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If you’ve not yet had the chance to read the new Biomechanics text, subscribe to his new YouTube Channel.

Dr. Gerald George, author of the newly-released “Championship Gymnastics,” presented four lectures at the Gymnastics Association of Texas (GAT) meetings last week in Austin, TX.

Two videos have been posted on our new “Gymnastics Techniques” YouTube Channel. Each of these is a segment of his presentations. Click on the links below to view:

Basic Principles for Refining Gymnastics Movement: 1 – Amplitude

Basic Principles for Refining Gymnastics Movement: 2 – Closure

… you will see several new videos added in the next few days.

… Last season, Georgia’s poor performances on the road led to the Gym Dogs failing to advance to the NCAA national meet for the first time in 27 years. …

This season, coach Jay Clark will begin meet simulations possibly as early as the first day. …

Georgia will have a youth-heavy roster with just two seniors (Hilary Mauro, Cassidy McComb) and three juniors (Kat Ding, Mariel Box, Nuccio) out of the 13 Gym Dogs. …

Online Athens

I dunno.

Most pundits will count Georgia out until they prove themselves.

… NOTEWORTHY: Georgia will begin practice without much of its freshman class. Cat Hires is out for at least 5-6 weeks with a broken foot. Bekah Bennetts had offseason ankle surgery and is out indefinitely. Lindsay Cheek will join the team and be eligible to compete in January after she graduates early from Oconee County High School. The seniors, juniors and sophomores reported to conditioning camp healthy and should be ready to go today.

(via sohalia on College Gymnastics Board)

Couch Gymnast reposted a hilarious tweet from Alicia en route to National Team training camp at Karoli’s ranch:

“Just landed in Houston- 9 workouts until freedom“

The US girls are in the FIRST OF TWO selection/verification camps in what is always a breathtaking and seemingly agonising selection process …

Couch Gymnast

UCLA’s 2010 NCAA Championship Gymnastics and Softball teams traveled to Washington DC along with over 30 other NCAA Championship squads for a White House ceremony honoring … teams and student-athletes ….

UCLA senior gymnast Allison Taylor documented the Bruins’ final day in Washington DC on UCLAbruins.com.

You can click through to read that. Or simply watch the highlight, Anna Li doing backward handsprings at the Whitehouse on YouTube.

(via Gymnastics Examiner Week in Review)

Seems Youna has not recovered quickly enough from the knee injury suffered on Bars in Albertville.

… A year ago, Youna Dufournet was en route to London, the world championships and a bronze medal on vault. Today, the worlds seem far to the gymnast …. Not sufficiently recovered from her left knee surgery, she had to withdraw from the selection test, held Saturday evening at Insep …

Google Translate – La Nouvelle Republique

This is what you get for being a famous media celebrity. Controversy.

… His autobiography goes on sale in Germany on September 15 and excerpts were published in the country’s biggest tabloid last week. They offered readers an unexpected glimpse at Hambüchen’s most private moments, including a description of him losing his virginity as well as his mother walking in on him having sex with a girl friend.

While Hambüchen himself has said he is proud of the book, the German gymnastics community is caught up in a mixture of ridicule, shock and disbelief. The federation has no official position on the book but Hambüchen’s team mates sounded off to the media. “Everybody I have spoken to about it thinks it’s just ridiculous,” Philipp Boy told newsagency dpa. European floor champion Matthias Fahrig told Mitteldeutsche Zeitung that he wasn’t sure that “somebody really needs to write down their whole life at only 22.” …

The All Around – Hambüchen Injured, Status for Worlds Uncertain

… The reigning European all-around champion was limited to four events (pommel horse, rings, parallel bars and high bar) at the German national championships last weekend. …

Gymnastike Technique Tuesday:

… OU gymnast David Finning shows us a drill he does on trampoline to help with the timing of the regrasp of a kovacs on high bar.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://videoplayer.flocasts.org/player.swf

I’ve not yet seen it, but this show is getting good buzz.

TOTEM traces the fascinating journey of the human species from its original amphibian state to its ultimate desire to fly. The characters evolve on a stage evoking a giant turtle, the symbol of origin for many ancient civilizations.

Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.

TOTEM – home page and upcoming shows

Congratulations!

And welcome Athena Louise Fong.

As you can see, Athena’s already learning inversion.

The gymnasts at G.A.G.E. are going to be baby sitting soon.

(via email from Al Fong)

Many are happy and happily surprised that the Floor champion from Romania actually made a comeback, winning Floor at the World Cup last weekend.

But is this truly a good Floor routine?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I think not. It’s hard to say what’s more depressing in 2010: Women’s Floor or Men’s Horizontal Bar. Both are dreadful, far less impressive than the best routines of 2004 and earlier.

I blame the F.I.G. rules on those apparatus.

I’ve never been a fan of Sandra’s Floor. But, to be fair, I expect it will improve. She’s only been cleared for full routines recently.