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eHow is an online how-to guide with more than 1 million articles and 170,000 videos offering step-by-step instructions on how to do things.

It’s much criticized as a “content mill” or “content farm“. Low quality crap written to get a high Google ranking, pushing Google ads deceptively.

Hows that working out for them?

eHow got the #1 rank for a Google search = “Gymnastics Coach”.

(I reset the Browser so there was nothing in the cache or history.)

Sage advice from eHow:

… Encourage your gymnasts to stay on their toes at all times by using the balance beam. Instruct each gymnast to walk across the beam at the beginning of practice. Once your practice is finished, ask them to do a simple handstand or flip on the beam to demonstrate the necessity for balance.

Why doesn’t Google rank content farms lower?

… Maybe they like all that Google ad revenue.

In Bing eHow was #1, as well. (And Bing results are consistently worse for me on any specialized search term.)

Check in your own browser. My results might have been personalized by location.

The new Duck Duck Go browser filters out all eHow results. This site was #1 there.

Wikipedia has blacklisted all eHow articles.

No, not a Men’s Team. Sadly.

The Board of Directors at Lindenwood University (LU), located in St. Charles, MO (near St. Louis) has just approved the addition of a women’s gymnastics program as part of its transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II competition (2013-2014).

An athletic committee is now being formulated to make a recommendation to the Board in May regarding details of the program’s implementation (facility, coaching, etc.).

flagymiemom on College Gymnastics Board

This is far from a done deal. But it may help for the gymnastics community to rally round the cause.

Here’s the Coeur d’Alene Resort in Idaho, right now. We’re setting up for the big competition this weekend.

Meet Director Dave Adlard is the last man standing end of night.

more photos

home page

Unofficial.

Some sort of ‘National Championships’ in Russia.

Anna Dementieva 58.05
Anna Pavlova 56.2
Alena Polyan 55.15
Yulia Inishina 55.1
Yulia Belokobylskaya 54.7
Maria Stepanova 54.25

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

… Viktoria Komova had the highest score on bars – 16.700 (be aware of the fact that Russia uses a modified CoP), Dementyeva the highest on floor – 15.100, Yulia Belokobylskaya the highest on beam – 14.550 – and Pavlova the highest on vault – 14.900. …

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I want to see that 16.70 Bar routine. …

… Of other famous names, Tatiana Nabieva competed vault and bars only. Aliya Mustafina and Anastasia Grishina were not in the line-up.

Going For Gold

… The Gym Dogs, who have lacked depth this season due to a plethora of injuries, had juniors Gina Nuccio and Kat Ding back into multiple events in Friday’s win over No. 21 LSU. …

Nuccio, who is not only Ding’s teammate but also her roommate and best friend, competed in the first three meets of the season, but injured her ankle against West Virginia.

From then until the Florida meet two weeks ago, Nuccio had been limited to the uneven bars along with her injured roommate Ding. …

Head coach Jay Clark said he may be the happiest person watching Ding and Nuccio return together. He said their presence has sparked competition among his thin roster for spots in the lineup, something the Gym Dogs have been missing all season. …

Gym Dogs’ dynamic duo returning to full health

Coach Casie, an American at the club, emailed:

A non-profit community organization, serving the expatriate and local community in Singapore, is seeking a GYMNASTICS HEAD COACH/PROGRAM DIRECTOR. … both recreational and competitive gymnastics.

The competitive teams represent the organization at local Singapore competitions as well as international competitions within Southeast Asia. …

A competitive salary, benefits and relocation package is offered.

Interested candidates are asked to submit a Resume/CV to sacac AT sas.edu.sg

See a video of some of the kids.

Update from Russian Championships:

All Around:
1. Anna Dementyeva
2. Anna Pavlova
3. Alyona Polyan

full results to come

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The fan favourite is still competing. Let’s hope she beats some of the National Team members at Russian Championships, just starting.

See podium training photos from Moscow. Follow that meet via Rewriting Russian Gymnastics.

NCAA Schedule | CollegeGymFans.com | WAG NCAA Friday

Strong standing Arabian.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODMzNDY1MDIy

Watch more video of 2011 WOGA Classic on gymnastike.org

Active Music Library is the UK´s largest production music website with over 50,000 pieces of music, free from the MCPS rate card. That means we can offer you the biggest and best choice of music with savings of up to 95% on what MCPS would charge you ! Not only that but we’ll deliver it right to your desk top !!

But right now you can get instrumental music free after joining GymnastFix, also free.

It’s a new online gymnastics community for gymnasts and gymnastic clubs.

Step 1 – join Gymnastfix.

Step 2 – Leave a comment in the forum that you’d like free access to Active Music Library.

Site editor Stacie Ridley needs to personally approve that you are a GymnastFix member, … then you should be able to see a download button at the side of the tracks you are listening to. You must be logged in, of course.

That might take a day or two. Worked for me.

Here’s a Techno clip I downloaded, as a test.

Once you are a member of GymnastFix, check out the photos, videos, etc.