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Much buzz on the interwebs after McKayla Maroney’s big vaults at Pan-Am Championships this weekend.

Click PLAY or watch them on YouTube.

She’s young. Improving. If she adds a full twist to the second vault (Cheng) she’d be easily the top U.S. vaulter over Alicia and other American contenders.

Note that she moved this year from GymMax to All Olympia Gymnastics Center.

(via Couch Gymnast and Gymtruthteller)

Especially on the women’s side.

The medal table:

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Canada had a pretty good meet. … I expected Brazil to be better than this.

competition home page

It’s all over in Mexico. Results and commentary coming in …

BEAM
1 USA VEGA Sabrina 5.9 8.6000 14.5000
2 VEN LOPEZ Jessica 5.6 8.6000 14.2000
3 USA FINNEGAN Sarah 5.5 8.6500 14.1500

FLOOR
1 USA MARONEY Mckayla 5.7 8.5250 14.2250
2 USA ROSS Kyla 5.6 8.4750 14.0750
3 CAN VACULIK K. 5.5 8.4750 13.9750

VAULT
GONZALEZ Sepul CHI 16.0120
SASAKI Junior BRA 15.9500
RIVERA Luis PUR 15.8500

P BARS
CORRAL BARRON MEX 14.9250
IKEDA Ken CAN 14.8250
GIRALDO Lopez 14.7750

H BAR
BUSCAGLIA A. USA 15.4750
FUENTES Jose L. VEN 14.9000
HAAGENSEN W. USA 14.8000

From the album: Tercer día de competencias, finales por aparatos by Guadalajara 2011

Different ways to use safety straps in the gym. Good stuff.

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Nick has more videos on his amelieblanton YouTube channel.

In Illinois the Indianapolis area.

… co-founder of the Jaycie Phelps Athletic Center, which is holding a grand opening from noon-5 p.m. Sunday …

Phelps, 30, was a member of the Magnificent Seven that won the United States’ first Olympic team gold medal in women’s gymnastics at Atlanta in 1996. …

Her 25,000-square-foot multisport facility will feature instruction for youths in baseball, softball, gymnastics and cheer tumbling …

Phelps owns the facility with her father, Jack, a baseball instructor, and gymnastics coach Dave Marus, formerly coach of Metroplex Dallas …

IndyStar – Phelps would like to send a gymnast to where she’s been

From the Facebook album: Gym Almost Done by Jaycie Phelps Athletic Center

If you’ve followed Gymnastics Coaching for years, you’ll remember many times it was down.

My excuse … IT WAS HACKED.

Seems that most website hosts, inexpensive and costly, are vulnerable to hackers. It’s an arms race where the hosts win most of the battles, but not all.

When this one goes down Bluehost blames me. And offers help only reluctantly. I’ve learned to hate Bluehost though it’s supposed to be one of the best.

Solution … VaultPress

When Gymnastics Coaching goes down I simply DELETE the old site. And immediately restore from one of 11 redundent backups hosted by another company.

It’s being backed up in real time …

Not inexpensive at $15/month (BETA). But I feel it’s worth it.

I do wonder why Bluehost doesn’t offer the same thing.

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Will 3D video productions of Cirque du Soleil shows be HUGE?

… Obviously.

LOVE Head Coach Dan Niehaus told me the video shoot for his show looked pretty cool.

From the Facebook album: LOVE 3D Spot Shoot by The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil

Check a long thread on the topic on Cirque Tribune.

Men’s events

Floor exercise
1. Santiago Lopez Viana, Mexico, 15.125
2. Enrique Gonzalez Sepulveda, Chile, 15.075
3. Jacob Dalton, USA, 15.050
Other U.S. finish
5. Glen Ishino, USA, 14.900

Pommel horse
1. Glen Ishino, USA, 15.175
2. Jorge Peña Castiblanco, Colombia 14.775
3. Casey Sandy, Canada, 14.650
Other U.S. finish
6. Bryan Del Castillo, USA, 13.375

Still rings
1. Regulo Carmona, Venezuela, 15.575
2. Tommy Ramos, Puerto Rico, 15.225
3. Federico Molinari, Argentina, 15.100
U.S. finish
4. Wesley Haagensen, USA, 14.925

Women’s events

Vault
1. McKayla Maroney, USA, 15.387
2. Daniele Matias Hypolito, Brazil, 14.425
3. Jessica Gil Ortiz, Colombia, 14.125

Uneven bars
1. Gabrielle Douglas, USA, 14.225
2. Jessica Lopez, Venezuela, 14.150
3. Kristina Vaculik, Canada, 14.075
Other U.S. finish
6. Kyla Ross, USA, 13.350

USAG – USA wins three individual event gold medals at 2010 Pan American Championships

Very funny, Coach Jonathan.

I never try to decide whether or not a gymnast can continue after a … suspicious minor injury. Instead I assign some alternative exercises they like far, far less than work-out.