Pan-Am Gymnastics Championships

Team USA took the gold medal convincingly over Canada and Brazil, tied with 343.95 each

The top seven teams, which also included Columbia, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Argentina, advance to the 2011 Pan Am Games, which will also be held in Guadalajara.

Inside Gymnastics

Amanda Turner has a write-up on IG:

Mexico’s Daniel Corral won the all-around title over Glen Ishino (U.S.) and Jorge Hugo Giraldo (Colombia) as the Pan American Gymnastics Championships began Thursday in Guadalajara, Mexico.

… The 20-year-old Corral (88.75) won the all-around gold over Ishino (88.15) and Colombian Olympian Jorge Hugo Giraldo (87.45). …

read more and get full results – U.S. Men, Corral Win Pan Am Championships

Second place Team Canada:

From the Facebook album: Profile pictures by Jayd Lukenchuk

Chicas compete manana.

Jessica Lopez – Bars training

Everyone loves Jessica Lopez from Venezuela.

Now finished her NCAA gymnastics career at the University of Denver, she keeps on getting better.

Click PLAY to watch some recent Bar training from SaltoCafe. Or watch it on YouTube.

(via Couch Gymnast)

Coach Nilson Savage believes she could be top 10 at World’s 2010. She’s competing at Pan-Ams this weekend.

best MAG gymnastics manuals

Shout out to the ancient Canadian Men’s Artistic Gymnastics coaching manuals.

   

• Level 2 Manual – CAD$75
• Level 3 Manual – CAD$75

Though not updated for years, these are still the best English language coaching manuals. The Rings, Pommel and Parallel Bar chapters are particularly strong.

Planning, Biomechanics and Physical Preparation content is good, too.

Leave a comment if you’ve other MAG coaching manuals you still use.

2010 Men’s Gymnastics video

Best MAG edit in a long, long time. Don’t miss this one.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (8min 38sec)

That’s from RedNasvw who lives in Rotterdam.

Men’s gymnastics is still evolving. It’s exciting. It’s amazing. … Much more so than WAG.

(via Michael Outram)

tumbling at Texas Dreams

Don’t pound if you really don’t have to …

… Texas Dreams elite coach Chris Burdette explains a set up they use to work tumbling on their low impact days. They have an air track set up on an incline which allows them to get numerous tumbling repetitions with just a back handspring entry.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

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

Advanced gymnasts like this are better off on the Air Floor, I’d say.

Variations of this inflatable apparatus are available from TumblTrak.

More reps, less stress.

England gymnasts to Commonwealth Games

Marissa King
Imogen Cairns
Laura Edwards
Rebecca Wing
Jocelyn Hunt

Coaches
Elizabeth Kincaid
Michele Walduck

Reiss Beckford
Luke Folwell
Danny Lawrence
Max Whitlock
Steven Jehu

Coaches
Scott Hann
Paul Hall

link – British Gymnastics

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 14: Marissa King of Great Britain competes in the balance beam event during the second day of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 at O2 Arena on October 14, 2009 in London, England. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

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Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will send gymnasts, as well.

Quebecker: Worlds Team: Beth Tweddle, Becky Downie, Hannah Whelan, Danusia Francis, Jennifer Pinches and Nicole Hibbert.

air flare master – Nazim

Nazim was one of early masters. He’s so good the bad boyz criticize him as being “too clean”.

Amazing stuff. This edit is a bit repetitions, though.

You also might want to turn down the volume before you click PLAY … or watch him on YouTube.

related – How to Air Flare

Thanks bboysistou who likes best in 2010 bboy punisher (France) and bboy the end.

Here’s the end from Korea in 2010 on YouTube. Much more variety. Look for the reverse direction flares!

Note that gymnasts can do almost none of these moves.

Pan-Am Gymnastics Champs

The U.S. women spell out TEAM at their hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico as they prepare for the Pan American Championships this weekend.

From the Facebook album: Wall Photos by USA Gymnastics

What’s the best link for that meet?

Fotheringham – 1st wheelchair double back

Recall Aaron Fotheringham, the kid from Vegas who did back salto in a wheelchair at Woodward?

I was scared for him that time, back in 2006.

Now … terrified

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… On August 26, Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham became the first person in a wheelchair to land a double backflip. …

… I’ve also been working on a front flip. I’m gonna have to say that one’s scarier than the back flip. In the front flip, you’re trying to get around without your head digging into the ground. …

Outside

If Aaron keeps upping the difficulty, he’s going to get badly hurt. That’s obvious.