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Gymnastike’s Anne Phillips refused to come to Canadian Championships …

Actually, she’d love to be here in Kamloops, British Columbia. But couldn’t make it. I volunteered to video a few Gymnastike style interviews, and upload those to her site.

Here’s my first (apologies in advance), the Canadian Junior Sabrina Gill from Oakville Gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://c1403192.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/player.swf

Gymnastics Videos on Gymnastike

She’s coached by Lorne Bobkin, Kelly and Sue Manjak. One of the best coaches in Canadian history, Alex Bard, recently joined the staff there, too.

related – Gymnastics Examiner – LIVE BLOG 2010 Canadian Nationals, junior women’s qualification

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In the very competitive youngest Men’s Artistic division, Argo, 13yr-old Justin Karstadt from Futures Gymnastics in Ontario came out victorious.

full results (PDF)

Results and video interview coming soon. Gymnastics Examiner will have an interview with Justin, as well.

CONGRATULATIONS.

2010 Canadian Championships day 1
HP Novice Combined Flights

1. Shallon Olsen – 59.250 (BC – Omega)
2. Elise Bolger – 56.200 (ON – Oakville)
3. Maegan Chant – 56.050 (ON – World Class)

full results (PDF)

Born 2000, Shallon is not only GREAT … She’s very young.

Novice girls, the youngest division, looked excellent, overall.

The first videos of WAG gymnastics at the Canadian Gymnastics Championships are appearing.

Click PLAY or watch Kristina Vaculik’s prelim Beam on YouTube.

That’s the gymnasticscanada YouTube channel. He’ll be uploading more. I know, because he’s sitting beside me in the media booth using a Flip pocket camcorder.

The Olympic Silver medalist took it easy at #CdnGymChamps, throwing only a 17.3 degree of difficulty.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Jason’s current World Record is, I think, still 18.0.

Alex easily wins Sr. Men’s Tumbling prelims at #CdnGymChamps.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Great form.

Stu Cram captured this. I assume it’s QUAD SYNCHRO. … A new discipline?

Shout out to the Men’s Senior Tumblers. Everybody hit. A great show in prelims at National Championships. (#CdnGymChamps)

I’ll link to video if I can get my hands on it.

Click through to YouTube to watch the Gymnastics Canada video being shown before each rotation at National Championships. (CdnGymChamps)

It features plenty of footage from Oakville Gym Club.

#CdnGymChamps

Just got an email from Kyle. He’s psyched for the radical new event with his name on it, especially the exposure it will give one of his favourite charities: Right To Play.

I talked to Tony and Lisa Smith, University of Calgary Head Coaches, offering to volunteer. This is a gigantic upscaling of what’s already one of the biggest competitions in Canada. They could have thousands of participants the first year!

The official Festival website is not LIVE yet. But you can get more information by emailing: kyleshewfeltinvite@gmail.com

Ask to be put on the mailing list.

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Kyle will arrive Thursday to do commentary on the first ever Web Broadcast of the 2010 Canadian Gymnastics Championships.

Thursday, May 27
6:30 – 9:00 pm
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) Junior & Senior All-Around & Men’s Artistic Gymnastics (MAG) Senior All-Around

Friday, May 28
6:00 – 9:30 pm: Trampoline Gymnastics (TG) Team Finals

Saturday, May 28
2:30 – 6:00 pm: WAG, MAG and TG senior Finals

Barabus.TRU.ca/gymnastics (Please note this link will not be live until the date of the first broadcast)

A well edited year end highlights video showing why College gymnastics is so FUN. Stanford finished 4th at Championships. Janinga had a great final Senior meet: 3rd AA and Bars champion.

How did they celebrate? A team trip to Disney World in Florida.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (10min)

That’s posted on Senior Tenaya West‘s YouTube channel.

… I’m going to miss Tenaya’s wonderful smile next season.

I’m going to miss Stanford Assistant Coach Mike Lorenzen, too. He’s decided to “graduate” to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, taking a job as Director of Sport Strategy for USA Fencing.

Next season?

Stanford’s got some great recruits, including Kristina Vaculik.