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Some long forgotten skills and combinations.

… Music: ABBA – Take A Chance on Me. Yeah, I know Abba were 70s.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

MAG / WAG coaches required in New Zealand

Hutt Valley GymSports situated in Lower Hutt New Zealand has vacancies for coaches able to instruct in the MAG and/or WAG disciplines. Qualifications to coach at a senior level are desirable but not essential as the roles and responsibilities are open to discussion and there is scope for additional work in the club’s Gym for All, Play Gym and casual programmes. The ability to communicate with people at all levels, a willingness to learn and enthusiasm in coaching are key attributes that applicants must be able demonstrate.

If you’re travelling to New Zealand on a working holiday or are heading this way for a longer stay this could be the ideal work opportunity for you.

You can also visit our website at www.huttvalleygymsports.co.nz for more information about our club.

Pay rate and hours negotiable.

Please email CV in the first instance to HVGS President – tim.edgeler AT gmail.com.

The best coaching staff photos I’ve ever seen were shot by Missoula photographer Jonathan Qualben

Those are some of the Mismo Gymnastics and Cheer coaches.

Analyst Andrew Thornton posted the most optimistic assessment for the USA that I’ve seen.

He believes this American team could beat this Russian team in Rotterdam, this October:

1. Rebecca Bross
2. Bridget Sloan
3. Kytra Hunter
4. Kayla Williams
5. Aly Raisman
6. Samantha Shapiro

1. Aliya Mustafina
2. Tatiana Nabieva
3. Ksenia Afanasyeva
4. Ksenia Semenova
5. Anna Pavlova
6. Anna Myzdrikova

There’s a whole lot of ifs, buts and maybes, of course. But it makes for interesting speculation.

Click through for details and to comment: American Gymnast – Could this USA women’s world team win gold?

Frustrated trying to get a question answered online?

Ask Jay.

American Gymnast is owned by former World Gymnastics Team Member and Goodwill Games Silver Medalist, Jay Thornton. Jay has over 25 years experience in the sport of gymnastics, including as an elite gymnast, coach, judge, USA Gymnastics Board Member and member of the 2004 & 2008 (chairman) Olympic Games Selection Committees.

Click through to American Gymnast to ask Jay any question you wish about Gymnastics.

Of course Andrew Thornton is Jay’s brother, and a blogger on that site.

You can pose any question to elite WAG coach Al Fong, too. Leave a comment on any post on the Ask Al Fong – Dragon Gymnastics blog.

I’m hearing rumours of a great job in the sunny Southwest.

It’s not posted yet. But you can get a head’s up in advance by emailing me: Rick_McCharles@hotmail.com

MostepanovaFan sends us the link:

They’ve only got one set of eyes between them and bear a striking resemblance to a computer game figure crossed with a character from the film Monsters, Inc. …

Meet Wenlock and Mandeville: The new London 2012 Olympic mascots

Here’s Wenlock trying gymnastics, inspired by Beth Tweddle:

At least, there’s only one each for Olympics and Paralympics. Not an ensemble of mascots.

If you’ve got nothing else to do, watch the video.

Gymnasticsman (aka Matthew Miscisin) wrote the Big Book.

An older product, you might get it directly from Amazon.

Amazon

Or via Gymnasticsman.com. Prices vary, but you might get it for $25.

You can also download games one-at-a-time for a dollar each.

I’ve not seen The Big Book, myself. Leave a comment if you have an opinion.

Of course Asian acrobats, male and female, have been doing Chinese Pole performances for hundreds, or thousands, of years.

But when the general public hears the term “pole dancing”, what jumps to mind is the female version seen in strip clubs. The new Cirque ELVIS show has a terrific pole dance act, based on the strip club version.

More recently, fitness pole dance classes have become popular. And competitions.

For example, Miss Pole Dance World 2009 was held in Jamaica. 2010 is in Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 2nd.

Karry Summers, former Level 10 national gymnastics champion from New Zealand, tells me that me that men are actually much better than women on pole as it’s so upper body strength dependent.

(Karry, by the way, has launched a Pole Fitness program in Christchurch. Click through to see details on her public Facebook page – Altitude Pole.)

Click PLAY or watch a Dominic Lacasse pole dance highlights video from Japan on YouTube.

related – interview with male pole dancer Tavon Hargett

It’s not official until the NCAA Rules Committee meets this summer, but it’s near certain that Team Final “Four on the Floor” concept approved almost unanimously last season, is dead.

Inside Gymnastics posted a detailed overview of what went down at the recent NCAA Women’s Gymnastics College Coaches meetings:

… … at the 2010 J.O.s, the coaches, again in a near unanimous vote, elected to overturn their previous decision and retain the Super Six. …

Recall that Utah’s Greg Marsden championed the idea of a LIVE Team Championships as key to bringing College gymnastics to the next level.

Since then, not only had no live TV contract materialized, but Women’s Gymnastics has lost the delayed CBS TV coverage they have now.

Last year Florida’s Rhonda Faehn was the sole voice in opposition to “Four on the Floor”.

History has vindicated her concerns.

… “Promoting and marketing our sport is challenging,” Faehn acknowledges, “but I don’t think it’s because we don’t have live TV. I think part of the problem is that our sport—the equipment, the facilities—is very expensive, especially in these hard economic times. I think it’s important that coaches have established relationships with their athletic directors, their community.

We, as coaches, have to work to promote our sport and show why this sport is necessary and valuable. I think part of our job as coaches is marketing. We are all striving to do what Greg Marsden did at Utah, taking his [attendance] from 300 to more than 15,000. That’s what will save programs, not one live television competition.” …

Inside Gymnastics – Reversal of Fortune

I’d like to see the meet, perhaps the most exciting and dramatic anywhere, better streamed online, with a running team total based on AVERAGE counting score / routine.

Thanks Ono No Komachi.