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24 teams MAG and 24 teams WAG have qualified to the next Worlds, Tokyo, Oct. 2011.

The top 8 teams in Tokyo will qualify for the Olympics.

That leaves 16 teams to fight it out for the final 4 spots at a second trial, the pre-Olympic test event in London, Jan. 10-13, 2012.

Both “trials” meets will be super compelling. … However, nations who are not confident of finishing top 8 in Tokyo must plan and budget for two major meets within 4 months.

A team happy to finish 9th to 12th (Canada, for example) might use a strategy to PEAK for the second trial. (Tokyo would be low priority, London high priority.)

Those teams that have no chance of finishing top 8 in Tokyo might even leave some of their best gymnasts home, training for London.

This same new Olympic qualification system is being used in Rhythmic and Trampoline

Anyone hearing complaints about this? … It’s going to be really expensive for those nations having to compete both trials.

You’ve probably heard about the minimalist running shoe trend.

None of those are appropriate for indoor acrobatic training.

But what about this concept – called footstickers – from Nike?

… models are shown for yoga and dance, and how they’d actually stick to your feet isn’t explained, nor is the connection to Nike. …

adventure journal

I’m not convinced this is the Beam footwear of the future, but it’s worth experimenting if and when they are actually manufactured. It would be a cleaner ‘look’ than homemade pads or ShockSox.

(via behance)

LSU gymnastics head coach D-D Breaux is going to live and spend the night inside a tent in the LSU SportShop beginning Thursday, and she will remain there until Dec. 21 unless she reaches her goal of selling 200 gymnastics season tickets.

Tickets are only $25 for adults and $15 for youth ages 3-12, and LSU gymnastics season tickets can be a the perfect holiday gift for the family.

LSU Sports

… Spring is entering his fifth season overall on the coaching staff, after spending one year as an associate head coach and three years as an assistant coach under 33-year veteran Yoshi Hayasaki.

“It’s truly an honor to take over a program I grew to love so much as a student-athlete,” Spring said. “My passion for the program has only increased and I look forward to doing the best I can to make this program as successful as possible.”

… in addition to his coaching duties, is currently pursuing his master’s in recreation, sport and tourism.

Fighting Illini

Funny. Over a million views.

… These guys live life on the edge, but stay away from drugs and alcohol …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Jason MacDonald for the past 2yrs has been helping Illinois and Region 5 kids with their NCAA applications.

As a sample, check out Megan Greenfield from Trinity GEMS, coached by Chris Riegel.

This website was designed for me to put all my recruiting information in one place for college coaches to assess. I will be updating this site regularly to give the most current video footage, competition results, and any other important recruiting information

MeganGreenfield.com

If you want to know more, click through to Jason’s Lights On Recruiting site. Or call him at (630)715-3548.

He’s expanding his “recruit marketing” to gymnasts worldwide and to all NCAA sports. This kind of service is ideal for gymnasts from outside the USA, I feel.

Goal = two golds, two silvers, two bronzes

The Rewriting Russian Gymnastics English summary makes sense of the confusing Google translated Sovietski Sport interview with Valentina and Andrei Rodienenko (Russian).

In addition:

• they can’t rely on the judges to get the medals right
• rebuilding the Men’s program is taking longer than WAG

Click through for an interesting, if daunting, read.

After an exciting finish in our YOG mascot online voting, we want to congratulate the winner: the GOAT designed by Florencia Demaria & Luis Abbiati!

Innsbruck 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games on Facebook.

Does this look familiar?

See more baby Nabieva videos and photos via Stoi!.

Click though to Couch Gymnast for baby Mustafina.

Anyone care to explain the biomechanical advantages of Paul Ruggeri’s weird round-off?

Paul placed 3rd at the 2010 Toyota Cup …. This was his first time competing this new routine!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Love the Tamayo (layout double Arabian).

But more than anything else, this is a perfect example of why Men’s gymnastics is so un-artistic. It’s more advantageous to add a cheap C-part than to do any corner parts, … or even hold a V-sit.