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This is the 5th year that the Banff Mountain Film Festival has sent a mini-festival of their best climbing films on the road.

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Ueli Steck, Paul Robinson, Daniel Woods, Lisa Rands, Dean Potter, Peter Croft, Chris Sharma, Cedar Wright, …

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1954 — Agnes Keleti (Hungary)
1958 — Larissa Latynina (USSR)
1962 — Irina Pervushina (USSR)
1966 — Natalia Kuchinskaya (USSR)
1970 — Karin Janz (East Germany)
1974 — Annelore Zinke (East Germany)
1978 — Marcia Frederick (USA)
1979 — Ma Yanhong (China) and Maxi Gnauck (East Germany)
1981 — Maxi Gnauck (East Germany)
1983 — Maxi Gnauck (East Germany
1985 — Gabriele Fahnrich (East Germany)
1987 — Doerte Thuemmler (East Germany) and Daniela Silivas (Romania)
1989 — Fan Di (China) and Daniela Silivas (Romania)
1991 — Kim Gwang-Suk (North Korea)
1992 — Lavinia Milosovici (Romania)
1993 — Shannon Miller (USA)
1994 — Luo Li (China)
1995 – Svetlana Khorkina (Russia)
1996 – Svetlana Khorkina (Russia) and Elena Piskun (Belarus)
1997 – Svetlana Khorkina (Russia)
1999 – Svetlana Khorkina (Russia)
2001 — Svetlana Khorkina (Russia)
2002 — Courtney Kupets (USA)
2003 — Hollie Vise (USA) and Chellsie Memmel (USA)
2005 — Anastasia Liukin (USA)
2006 – Elizabeth Tweddle (Great Britain
2007 — Ksenia Semenova (Russia)
2009 — He Kexin (China)

Michael T. Jones has set up a video training site for WAG.

It shows drills using an animated gymnast. Interesting concept.

Check it out for yourself – GymnastTraining.org

And leave a comment if you have an opinion. If it works, many coaches could use similar software to share their favourite drills online.

(via Gymnastics the Great)

Nicole Cooper has a site called Gymnastics the Great:

For All The: Gymnastics, Gymnast, Coaches, Judges, Gyms, Skills, Drills, Handstands, Cartwheels, Splits, Leaps, Flips, Rolls, Jumps, Twists, Falls, Breaks, Bruises, Lessons, and Beauty

Browsing the archives there are a number of posts on injury prevention and the benefits of gymnastics.

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Gymnastics the Great

Articles are available free online in PDF format.

vol.2, num.3, 2010 – Ivan Cuk – editor

Lauren A. Burt, Geraldine A. Naughton, Dean G. Higham and Raul Landeo
TRAINING LOAD IN PRE-PUBERTAL FEMALE ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

Maja Bucar Pajek, Ivan Cuk, Marjeta Kovac and Barbara Jakše
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GYMNASTICS CURRICULUM IN THE THIRD CYCLE OF BASIC SCHOOL IN SLOVENIA

Lurdes Ávila-Carvalho, Maria da Luz Palomero, Eunice Lebre
APPARATUS DIFFICULTY IN GROUPS ROUTINES OF ELITE RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS AT THE PORTIMÃO 2009 WORLD CUP SERIES

Thomas Heinen, Pia Vinken in Patrick Ölsberg
MANUAL GUIDANCE IN GYMNASTICS: A CASE STUDY

Ivan Cuk and Warwick Forbes
HOW APPARATUS DIFFICULTY SCORES AFFECT ALL AROUND RESULTS IN MENS ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

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Word from Commonwealth Games in Delhi is that all is well.

Canadian coach Elizabeth Brubaker says “Things are awesome here!!”.

Despite the furor (“athlete housing not fit for humans”) in advance of the Games, so far as I can determine, only 1 gymnast dropped out of the meet voluntarily – Adam Cox of Scotland.

That’s him on the right, winning a Bronze medal on H Bar at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. A National hero.

Why would Adam give up a couple of weeks before his 3rd Commonwealth Games?

… coach Tan Jia En was made redundant by Scottish Gymnastics last week from his post as national coach and Adam Cox, a gold medal hope in the high bar, announced he would not be heading to India in protest….

… (Adam) said, “I wasn’t prepared to go without him. Training had been going really well and there was a chance I was going to medal. To me it was out of the blue and I’m really upset not to be going. It had to be Tan, at this stage I would not feel safe going to the Games without him.”

The 23-year-old, who has trained with Tan for 13 years, added, “That is me officially retired now. It is a shame this is how I’m going to finish but I don’t really want anything else to do with the association.”…

Gymnast quits in protest as coach is axed

Herald Scotland:

… Anglo Scots Daniel Keating (a world and European medallist) and Daniel Purves, members of the Great Britain team at the world championships, which has caused them to be unavailable for Delhi, are reported to have said they have no interest in competing for Scotland in future, if Tan is out of the frame….

Scottish Gymnastics axe top coach on eve of Delhi Games

… could Scottish Gymnastics have bolloxed this any worse?

… Scottish Gymnastics chief executive Catriona O’Shea then asked him to continue as coach to the Delhi team, offering him £250 per day. …

Coach Tan declined the money. Devastated.

… The other male gymnast in the Scottish squad, Ryan McKee, will now head to the games with his club coach, Marius Gherman….

press release response from Scottish Gymnastics
(Sept. 22nd)

If you’ve an opinion, don’t leave a comment … Email info@scottishgymnastics.org, instead. Tell Catriona O’Shea what you think of the decision.

I did.

Their most recent initiative:

… Woodward U will offer a boarding program at the Woodward West campus in Tehachapi, California.

The Woodward U programs will ultimately include a winter tutorial program at Woodward Copper in Colorado; a semester-abroad program will provide students an opportunity to study at Woodward Beijing; and Woodward Everywhere will allow students to take Woodward U courses remotely with periodic visits to Woodward facilities to ensure a tie-in to The Woodward Family and Woodward U community.

Woodward U is now accepting applications. Whether you are an aspiring BMX rider, Snowboarder, Skateboarder, Photographer, Film-maker, Musician, Artist or someone interested in all of these things, Woodward U is the place to refine your skills while getting a high quality college-prep education. …

For more information about Woodward U, please visit woodwardu.com or call 661-750-2126.

Woodward

No mention of Gymnastics or other acrobatic sports. But there’s no reason why those athletes could not apply. I’m assuming it will be made up of mostly High School age kids.

Patience is man’s greatest virtue
Or so the saying goes,
A gymnast must have said it,
For a gymnast surely knows.

That in this funny sport of ours
Discouragement runs high,
And at times the very best
Will find the virtue’s passed her by.

When hands are ripped and throbbing
And every muscle sore
Can a gymnast still have patience
To limp back in for more.

Can you admit you’re frightened
Yet not give into fears
Can you conquer pain, frustrations
And often even tears.

When someone else does something
You’ve tried so long to do
Can you feel really glad for her
And not just pity you.

When you’ve lost old moves
You used to do
And progress seems so slow
Can you still have faith in better days
And not feel so sad and low.

And when success seems so far away
Your efforts all in vain
Can you force yourself to wear a smile
And disregard the pain.

If despite these tribulations
You can say, “I won’t give in”
Someday you will discover
That it’s now your turn to WIN

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Watch a video edited to this poem.

more gymnastics poetry

A test.

What happens when non-Facebook members try to click through to the latest Spanny Tampson montage – Presenting the lovely 2010 potential FX ladies! … on Facebook.

A most interesting interview:

… 2010 U.S. World team members Jonathan Horton, Danell Leyva, Chris Brooks, Chris Cameron, Brandon Wynn and Steven Legendre answered questions in a media teleconference call this afternoon. …

Gymnastics Examiner – Teleconference call with the U.S. men’s World team: Notes and quotes

Sounds good. National Team Coordinator Kevin Mazeika and Jon Horton both feel the USA can be on the podium at Worlds. The main rivals: China and Japan.

They have depth. The Juniors are fantastic. … Consistency is the main question mark, for me. Young gymnasts can sometimes get over-excited under pressure.

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Add Paul Hamm next year … and this could be the best American team ever.