

Beauty of Tricking (slow mo)

AlexD from Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Cirque’s Marceline Goldstein linked to this video on Facebook.

reading this on a mobile device?

People are spending more time inside mobile applications on average than they are on the web, according to an analysis from Flurry, a mobile analytics firm. …

Read more …

It’s been a couple of years since the last update of this site. Any update would be mainly to improve the experience on phones and tablets.

Leave a comment if you have an opinion on this.

via @JasonShen

compression socks for gymnasts?

When I was a gymnast, in the distant past, our biggest overuse injury was shin splints. We ran, tumbled and vaulted on hard surfaces.

Happily, shin splints in Artistic gyms is now rare. Most clubs have only one or two kids with mild cases. (‘Pommel Pains‘, forearm splints, are as big a problem as ever.)

My running friends tell me that compression wear does work. … I’m wondering if any of those few gymnasts still suffering shin splints had experimented with these:

details on this brand

Leave a comment if you’ve tried them.

Paul Bowler – PIKED Marinich

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Paul is today a big star in Cirque du Soleil. Vitali Marinich is Head Coach at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

That video was posted on the WTFgymnasticsvideos YouTube channel. Extreme stuff.

It may have originally been posted by igorgymn1.

iMuscle iPad app

Available USA only.

Lifehacker recommends …

Most fitness apps for iOS will teach you to stretch and exercise through specific demonstrations, but iMuscle takes it a step further by actually showing you the muscles in action.

It works by providing a ton of animated diagrams that are accessible with just a touch. When you launch the app, you just grope the part of the muscular body you want to work on and it’ll stick a few pins in it. Each pin corresponds to a muscle (or muscle group) and its associated exercises and stretches. Touching any of the exercises or stretches will provide you with an animated demonstration, written instructions, and pictures of the affected muscles. …

iMuscle Teaches You to Stretch and Exercise by Literally Showing You the Muscles in Action

If you like that, check out similar apps for the Skeletal System and Muscular System.

Thanks for the link, Warren.

wtfgymnasticsvideos

Andy Thornton discovered WTF, linking to some of the craziest gymnastics of all time. For example, this is how we want to see releases connected on Horizontal Bar …

Click PLAY or watch Sergei Kharkov on YouTube.

Check out these two posts:

• American Gymnast – Cool and crazy videos…
• American Gymnast – More crazy videos you gotta see!!

wtfgymnasticsvideos YouTube channel

Brian’s Extreme Home makeover

Brian Keefer was paralyzed in 2008.

How did it happen?

How else … multiple forward somersaulting. His first attempt at triple front into a foam pit.

Around mid-morning, an enormous reddish-orange bus rolled onto Dubbers Drive …

Ty Pennington, the host of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” got out and knocked on the family’s door.

Brian Keefer answered.

“Good morning, Keefer family!” Pennington crowed, according to Brian. The Keefers had been selected by the show to have their home remodeled, with another fully accessible home — with a separate entrance — built for Brian. …

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

read more on the York Daily Record

(via IG)