Team USA Worlds highlights

Rotterdam highlights from USAG.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Full Twist)

Another video success stories in major events over the past year – 2010 USA Gymnastics: An Amazing Year

stormfreerun parkour

Filmed by a pro, Claudiu Voicu, here’s another superb edit. Not many new tricks, but plenty of amusing and entertaining sequences.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (8min, slow start)

stormfreerun:

Tim “Livewire” Shieff
Paul “Blue” Joseph
Ashley “Spyder” Holland
Jan Barcikowski
Franck “Cali” Nelle

(via FlipCatch)
stormfreerun from the UK.

MarsEdit blogging software

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Skip this post if you don’t have your own blog.

Every year or so I experiment with offline blogging software, usually MarsEdit, as that seems to be the most popular on the Mac platform ($40). (The main competitor, Ecto, is only $20.)

There is a bit of a learning curve in using MarsEdit. But I think I’m willing to spend the time to learn it. Finally.

Advantages:

• it’s faster to work offline

• live preview while you edit

• you can set up a “template” to duplicate the look and feel of your actual blog

Problems:

• no option to open links in a new window

• the resulting HTML text is more complex, more difficult to go back and edit

Leave a comment if you’ve a better solution to write blog posts offline. This post was written with MarsEdit. See any problem with it?

why we love Ana Porgras

Nathalie from Netherlands made a sweet tribute video for Ana Porgras.

Sometimes I feel like I’m alone
Sometimes I feel like I’m not that strong
Sometimes I feel so frail so small
Sometimes I feel vulnerable
Sometimes I feel a little fragile
A little fragile

lyrics

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Ana is neither fragile nor vulnerable.

But she is under-hyped. Far better than many average fans give her credit.

Bea linked to that edit in celebration of Ana’s birthday, December 18th.

Animal Print Tiger Paws

For those coaches who feel wrist supports are as much a fashion accessory as a training aid, … confirmation:

American Gymnast – Animal Print Tiger Paws (sale $51.95)

Be sure to watch Jay Thornton’s sizing video before you order.

inspiring gymnast – Raj Bhavsar

Mary-anne Monckton qualified to the Australian Commonwealth Games team … then was injured tumbling into the pit. (She landed on the edge of the Floor.)

She was replaced by her closest friend on National Team, Georgia Wheeler. And had ankle surgery the day after the girls left for Delhi, a reconstruction.

Today Mary-anne is back training, working towards Worlds 2011. Her story is documented on Couch Gymnast.

For inspiration, Mary-anne should read the story of Raj Bhavsar. He was named a non-competing Olympic alternate, … twice.

That after filling 100 pages of a notebook with this line:


I am on the 2008 Olympic team. I am on the 2008 Olympic team. I am on the 2008 Olympic team.

But today Raj has an Olympic Bronze medal. He persevered and achieved his goal. HIs advice to Mary-anne …

“Never give up.”

Read his story in the Houston Chronicle – His future is up in the air

(via Full Twist)