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Between The Olympics posted a terrific list of girls with potential to be big names over the coming 2yrs of this Olympic cycle

Viktoria Komova
Jordyn Wieber
Tan Sixin
Gabrielle Douglas
Diana Bulimar
Natsumi Sasada
Carlotta Ferlito
Ana Sofia Gomez Porras
McKayla Maroney
McKenzie Wofford
Yoshino Taniguchi
Asuka Teramoto
Yao Jinnan
Maria Livchikova
Yulia Belokobilskaya
Maria Paseka
Madalina Neagu
Laura Mitchell
Tess Moonen
Mikaela Gerber
Madeline Gardiner
Angela Donald

click through for details, photos and links to videos – New Seniors For 2011

We have a lot of them.

Couch Gymnast argues that “sickle foot” might even be worse than “flexed feet”.

… Not often.

The top image is flexed. The bottom “sickled” (extended but with toes curled inward).

Those photos come from DanceClass.com.

I’ve even asked kids to deliberately sickle foot. For example, when trying to correct flexed feet on giants swinging past the low bar. Some girls find it less scary. And sickle foot looks not nearly as bad.

In the old days, Russian male gymnasts did pancake splits with feet sickled. I always liked that style, asking my boys to emulate it.

Comments?

Katrina sends a better photo example of flexed feet (and “dish” knee).

related – Dance Nerds – Learn More About Winging and Sickling

Pat Warren posted this pic. It brings back memories.

Queen City Gymnastics – Toby Towson and Jamie Kelsch

Late 1980s.

Nathan Price posted some training video of hand to hand training, progressions and spotting.

They use spotting belts at the circus space in London in some interesting ways.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It’s already time to think about summer camps in North America.

Woodward West in California, for example, takes applications online.

The pay is low at most of the big camps, be warned. But the benefits of working in that kind of environment, rich.

If you want to know more, click through to an interview with Woodward West Gymnastics Director Andy Timm from 2009.

Woodward has 3 camps for Artistic Gymnasts:

• Woodward West (California)
• Camp Woodward (Pennsylvania)
• Woodward Lake Owen (Wisconsin)

Another terrific option is International Gymnastics Camp in Pennsylvania.

Gymnastics Saskatchewan hosted 3 of the 4 Men’s Teams from Western Canada this weekend in Regina. Full results of that meet (PDF) on Gym Score Depot.

Kal Nemier from B.C. won the all-around.

More photos from the Sk Men’s Trial #2 for Canada Winter Games in Feb on Facebook.

Good luck at the Games, Feb 11-18, ‘2011 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Thanks Stu Cram.

Remind me never to spot that skill.

Since Youna Dufournet was injured on it (VIDEO), this skill’s been closely scrutinized.

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That’s Elisabeth Seitz in Bars Finals at Worlds (VIDEO).

Elisabeth was OK. And caught Def in the next competition.

Funny. The latest from Big Fake Smile.

Is she hurting? Or is she jerking? I don’t know, but it seems to be working…

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Some of that herky-jerky I quite like. Yvonne Tousek can do no wrong as far as I’m concerned.

related – Hideous Choreography Montage

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Black socks?

(via Full Twist)

by site editor Rick McCharles

I’m back as guest coach at Taiso Gymnastics in Saskatoon, Canada. I was here for most of the 1990s and it’s always great to come home.

The Head Coach is Markos Baikas, responsible for the Canadian Junior National Team program. His top guys are Worlds competitor Jayd Lukenchuk and Commonwealth Games H Bar silver medalist Anderson Loran.

Sunday noon Jan. 9th I’ll be I’m teaching the 3 Men’s modules Level 2 Technical: Pommel, Rings, P Bars. Canadian coaches who want to get those modules should meet us at Taiso. I have space in the course and extra manuals.