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The Alberta Gymnastics Federation and the Recreational Gymnastics Committee are hosting the 4th annual REC Retreat August 27-29, 2010.

It’s an excellent event for Head Coaches, Rec supervisors and other coaches in a leadership position in their gyms.

Presenters include Leah Sieben, Sabrina Schilling, Earle Connor, Trish Brige, Norm Lewis and Tammy Noonan.

details and costs – Bulletin #1 2010 (PDF)

Shawn hits the shelf in October, just in time for Xmas.

… Zoo Entertainment, Inc. (ZOOE:OB) is set to release Shawn Johnson Gymnastics, the first game on Nintendo Wii dedicated to gymnastics – the game will also be released on DS and DSiWare.

Compatible with the Wii Balance Board, the game will offer a truly realistic experience in the following gymnastics events: floor exercise, vault, balance beam and uneven parallel bars. …

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It’s already listed on Amazon. ($40)

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How’s that return to training working out for Shawn, by the way?

Always interesting, here are a few of the stories that had escaped my own scrutiny … until I saw them linked from Gymnastics Examiner:

Slovenia gets serious about gymnastics: The nation is planning to build a national training center …

Beth Tweddle on Spellbound’s winning Britain’s Got Talent: “It’s great to have another area of gymnastics to raise the profile of the sport,” …

Death of an all-around gymnast: Olympic Sports News laments that there don’t seem to be any gymnasts (WAG) who can do it all anymore, and highlights Mo Huilan as one of the last …

Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year: The honor goes to Oklahoma senior Hollie Vise. …

Sho’s sacrifices: 2012 Olympic hopeful Sho Nakamori, on the mend from a torn ACL, needs help to maintain his training expenses. Nakamori, who helped Stanford win the NCAA team title in 2009, is looking to regain his spot on the U.S. team. Nakamori is being coached for free by 1996 Chinese Olympian Zhang Jinjing …

click through for links and details – The gymnastics week in review

I like how narrow they’ve made this pad for boys learning the infamous “killer”. … Giants lower to backward hipcircle.

That’s an important skill in the High Performance compulsories for boys in Canada.

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Coach Scott Rayment from Calgary Gymnastics Centre.

Update: That pad is home made. You can buy something similar from Carolina Gym Supply or GYMNOVA, to name just two companies.

Leave a comment if you’ve other recommended alternatives.

Posted by Alexis Olson, a graduate student at Texas A&M working on his PhD in mathematics.

I’m getting back into gymnastics after being retired for several years.

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Love those 1-arm chin-ups!

What a collection of rare release moves!

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I’d say the greatest leap forward was Shaposhnikova Yurchenko connecting Tkachev to Deltchev.

Requests?

Could MostepanovaFan do a montage of the BEST of each of those release. Nastia – Geinger, for example. He Kexin layout Jaeger. Etc. …

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I’ve got mixed feelings about Nellie Kim, the current President of the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee.

But as a gymnast, Nellie was fantastic. A worthy rival to Nadia.

I’d forgotten about this insane dismount. …

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Galina Marinova competed it in 1983. (VIDEO)

What is it? … Double side with 1/4 out?

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John Macready, Courtney McCool and friends build a mud pit at the Flip Fest Summer Camp.

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A glimpse into the week long NCCP Level 3 Technical gymnastics course we just completed.

Shout out to guest coaches Valérie Oudin (Champions) and Jeremy Mosier (Gymtastics).

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Valérie does not use low and medium beams much. Instead the kids wait until they are ready for competition height beam with big mats underneath. Progressively, she lowers those mats.

Jeremy recommends we prepare kids for double somersaulting skills by training “Cody” and backward “Kaboom”. Once you can do those, the double salto backwards seems easy. (I also like backward salto travelling forwards (“gainer”).

The Head Coach of trampoline sports at the host gym, Calgary Gymnastics Centre, Brett MacAulay, feels that Artistic coaches teaching somersaults and twisting saltos should be certified in trampoline up to Level 3.

We recommended that Artistic coaches bring in a trampoline EXPERT when introducing double backward somersaults to gymnasts.

Double forward somersaults are very dangerous. Beware. Some of the best tumblers in the world have been badly injured on multiple forward saltos. (e.g. Shewfelt, O’Neill, Dragalescu)