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Longboarding is variety of skateboarding, a relatively modern sport—which originated as “sidewalk surfing” in the United States, particularly California—in the 1950s. …

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Where I live longboarding is the BIG THING for teenage boys. (We spent the weekend browsing Landyachtz.com and making our own Slide Gloves.)

Longboarding actually predates skateboarding, so we don’t know who invented the first.

It’s a far more interesting sport than skateboarding, I feel. And much easier for the average Joe, like me.

Dangerous? … YES.

Especially trying to stop if you go highspeed downhill.

Like many others, I was surprised at Canadian Championships 2010 to see Savona back in contention. She looked back in June as a lock for the Senior team to Rotterdam.

When interviewing her for Gymnastike, I found an upbeat, enthusiastic gregarious personality. Positive to be around.

JOHN CRUMLISH got an equally outgoing response – IG Interview: Jessica Savona

Click through to see what she has to say about her coaches, especially Alex Bard who’s been with her 12yrs.

I love this pic. Savona’s too excited even to stay focused for the team photo.

Preparing to compete in her first worlds, Canada’s Jessica Savona reflects on the struggles and successes she has experienced thus far, and reveals her strategy for reaching her international potential. Pictured: Savona … stands next to coach Yelena Davydova, 1980 Olympic champion, as Canada accepts the team silver at the 2010 Pan American Championships in Guadalajara.

If I was a College coach, I’d bump Savona high on my “to sign” list. She could lead a team.

Tickets are available now.

Visa Championships 2011 will be hosted in Saint Paul, Minn. Aug. 17-20th. Artistic at the Xcel Energy Center, rhythmic, trampoline and tumbling at Roy Wilkins Auditorium.

Tickets are available now.

HP Pavilion at San Jose, California, June 28-July 1. The USA Gymnastics National Congress and Trade Show will be staged at the San Jose McEnery Convention Cente.

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Results Individual All-around Final

Gold: KANAEVA Evgenia (RUS) – Total: 116.250
Silver: KONDAKOVA Daria (RUS) – Total: 113.825
Bronze: – Total: STANIOUTA Melitina (BLR) – Total: 110.350

She was quoted:

“I am very grateful to my coaches, who are constantly with me,” Kanaeva stated. “I am happy that I have not let my coach down. Now, I have to keep improving. I will rest for a couple of days and then start preparing for new tournaments. I made some mistakes at the beginning of the championships, but the way I see it I am not a robot. It only means that I didn’t train hard enough. But during the Final I didn’t let myself think about my mistakes, I was neither scared nor nervous. I just focused on doing one element after another. I am glad that I was the one to finish off the event.”

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Daria Kondakova won the Longines Prize for Elegance.

Bloggers can’t win.

If they say something cryptic, ironic or sarcastic … some reader won’t get it. … There’s a time wasting exchange in the comments.

But here’s what you get if you explain every video, post or story for slow people …

… ya can’t please everyone, so ya got to please yourself …

Thanks Jason.

StickItMedia posted an interview with the up-and-coming American gymnast who finished 9th at his first VISA Senior Championships this year.

The most interesting parts for me had to do with his coach:

Silverstein: Next year, I do not plan to compete NCAA. I really put a lot of thought into my decision about this. And I believe that my gymnastics can benefit more from staying with my coach Genadi Shub, and staying at my local gym for now, rather than going to an NCAA program. …

Silverstein: One of my biggest role models would have to be my coach Genadi. I had first walked into the gym a week before my tenth birthday, never doing serious gymnastics before. Genadi has put so much work and time into me, more then I could have ever asked. He never accepts anything less than my best inside and outside of the gym. I’ve learned so much from Genadi whether it was gymnastics- related or about life. Genadi’s acted as a second father to me and is a part of my family as far as I’m concerned. Genadi has been the most influential person in my gymnastics career hands down. …

read the rest – StickItMedia Exclusive Interview: Jesse Silverstein

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Genadi coaches Jesse at the U S Gymnastics Development Center in Mahwah, NJ.

Summer gymnastics camps in North America are finished for another season.

Here’s a flashback to some of the action at past Woodward West camps.

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See more videos like this on the SaltoCafe YouTube channel sponsored by Gibson’s.

Kiara Nowlin, Jenny Hansen, lots of Charlie Tamayo.

I might have to book a trip to Macao. This looks awesome.

It just opened.

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… The show was performed in a purpose-built theater with the so-called world’s largest commercial pool, and installation of 258 automated fountains and 8 elevators that make it possible to convert the aquatic stage to a solid floor. …

Amazing visual feast: “House of Dancing Water makes debut in Macao

Thanks Fred and Dana.

Again.

Her name is Corina Mihai. They wed in Vegas. She’s reported to be an entrepreneur. Online.

Marian’s love life has been a great topic of interest in the Romanian tabloids.

I hope Marian remembers to notify F.I.G. of the change in his marital status … Nevermind, that’s only when he unretires from competition.