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The Coaching Association of Canada:

… Chevrolet Making Dreams Possible Club Coaching Grants are available once again!

If your club is interested in providing coach education opportunities, you should know that this fall another 50+ $2,000 grants will be awarded to community sport clubs across the country for coach training and development. The application deadline is September 27, 2010.

Apply now and make dreams possible in your community – visit www.coach.ca/makingdreamspossible for more information and to submit an application today!

A number of trampoline and gymnastics clubs got the grant last round.

This week I’m working with coaches preparing kids for this regional meet, held every 4yrs, hosted in Kamloops, Aug 10-14, 2011. That’s the small town that did such a fantastic job hosting Nationals 2010.

There’s not much posted yet on the official gymnastics page.

WAG is CPP Level 5 rules. MAG: National Youth rules. Age between 11 – 18 years as of December 31, 2011.

UPDATE: Gymnastics Examiner commentary.

Coming up 11-12 September.

Looks interesting. Especially as a first look at gymnasts on the come back trail.

Olympic Floor Champ Sandra Izbasa will be there. She and Romanian teammates Porgras and Chelaru won’t do the all-around, though.

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Couch Gymnast is also getting excited about:

Yang Yilin- still trying to find her way back
Wu Liufang- a multi-world cup medallist this year alone
Ariella Kaeslin- who has been dealing with some sort of prolonged illness for the past couple of months.
Cheong See Teng- who just missed out on a floor medal at the Pac Rims earlier this year.
Jessica Gil Ortiz- fresh off a vault bronze at Pan Ams
Dorina Bozcogo- Hungarian National Champion

MAG and WAG from more than 38 countries have registered.

A bit of everything, including parkour.

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Kristina is leaving the Le Reve show in Vegas, moving to the City of the Angels.

(via Greg Marsden on Facebook)

Ireland has been limited in gymnastics development due to a lack of facilities.

But things are improving.

Read an interview with an American coach at Renmore Gymnastics in Galway.

… This year we won 77 medals nationally which can be attributed in part to our fantastic new facility. Before, our most advanced kids could only train 9 hours a week at the very most. Now that we have our own gym though, they can train 15+ hours a week which is making a huge difference. Being from America, I still find it hard to digest that a lot of training hours isn’t normal here, but we’re working on introducing the idea …

Renmore Gymnastics, Ireland – Interview with Ariel Edesses

Renmore has a YouTube channel.

It’s inspiring to see how dedicated can be very young girls.

In addition to being co-owner and head coach of Texas Dreams Gymnastics, Chris Burdette is also a popular lecturer.

Over the past few years, Chris has traveled the country giving a lecture called “Raw Ambition” and was nice enough to share the videos with us here at gymnastike. The 4 videos will be featured on a weekly basis on gymnastike …

Click PLAY or watch Part 1 of 4 on Gymnastike. (7min 11sec)

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Chris explains the inspiration behind his unique documentary on Gymnastike.

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Summer is ending …

Thanks Ruth.

Good news, so far, from El Wapo Sanchez on Facebook:

Just wanted to touch base and give you an update on Cal Gymnastics. Tim McNeil was hired as the head coach two weeks ago and Colin Christ is the assistant. This is very good news!!!

Tim has been in touch with Cal Gymnastics Forever and is excited to work with us. We reached our goal of 100k in fundraising for 2012 and beyond. Our goal now is to focus on the short term with events and fundraising activities along with donations for 2011.

The chancellor has delayed his decision on how to combat the budget problem until the end of September. Keep your fingers crossed. Thanks for your continued support and Go Bears …

related – Former Cal Great Tim McNeill Named Men’s Gymnastics Coach

That’s the rumoured big new skill she’s been training.

… Leave a comment if you can confirm.

She’s been working hard according to Twitter, reducing the number of these scrums:

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