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Gymnasts Hannah Wickens, Kirsty Dalrymple, April Coombs, Scarlett Rolt and Elise Hale goof for Walt Disney to help launch the DVD of the gymnastics film ‘Stick It’.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2007)

(via GymNiceTic)

The first ever Asian Junior Trampoline Championships saw two victors from China.

He Yuxiang and Dong Yu will, I assume, qualify to the first ever Youth Olympic Games to be held in Singapore this Summer.

A maximum of one male and one female trampolinist born in 1993 or 1994 is allowed per country.

… It makes me wonder if we’ll have any age falsification scandals in Singapore. Since very narrow age requirements are in place for every sport, the most likely scenario would be to have an overage athlete claim they were younger.

PavLiukin was there, starting a commentary thread on IG Forum.

Gymnastics Issues has already posted commentary and video.

This weekend there us a friendly in the UK and today was the senior competition. They had a 5 day training camp before the competition which was used to prepare for the European Championships. Results of the Team Competition:

1. Romania 221.850
2. Great Britain 221.600

… Germany only had 3 Seniors competing as Marie-Sophie Hindermann sustained a slight injury during Fridays training.

Results of the AA:
1. Diana Chelaru 56.800
2. Ana Porgras 56.050
3. Niamh Rippin 54.650
4. Raluca Haidu 54.300
5. Elisabeth Seitz 54.100
6. Amelia Racea 54.000

read more – GBR – ROM – GER Friendly

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photo – Ana Porgras

Beth (Tweddle) earned the highest scores on Bars (15.700) and Floor (15.050) …

Want to know more about the very hip hiphop dance troupe?

The recently played the most prestigious conference in the world: Technology Entertainment and Design. (17min video)

The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. In a preview of Jon Chu’s upcoming Web series, this astonishing troupe show off their superpowers.

The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) are building an interactive web series that represents the next evolution of dance.

Full bio and more links

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TED

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Facebook is wonderful. But confusing.

The Couch Gymnast has a good preview of the WAG competition – DOH!…. IT’S DOHA TIME!!

The highlight of that post for me was this photo of Tina Erceg:

Some of the top gymnasts will be seen in action at the Third Doha Artistic Gymnastics World to be held at the Aspire Dome from March 22 to 24.

This FIG event, organised by the Qatar Gymnastics Federation (QGF) and there will also be local participation. Qatar’s boys and a girl will be competing at this FIG World Cup Category A championship. …

As many as 153 gymnasts from 23 countries will vie for top honours in various categories. …

Some of world’s well known gymnasts included Croatia’s Tina Erceg, Krisztian Berki of Hungary, Daniele Matias Hypolito (Brazil) and China’s Huang Qiushwang …

Doha gears up for FIG event

Brett MacAulay linked to the F.I.G. report:

As the first major Trampoline and Tumbling meet of the year, Elite Canada in Airdrie, Alta, provided veterans like Jason Burnett and Karen Cockburn with an ideal meet to kick off the season, and gave rising stars like Mariah Madigan and Vincent Ng, both of Toronto, a chance to measure them themselves in head-to-head competition with members of the senior national team.

For the first time at Elite Canada, competition in all disciplines was open with both youth and senior athletes competing against one another. …

… Another change at Elite Canada this year was the introduction of a new scoring system in trampoline which awarded points for “air time,” rewarding competitors with longer routines. The new scoring system will make its international debut in the fall. …

click through for a summary report and results – Elite Canada gets off to good start

photo – Julie Warnock of Airdrie Edge T&T

Another montage selection by the Quitters Try tumblr blog.

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

One of the themes of the second issue of Couch Gymnast, the magazine is contributors naming their personal favourites.

gymnastics photographer Iris Van den Broek:
Ksenia Semenova
Lilia Podkopayeva

Jennifer Giacobbe-Sutherland, gymnastics coach and needlepoint artist:
Nadia Comanichi
Yelena Mukhina

Readers:
Lilya Podkopayeva
Shannon Miller
Tatiana Lysenko
Ekaterina Labaznyuk
Cheng Fei
Nastia Liukin
Anna Pavlova
Courtney Kupets
Dina Kochetkova
Kate Richardson
Isabelle Severino
Mo Huilan

Chris’ favourite gymnasts who did not compete World’s or Olympics:
Tatiana Groshkova
Yulia Kut
Natalia Frolova
Claudia Rusan
Kristal Uzelac
Jackie Bender
Nadezhda Ivanova
Augustina Badea
Gabriela Gheorghe
Mirela Sidon
Daria Elizarova
Huang Qiushuang

Triplefull368 faves:
Anna Pavlova
Yang Bo
Nadezhda Inanova
Fan Ye
Sabina Cojocar
Natalia Frolova
Kui Yuanyuan
Olesya Dudnik
Olga Mostepanova
Tatiana Groshkova

Triplefull368 points out that with YouTube we can easily watch our favourites of the past. So true. YouTube is the best thing that ever happened for gymnastics fans.

A couple of my own favourites not yet mentioned both coached by “The Bear”, Vladislav Rastorestkiy:

Natalia Yurchenko
Natalia Shaposhnikova

Leave a comment if you want to add a name to this list.

Girls competing Full Twisting Double Layout Flyaway this season:

Kylee Botterman, Michigan
Jamie Bullock, Minnesota
Nicole Cowart, Illinois
Taylor Jacob, Boise State
Courtney McCool, UGA
Kara Wright, UNC

That’s a serious dismount. Difficult to stick. And usually not needed to start from 10.0.

Click PLAY or watch Nicole’s (muscled) Bars on Gymnastike.

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College Gym Fans posts a list of “superlative” skills each season. Click through to check out the list and make additions / corrections.

They are missing, for example, Brandi’s 1/1 twisting double layout on Floor.

… a listing of high level skills performed by Women in the 2019 Season. To make this list, the skill had to be successfully competed in a meet sometime during the season. The skill competed must have an FIG rating of “E” or “F” or “G”, or an FIG Vault Difficult Value of 5.3 or higher.