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MissEducated is looking to produce a Social Networking and Cyber Bullying policy for her club.

In particular, she’s looking for a disciplne procedure if a complaint of cyber bullying is received.

Aside from obvious guidelines, what should the relationship be between adults (e.g. club coaches) and gymnasts on social networking sites like Facebook?

The big question: Should coaches friend gymnasts on Facebook?

… If so, should coaches friend both child and parent, when possible?

When I took over a club as Head Coach 2yrs-ago, the very first thing I did was to line-up the girls … and give them a speech about Facebook. It is a real issue. I’m surprised there have not been more Facebook horror stories.

I’m not so much worried about death threats, as this:

Please leave a comment if you know of any set of club guidelines available.

related – Mashable – Harvard Study Finds Teens Online Lack Ethics

148 Individual gymnasts representing 50 countries are competing at these championships with 38 nations participating in (my favourite) the Team competition. …

September 20-21: Rope and Hoop with Individual event Finals on September 21;
September 22-23: Ball and Ribbon competition with Individual event Finals for both on September 23;
September 24: Individual All-around Final;
September 25: Group All-around competition;
September 26: Group Apparatus Finals (5 Hoop, 3 Ribbon / 2 Ropes)

F.I.G. event home page

Russia should dominate, at home.

Our Olympic Floor Champion is back for sure.

She had a good weekend:

Sandra Izbasa, who a year ago days ago saw his career threatened due to a partial rupture of the Achilles tendon in his right leg, returned in force and has evolved delighted to three devices. Olympic champion ground was marked with 14.400 on vault, 14.800 on beam and 15.150 on the ground, declaring himself satisfied with her progress.

“It was very nice. The atmosphere was great. I am pleased with my progress …

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Click through to her blog for videos of each apparatus.

American Rebecca Bross vs Russian Aliya Mustafina. The two gymnasts most likely to win the 2010 World Gymnastics Championships.

Spanny Tampson:

… then there’s beam. Good old beam, who separates the winners from the losers. However, what if the two gymnasts in question are EXACTLY THE SAME on beam?

Take Bross and Mustafina. People argue that Bross has no artistry, while Musty is the pillar of Russian beauty. People marvel that Bross is the pinnacle of consistency, while Musty is hit or miss. Execution, form, fall, stick, BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Hasn’t anyone else noticed that they do essentially the same routine? …

Click PLAY or watch their Beam routine elements on YouTube.

I love the Big Fake Smile blog.

But these two routines are more dissimilar than identical.

Ana Porgras won the AA and Beam at the Romanian Championships this past weekend.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.

(via Fangymnastics)

This should sell bazillions of units for Christmas. ($30)

Click PLAY or watch the video trailer on YouTube.

… Graphics aren’t as good as I would have expected.

details on Amazon

(via Full Twist)

Aunt Joyce wrote up a super detailed assessment of the 10 time NCAA Champion team that failed to qualify to team finals last season.

I found it a bit optimistic.

… Expect the team to make it back to NCAAs and if they have a really good year, they could finish 4th, 5th or 6th. A 3rd place finish would likely be the best they could ever hope for.

Aunt Joyce

Pressure’s on second year Head Coach Jay Clark. It’s a long road back to the Whitehouse.

… but a fantastic comeback story, if they pull it off.

Georgia Bonora
Ashleigh Brennan
Emily Little (Spirit / WAIS)
Larissa Miller
Lauren Mitchell (College Park / WAIS)
Georgia Simpson (NDGC / WAIS)
Georgia Wheeler

Emma Dennis is the non-travelling reserve!

Coaches

Michelle DeHighden
John Hart
Tracey Penaluna

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Jay Thornton on American Gymnast explains it:

… 4 essentials that every gym owner or gym manager needs …

• Savings
• Education
• Earnings
• Growth

Click through to the videos page for details.

… To kick-off the launch of American Gymnast Premier, I’m giving away a FREE 1-year membership to the program – no strings attached! Just briefly state how winning this free membership would benefit your gymnastics and/or cheerleading program in the “comments” area of this blog post and we’ll select one lucky winner based on all the comments.

American Gymnast Premier will go live Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:00pm E.S.T. We’ll announce the winner of the 1-year free membership just prior to the program going live. Since the program will be brand new, and we want to make sure everything runs smoothly for our new AG Premier members, we are going to limit the number of subscribers to 100 members.

The program is available worldwide. But the contest is U.S.A. only.

Winner gets one year Premier level discounts on all purchases with American Gymnast (e.g. chalk), full access to Gymnastics on Demand, AG Premier Affiliate program, customized ‘shop’ page for their web site, and receive all internet marketing tutorials specific to gymnastics and cheerleading businesses.

Beatrice Gheorghisor attended the Romanian Championships this weekend, posting on her blog Gymnastics – No Ceiling.

Read Bea’s detailed commentary on the Romanian girls with forecasts on who will be selected for World Championships 2010:

… Ana Porgras is getting better and better but she is a very fragile gymnast. They said she was going to take things slowly and she will only compete on only 2 events at the Worlds. This will not happen. She keeps getting better scores on floor than Diana Chelaru (a supposed specialist), so she will do floor on the TF, there’s no doubt MOREOVER she keeps earning higher scores than Amelia Racea all around, so she will be used all around as well. It might be really sad to watch because at this pace she is not going to make it to 2011 Worlds …

Click PLAY or watch Ana’s Floor on YouTube.

Note the single step back into the corner for each tumbling pass, rather than the even uglier waddle back used by most girls. (Why don’t judges deduct that more?)

The Romanian women are looking much better at this stage of the quadrennial than expected. But with such a small pool of elite gymnasts, they need be very, very cautious.

After all, these World Championships are not important. The goal should be World’s 2011 and the Olympics.