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Albert from Barcelona posted the story:

Several former Spanish National Team members have united in a new project to promote the sport in Barcelona and its suburbs. To this date, Barcelona didn’t have a high level gym club, leaving a 2 milion people market orphan.

In a privileged location, just in front the Mediterranean sea, the new Club Gimnàstic La Mina – Gervasio Deferr is a new facility with all the infrastructure to start and develop gymnasts. It is located in the poorest suburbs of the metropolitan area of Barcelona, so it is also an opportunity to open gymnastics to a new demographic section of the population. …

… the club already has recruited two National Team members among their gymnasts: 2006 World finalist on floor Thais Escolar and 2010 World Team member Cristiana Mironescu, both coming back from injuries.

THE ALL AROUND – Spanish stars create a gym club

Good luck.

Deferr is “the most decorated Spanish gymnast in history with 3 Olympic medals (2 golds on vault in Sidney and Athens; and a silver on floor in Beijing 2008).”

LIKE their Facebook page.

Russia seems so strong now it’s already hard to remember that they finished out of the medals in 2008.

Russia 2008: Pick Up the Pieces

They had plenty of problems.

nastia2012:

… The members of the 2008 Russian Olympic Team were Anna Pavlova, Ksenia Semenova, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Ekaterina Kramarenko, Ludmila Grebenova (Ezhova) and Svetlana Klyukina.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

GymNiceTic linked to this video pointing out that these kids dance better than Artistic gymnasts.

Maes, Ineke and Julie

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That was at Zeestern Trials 2011 in De Panne, Beligium Jan 16th.

The more I watch Acrobatic gymnastics, the more I like it. Super human physical ability, great control, lovely execution … and a far lower injury rate than Artistic.

As if Anne and her team didn’t already produce more gymnastics content than anyone else on the internet …, for the first time they are attempting LIVE streaming of the Stanford v Oregon State v UCLA meet at Chicago Style this Friday. (beginning at 7pm)

Good luck.

That same day the Canada Winter Games start in Halifax. Bell Aliant will deliver over 700 hours of LIVE coverage of all sports. No ‘schedule’ as yet to tell us when Gymnastics will be featured.

The Canadian National Gymnastics Championships 2011 do not have anyone doing LIVE video coverage this year (so far), though we did in 2010.

official home page of the Canadian National Championships

Difficult question.

On The Discussion:

In the midst of the comebacks, new seniors, astonishing 20-somethings and World champions, have we forgotten about someone?

Bloggers from around the world were asked who they thought was the most underrated female gymnast competing today. Everybody had a different opinion. Here’s what they had to say …

Continue reading on Examiner.com: The Discussion: The most underrated female gymnast in the world? – National Gymnastics | Examiner.com

Leave your comments on that post.

Rumours have been posted on Aunt Joyce and other blogs for some days.

At least 9 Chinese figure skaters have discrepancies in their birth dates.

… This doesn’t mean ages have been falsified. But it does seem suspicious that so many birth dates were posted incorrectly.

Try FSUniverse if you want to follow the discussion.

Thanks Katrina.

(via Body Rhythm)

Lukas Stritt sends this photo from Campia Gymnastics in Newfoundland.

Seems these boys have nothing better to do at the gym than create a ‘Gym Art Sculpture’ out of training equipment. 🙂

Go to POMMEL, guys!

Sara Gill is a choreographer from Rochester, MN.

She’s getting into the business of advising coaches, parents and gymnasts on the tricky business of American collegiate recruiting. For now, she’s willing to help your gymnast for free.

If you can’t afford one of the established companies, Victory Collegiate Consulting or Lights On Recruiting, for example, try Sara. The price is right. For now.

If you are not from the USA, I highly recommend getting a consultant. There are many complicated rules imposed by the NCAA.

To follow her progress, subscribe to Sara’s new blog – GymDynasty.

Valentin Uzunov of the The Gym Press endorses Sara, so we know she’s good.

Both spelling are used. Artemev is one of the few gymnasts today doing them through handstand.

Click PLAY or watch his Olympic Pommel routine on YouTube.

I’ve been convinced by denn333 to switch to flare as the best spelling:

The word is “flare” — not “flair”. This is probably the most commonly misspelled word in gymnastics, and it’s no wonder: it’s commonly misspelled in English (in general), and the code of points spells it both ways, sometimes even on the same page.

Here’s why: The word “flare” means a “sudden burst” (like a solar flare or a flare of anger) or shapes with a “gradual widening” (like a flared vase). Both of these do a good job at describing the skill, particularly the latter. The word “flair” describes style.

Moreover, while flares can be counted, flair is a non-count noun, like style, happiness, and time. So the sentence “The gymnast did 2 flares” makes sense, but but “The gymnast did 2 flairs” does not.

Of course, flares certainly add flair to a routine. 🙂

Admiring Gymnastics From Afar is an excellent new blog (now linked under BLOGS in the right hand navigation) by Kary Kleiner from New Zealand.

Actually, Kary also has some posts on there from 2007. She’s back.

In one post she expands on the controversy at Worlds regarding the “Corridor Marking” deduction on Vault.

It sounds like WAG vault judging at Commonwealth Games in Delhi was even worse.

This vault was deducted 0.1 for being “close to the corridor line”.

This one was not deducted:

With the benefit of angle and freeze frame, it’s easy to condemn the judges.

But on podium, from the side, it’s much tougher to see what actually happened in real time.

One and all must agree that the wording “close to the corridor line” must be changed. It’s too vague.

Hopefully they’ll FIX this mistake in the rules at the Feb. 19-21st FIG WAG Technical meeting.

For more examples and videos click over to Admiring Gymnastics From Afar – My Reflections on last year: Part 2 – Judging Confusion

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Update from denn333:

in MAG, the deductions for the vault lines are the same as the deductions for FX:
-0.1: one foot or hand over the line
-0.3: more than just one foot or hand over the line
-0.5: landing outside the line

Just Another Opinion asks if there was a “line judge” at that meet?