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.” …
After reading the high praise on Aunt Joyce, I had to check out the pre-Christmas Intrasquad.
I was keen to see what NCAA Floor Champion Brittani McCullough was doing this year. She ups the bar from her awesome routine of last season. Huge tumbling. Entertaining choreography.
YouTube does not do justice to College Floor. It’s not easy to tell from watching this what routines will SELL with an audience. McCullough‘s was by far my favourite routine LIVE last season. And it’s looking like she’s the routine to beat in 2011.
Bernard … is a series of animated shorts centered on the fictional polar bear and main character of the same name. It is a Korean-Spanish-French co-production.
Each three-minute episode focuses on the bear’s curiosity …
DISCLAIMER: Those appearing in this video are not necessarily of the gay persuasion, (not that there’s anything wrong with that), they just play one on TV…
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