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J.D. Reive was one of the most talented gymnasts I’ve ever seen in person. The kind of kid who learned giants on Rings before dislocates.

He was coached by former Cal Berkeley boss, Barry Weiner.

After 7yrs assistant at Stanford, J.D.’s a Head Coach for the first time. How’s it going?

J.D. Reive was hired at Iowa over the summer after long-time Head Coach Tom Dunn retired. Reive talks about coming in to the program, implementing his training program, and hopes for the future of Hawkeye gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch an interview with J.D. on Gymnastike.

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From a figure skating coach, Xan Nelson:

What, exactly, makes a parent “pushy?” And why do we always use the term as though it’s a bad thing? I don’t know about you, but I don’t know many 11 year olds who will get up at 5 a.m. every day to go freeze and fall on their butts over and over without a little whining. Or who then have the energy to finish their homework before an early bedtime, and then do it all again tomorrow.

You gotta push a little. In fact, you gotta push a lot. You’ve got to push a 10 year old to have the mindset of a 20-year-old, and a 15 year-old to approach their skating as though they’re 25 year-old grad students, with that level of commitment, sacrifice and maturity.

So what’s the difference between a pushy parent who’s effective, and one who’s just pushy? …

read more – Why figure skating needs pushy parents

‘Pushy’ is the wrong adjective. We want parents supportive, consistent, dedicated and ambitious.

That’s the reaction of others, too, on an Chalk Bucket forum thread. And in the comments on that post.

You might be interested in this:

A Parent’s Questionnaire
Dr. Alan Goldberg
Competitive Advantage

It’s for parent education. The higher the score, the more potential damage that they are doing to their child.

We now know that this hand sign used by the Chinese gymnasts represents the sports manufacturer Li Ning.

Problem is … Li Ning was not an “official sponsor” of the Asian Games hosted in China.

Right now the gymnasts are being “investigated” by the Olympic Council of Asia:

… Men’s all-around gold medallist Teng Haibin may have landed his team in hot water after he wasn’t exactly discreet about the gesture following his victory on Monday.

“This is a gesture that’s required as part of the deal with our sponsor,” he said, explaining that it was meant to resemble Li Ning’s “L” shaped logo.

But Chen Yibing and He Kexin have tried to pour cold water on the situation, insisting the gesture has been completely misunderstood.

“The gesture looks like the letter ‘l’, the first letter of the English word love, so it means love,” Olympic rings champion Chen said.

He added: “We decided to do that together before the competition as a celebration gesture, nothing (about) business, just for fun.”

Nice try but those hand gestures look like smoking guns to me.

That from the excellent More Than The Games

Gymtruthteller called these the first two the best routines done by any gymnasts this year. Certainly the first, Sui Lu, is SOLID. One step on landing.

Click PLAY or watch the first 2 Beam routines on YouTube.

Sui Lu
Deng Linlin 1:42
Mai Yamagishi 3:41
Moon Eunmee 5:29
Luiza Galiulina 7:14

It doesn’t matter how good your beam routine is in 2010. The judges still won’t score you higher than 9.0.

1 305 SUI Lu 6.500 8.925 15.425
2 301 DENG Linlin 6.600 8.600 15.200

Could somebody list me the 1.0 in deductions for Sui Lu?

I’ve seen a lot of good work from the young girls at Tolworth, London. Nice artistry and flexibility. Very mature for their ages.

Click PLAY or watch Catherine‘s beam training on YouTube.

To see more go to the teamsparkle1 YouTube channel. Or watch Aasha goofing … and showing some nice Beam and Bars training.

Of course there are other young talents coming up, including Ellie Downie, Becky Downie’s younger sister:

… At 11 years old she is the British U12 champion. Ellie’s coach Claire Starkey at Notts Gym Club thinks that Ellie is just as talented as her older sister …

Full Twist

The confirmation package for our 10th annual GWGF is now available.

New this season is a Prep Opt session on Sunday. And an “Oh Canada” division, something I’ve been requesting for a few years. Canadian gymnasts can compete Canadian rules at a meet in the USA. Cool. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho is close to Spokane and the Canadian border.

I just hope meet director Dave Adlard has a giant Canadian flag, as well. That little one’s not going to do. 🙂

details – GreatWestGymFest.com

Since Shawn’s at camp, let’s promote her game. That way, she won’t need to. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Link it on Facebook.

… Personally I think the new Xbox with Kinect looks better. Wii without the Wiimote.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Will Kinect work in the gym itself, one day?

Makarena Pinto Adamse from Chile took the Bronze on Vault at DTB.

She did great in Stuttgart, as well. Just one of the many, many gymnasts from Latin America challenging on the world scene. It’s not only Brazil any longer.

Yet, aside from Brazil, gymnasts from Latin American are still not getting the attention they deserve, .

Gymnasia Latina … “is a project which opens the doors to Latin American gymnastics community to bring the best information on all your events such as news, events, results, interviews, gymnasts, technical and judges.”

In a magazine type format, it covers Artistic, Trampoline, Rhythmic and more. Facebook and Twitter links.

If you have a product to market in the Spanish speaking gymnastics world, the site offers FREE banner posting, at least for now.

Check it out in Spanish at gimnasialatina.com. Or via Google translate.

I’ll be running a MAG and WAG L2 Technical in Prince George, northern B.C., December 19-23, 2010. The L2 in Vancouver over the same dates is already full.

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Korea stops Chinese gold domination at Asian Games

That’s the headline on Albert’s report on day 2 of event finals.

Guangzhou, China – Chinese gymnasts were close to sweep all the gold medals at 2010 Asian Games but they only won the silver on men’s vault. …

Beam
1 CHN SUI Lu 6.500 8.925 15.425
2 CHN DENG Linlin 6.600 8.600 15.200
3 UZB GALIULINA Luiza 5.800 8.550 14.350

Floor (weak final)
1 CHN SUI Lu 5.900 8.800 14.700
2 JPN YAMAGISHI Mai 5.300 8.325 13.625
3 KOR JO Hyun Joo 5.600 7.850 13.450

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Men’s Finals
Vault
1 KOR YANG Hak Seon 16.400
7.000 9.400 16.400
7.000 9.400 16.400
2 CHN FENG Zhe 15.850
6.200 9.325 15.525
7.000 9.175 16.175
3 KAZ VALIYEV Stanislav 15.800
7.000 9.100 0.100 16.000
6.600 9.000 15.600

P Bars
1 CHN FENG Zhe 6.800 8.850 15.650
2 UZB FOKIN Anton 6.500 8.850 15.350
3 KAZ VALEYEV Ildar 6.900 8.400 15.300

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H Bar
1 CHN ZHANG Chenglong 7.500 8.725 16.225
2 JPN KUWAHARA Shun 7.000 8.725 15.725
3 CHN TENG Haibin 6.600 8.850 15.450

Commentary and full results on THE ALL AROUND

related – FIG – Yang, China prevail as artistic events conclude in Guangzhou