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CoverGirl Classic July 24 in Chicago.

VISA Championships Aug. 10-14 in Hartford, Conn.

CoverGirl is the last qualifier for VISA Championships. USAG posted the 75 Junior and Senior gymnasts expected to compete. Texas has by far the most competitors of any state.

Don’t be surprised if some of the big names already qualified to VISA’s withdraw. They won’t compete if not ready.

In addition, the Challenge Division competition, featuring up-and-coming gymnasts goes on Friday, July 23 and Sunday, July 25 in Chicago. Looks like a great weekend!

Gymnastics Examiner has a terrific CoverGirl preview.

Gymnastike will be in Chicago. Click through for videos of most of the competitors.

The Senior division is scheduled to be aired live on Universal Sports at 7pm on July 24th.

2008 Olympian Samantha Peszek shares her top ten reason why kids should get involved in gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The Pythons impressed at the Calgary Stampede Prelude Parade on Friday, July 9th!

Here’s Jenni Chong flying. Photos posted by Kimberly Blais on Facebook.

Personally, I think they should cut Dan.

The Pythons train out of Altadore Gymnastics in Calgary.

by site editor Rick McCharles

Here’s a glimpse of training at a 4 day camp in St. John’s, Newfoundland July 5-8, 2010.

Boys age eligible for Canada Winter Games 2011 and 2015 were invited.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube .

That’s Cygnus Gymnastics, a terrific facility located above and over-looking a large grocery store.

If interested, visit the home page of the camp for more information.

Mary Lee posted a series of 7 videos from her Tuesday night live online presentation for USA Project 2012 – Tumbling complex for floor.

Click PLAY or watch video #1 on YouTube.

Click through to Mary Lee Tracy’s YouTube channel to watch the additional videos.

WAG Head Coach Peggy Liddick:

… Australia is determined to defend its team title from the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she said.

“We’re going out to win the Commonwealth Games, and I’m going to put my best team out there,” …

International Gymnast

Gutsy call.

It’s going to be tough for the 5 girls competing in Delhi to fly on to World Championships in Rotterdam for World’s. Two major competitions back-to-back.

England will not be sending their top gymnasts, instead staying focused on World’s.

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The Australian Championships are in progress:

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Beijing Olympian Georgia Bonora has taken out her first national all-around crown and in doing so staked her claim for Commonwealth Games selection at the 2010 Australian Women’s Gymnastics Championships in Perth tonight. …

Doubling as the selection trials for both the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2010 FIG World Championships – the first qualifying event for the London 2012 Olympics –Australia’s stars are not only vying for national titles but the opportunity to wear the green and gold.

Picking up from where she left off last night, Bonora put in another steady performance at Challenge Stadium, tallying 55.050 for a combined score of 109.375, to defeat Mary-Anne Monckton (104.00) and fellow Beijing Olympian Shona Morgan (103.225). …

Bonora was clearly ecstatic yet surprised by her new national title.

“It feels so strange. I never thought I’d be a national champion. I never thought I was that girl,” said Bonora

“I knew some of our strongest girls weren’t competing but it was still a surprise. I wasn’t really focussed on the results, I just wanted to stay on the apparatus.

“I didn’t compete to the best of my ability out there but I’m still improving. I have a lot of upgrades to add on vault and floor, and I need to clean up my bars and beam.

“It would be so exciting to go to the Commonwealth Games.” …

read more – Gymnastics Australia

more information and results linked from the event page

Daniel Geri 09 July at 19:22
Dear Friends and Supporters,

The Cal Gymnastics Forever Foundation will be meeting with the Chancellor of UC Berkeley NEXT WEDNESDAY, JULY 14TH. We will be submitting our Business Plan for financial viability, including ALL your letters and pledges.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR LETTERS AND YOUR PLEDGES NOW so that your voice will be heard. Pledges will only be collected after the University guarantees our program beyond the 2011 season.

We have made it easier to submit your letters, and even designed an ONLINE auto-create letter system so all you have to do is enter your name and contact information and click a button! It will take you LESS THAN 3 MINUTES!

just go to http://www.calgymnasticsforever.com/

We have already received 25% of our annual operating budget and over 100 letters, but there are 1200 of us in this Facebook group alone!

If you truly support Cal Gymnastics, now is the time to act.

Thanks to all who have already submitted, and to all of you for your ongoing support,

Sincerely,
The Cal Gymnastics Forever Foundation

Wayne Goldsmith from Australia overstates, … a little.

But he’s got some very good points in an article on Sports Coaching Brain:

1. We base coach education programs on sports science.

2. We create athlete development pathways but then do not align the coach development pathway to them.

3. We believe that competency based training is the new messiah.

4. We run workshops and conferences that are largely based on sports science, gimmicks, fads and short cuts.

5. We give token attention to mentoring programs.

6. We teach all coaches the same outdated periodization processes.

7. We spend most of the alloted time teaching “what” to do and not focus on “how” and “why”

8. We create courses which do not reflect where the sport is going -i.e. we present course information which is based on what worked in the distant past.

9. We allow people to present the courses without insisting their teaching, education and communication skills are the best in the sport.

His best point, I feel, is the last:

10. We continue to present courses which are classroom based.

How many goals are scored in a classroom? How many world records are broken in a Board room? How many touchdowns are scored in a training room? Why do we insist on making coach education classroom based?

He’s right. From now on I’ll do every presentation possible inside the gym, alongside the apparatus we are discussing.

Coach education – Ten Dumb Things we do and call it Coach Education

Active learning.

(via Brett MacAulay on Facebook)

Gymnastike:

Routine of the Week for July 5th comes from the final National Elite Qualifier of the summer. Lizzy LeDuc waited until the last meet to qualify for the summer competitions and after a fall on bars it was down to her final event to secure herself a spot at this summer’s elite Championships.

She unveiled a difficulty-packed routine with poise and earned a solid 14.85, the highest score of the meet for both juniors and seniors. She totaled a 53.20 in the all around, qualifying for the 2010 US Championships. July 3, 2010

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

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Good luck at VISA Championships, Lizzy!

You know this song.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.