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Canada Winter Games Finals (results)

Feb 17 – Most Golden: Sabrina Gill, ON – 4 Gold medals in Team, AA, Bars, & Beam

High res photos at GraceClick

… I’m glad she hit Bars. Coach Kelly Manjak was happy, too.

Sabrina’s best quality as a gymnast is consistency. She hits under pressure. Reminds me of another Canadian gymnast …

Apparatus finals has finished in Halifax, Nova Scotia for MAG and WAG.

Full results here.

This is Team Newfoundland, lying down on the job.

photo c/o Lukas Stritt.

In progress.

Results are being posted here.

WAG VAULT

Who are Gym Crew?

USA Team member Chris Brooks and friends. Trying to make gymnastics and parkour cool, with cool clothing.

Gym Crew began with a promise among friends that when we were done with our competitive gymnastics careers, we would start a company that would impact the free running and gymnastics world in a positive way. We all came from different backgrounds, but what we all had in common was the love of gymnastics and a great respect for each other. In 2008 GymCrew was founded by Mubarak Abdullah, Taqiy Abdullah, Cody Trobaugh, Kerry Adderly, David & Jamie Henderson. Gym Crew was a way for us to stay involved with the sport and to create a gymnastics and free running apparel company.

I’ll never forget Taqiy Abdullah winning NCAA Championships in 2007. I wasn’t even watching him for the all-around. That was one fantastic meet for him.

In the beginning there was no premeditated business plan, just a goal of building a brand. We would travel around the world, trying to sell our apparel, meeting with club owners and getting to know them. Currently we are providing club owners and retail stores with new products to sell in their shops.

Check them out – gym-crew.com

And check out the Gym Crew Foundation, which focuses on supporting programs that support kids and education. That’s linked via the COMMUNITY tab.

Sabrina Gill and Silvia Colussi-Pelaez tied for Gold in the women’s all around.

Facebook album: 2011 Canada Games by Grace Chiu

Amanda Turner has a good summary of the WAG Team Finals on IG.

Gymnastics Canada summarizes the WAG All Around.

Today is Apparatus Finals for both MAG and WAG, all 10 the same day.

CWG videos on the Gymn.ca YouTube channel. And the Gymnastics Canada channel.

by site editor Rick McCharles

Right now College Men’s Gymnastics in the USA is on a death spiral. In 1982 there were 79 teams. What can be done to save the current 17 teams? … This is one in a series of posts.

#1 Increase the fan base at each of the MAG schools:

Illinois-Champaign (Big Ten), Illinois-Chicago (Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League), Iowa (Big Ten), Michigan (Big Ten), Minnesota-Twin Cities (Big Ten), Ohio State (Big Ten), Penn State (Big Ten), Springfield (EIGL), Temple (EIGL), U.S. Military Academy (EIGL), U.S. Naval Academy (EIGL), and William and Mary (EIGL).

California-Berkeley (Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), Nebraska-Lincoln (MPSF), Oklahoma (MPSF), Stanford (MPSF), and U.S. Air Force Academy (MPSF).

Several of the women’s College teams have somehow managed to accomplish it.

I asked then Cal coach Barry Weiner in 2008 how to save NCAA Men’s Gymnastics. He told me each school had to take care of their own team. Not to count on any outside help.

His team was cut last week.

What men’s teams have actually tried seriously to grow their fan base?

Who has the highest attendance in 2011?

Leave a comment if you have an opinion on how to grow the audience for Men’s Gymnastics.

related – Gymnastics Examiner – How to better market men’s NCAA gymnastics?

Posted by International Gymnastics Camp.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

Leave a comment if you know what that’s about.

IGC has a gorgeous video called Poetry posted on Facebook.

Gymnova has some free software where you can design a gymnastics gym.

I tried the online version on a Mac. … Fail.

I didn’t try the software download.

Here’s the link if you want to give it a go. Gymnova – Create your gymnasium in 3D

Leave a comment if you’ve tried it.

One thing I like about competitive cheerleading is the number of choices coaches and kids have in what competitions to attend.

There are a number of companies and organisations operating independently, many in the USA. If you don’t like one, switch to another.

Choices are a good thing. Though some are safer than others.

But it’s the The International Cheer Union, listing nearly 100 member nations, that applied for recognition by the International Olympic Committee.

Now they are in negotiations with FIG and SportAccord, the former General Association of International Sports Federations. Another step in the long road towards being recognized as an Olympic sport.

What do you think? Could Cheer get into the Olympics, one day?

The ICU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS will be held again in Orlando, April 27-30th, 2011.

The International Cheer Union currently encompasses 91 National Federations from countries across the globe. Every year the ICU host the ICU World Championship. Unlike the USASF Worlds, this competition uses Level 6/ Collegiate style rules. Countries assemble and send only one team to represent them.

… A dozen speakers from the USA, Great Britain, Belgium, Greece and Australia will be welcomed to the FIG Head Office in Lausanne, February 18 – 19, for a Scientific Colloquium, the conclusions of which are anticipated by the entire international gymnastics community. …

FIG

Organized by Keith Russell, of the FIG Scientific Commission, Dr Adam Baxter-Jones will chair.

Dr. Dennis Caine, Dr. Gaston Beunen, Dr. Robert Malina, Dr. Rob Daly, Dr. Alan Rogol, Dr. Richard Lewis, Dr. Neoklis Georgopoulos, Dr Neil Armstrong, Dr. Michel Leglise, etc. …

Many of the most important researchers in the field.

Nobody can claim FIG is ducking the issue of what intensive training does to kids. Respect.