Directed by Chase Armitage, one of the best edited parkour video I’ve ever seen.
Free Running, Parkour, Martial Arts and Acrobatic stunt team.
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Mattie Larson returned to her home club, AOGC, after a post-Worlds break. (… I shouldn’t believe everything I read on the internet.) Still awaiting her decision on whether or not to report to UCLA for January.
Confirmed: Peng Peng Lee signed a letter of intent with UCLA. Here are 12 new College gymnasts we’ll be cheering this season.
Russia’s Tatiana Nabieva dominated the second day of competition at the Elite Gym Massilia, winning the all-around, vault and uneven bars.
… And I thought we’d never see Navieva compete again for Russia, after this one last scheduled meet. Wrong am I.
THE ALL AROUND has added a Weekly Round-up feature. Check a sample from 8-14 November 2010. Essential, since that multi-blogger site posts so much content that I can’t keep up.
I’ve been following the depressing court case in Northern Australia.
… A GYMNASTICS organisation has been fined $70,000 for breaching safety obligations which led to the death of a teenager.
Townsville Gymnastics was charged with breaching the Workplace Health and Safety Act after gymnast Michelle Maitland, 19, fell and hit her head on the floor while practising at the Aitkenvale gym in June last year.
Ms Maitland fell and hit her head on a piece of concrete not covered by a safety mat. She died in hospital the following day. …
Gymnastics Townsville “acknowledges the fine imposed by the industrial Magistrate in Townsville earlier today. We are devastated that the life of a young woman has been tragically cut short”.
It’s in the hands of lawyers, however. The club will appeal.
The only upside is the warning we all can take from Michelle’s death. Be sure there’s no way anyone can reach concrete from any trampoline device in your gym.
This is the Champions Trophy, an international all-around invitational for men held Sunday 15th.
The new British co-champion, only age-20, bested the #2 and #3 all-arounders from Worlds, … and some other guys.
1. Daniel Purvis (GBR) 88,300
2. Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR) 87,525
3. Maxim Deviatovski (RUS) 87,450
4. Eugen Spiridornov (GER) 86,800
5. Philipp Boy (GER) 86,550
6. Jonathan Horton (USA) 85,625
There are a couple dozen men in the world who could score 90+ … if they hit.
This is the third year for the Champions Trophy, and has been heralded as one of the few legitimate All Around competitions outside of World Championships, Olympics, and continental championships.
Next year it becomes part of the FIG’s newly re-organised World Cup series, featuring All Around competitions in Jacksonville, Glasgow, and Tokyo. It remains to be seen if the seemingly strict participation rules of these events will produce more high-level competitions, or further reduce the importance of the All Around.
Purvis
This meet was hosted in conjunction with the DTB World Cup for men and women. FIG has highlights and links to results – Terrific atmosphere takes Stuttgart
The World Cup season comes to an end in Glasgow, November 19–20.
Is Facebook getting less appealing? … Do you have too many friends, for example?
Unfriend people you don’t really know on November 17th.
… Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel believes Facebook is cheapening the meaning of friendship.
“NUD is the international day when all Facebook users shall protect the sacred nature of friendship by cutting out any ‘friend fat’ on their pages occupied by people who are not truly their friends,” …
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