One thing I love about the solstice holidays is year end lists. I’ll link to a number starting with Andrew Thornton:
Top Five Men’s Moments of 2010
1. German Men Win World Team Bronze
2. Kohei Uchimura Dominates World Championships
3. Jonathan Horton Wins World All-Around Bronze
4. Exciting and Controversial High Bar Duel Caps Off World Championships
5. Danell Leyva Gives Horton a Scare
Here’s Hambüchen after the team medal in Rotterdam.
Germany is by far the most popular team with the young ladies.
Top Five Women’s Moments of 2010
1. Russian Women Win First Ever World Team Title
2. Alicia Sacramone Wins (her) First Ever World Vault Title
3. Lauren Mitchell Wins World Floor Gold
4. Beth Tweddle Regains World Bars Title
5. Mattie Larson Delivers Epic Floor Routine (Nationals)
The Men’s Championships goes same weekend, also in Ohio.
Ohio State University, Columbuswill host. It’s less than 3hrs drive between the two cities if you’re insanely contemplating seeing part of both, as I am.
Jun Chen told me of big new American style for profit gyms opening in China, as well. There’s obviously a demand. A shrewd business person would invest in those growing markets.
Prediction … a new Recreation Gymnastics website will launch SOON.
The elusive Perfect 10 may have died in elite gymnastics, but it’s still alive and well in college and club gymnastics. We saw a few Perfect 10.0 performances on gymnastike this year. Many of them were debated by viewers, but there’s no debating this one! Anna Li of UCLA nailed this beautiful set with a HUGE tkatchev to receive the first perfect 10.0 score of her career and lead her Bruins the the Pac 10 Team Title.
Click PLAY or see more like this on Gymnastike. They are running a Best of 2010 Countdown.
In my experience, gymnasts and acrobats are at lower risk of anorexia nervosa than the general population.
Though it’s possible to be a “functioning anorexic“, it’s not easy in Artistic Gymnastics.
Females are treated medically at something like a 10 to 1 ratio to males. Yet the only competitive gymnast I’ve ever had hospitalized, was male.
In that teenager’s very specific case it was triggered by him trying to meet a weight class in rowing. (He was doing both sports simultaneously.)
Here’s another detailed case study of male anorexia nervosa, Eric Ostendorf:
… Eric’s anorexic habits began when he was 10.
And more children like him are developing eating disorders early, researchers warned this week in a report in the journal Pediatrics. …
The perception that eating disorders affect only females is wrong, especially for younger kids. …
When Eric’s parents noticed his fixation on exercise and diet, they initially thought it was part of his obsessive-compulsive disorder. He had always been particular with his food, said his mother, Becky Ostendorf.
“He was very compulsive with exercise and of course losing weight,” she said.
Eating disorders give kids a sense of control that’s related to their anxiety, Weltzin said.
“There are rigid perfection obsessive-compulsive characteristics,” he said. “They get locked into a behavior in a compulsive way.” …
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