if gymnastics was easy it would be called football

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if gymnastics was easy it would be called football

In High School Physical Education, obviously, I was the teacher’s assistant for the Gymnastics Module. The football players got paid back.

Best was watching them try to cross support on low rings. Hilarious.

Balance Beam in Slow Motion

The elegance and grace of balance beam.

In this video:
Nastia Liukin
Shannon Miller
Dominique Moceanu
Shawn Johnson
Nadia Comaneci
Svetlana Boginskaya
Kristie Phillips
Yelena Mukhina
Mary Lou Retton
Mo Huilan
Catalina Ponor
Yang Bo
Carly Patterson
Svetlana Khorkina
Kim Zmeskal
Andreea Raducan
and others…

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

BEST of the Great West Gym Fest

Talking to kids at the big meet in Idaho this weekend, they like best two things:

1) March-in like a big College Meet.

Great West Gym Fest 2010

2) Meeting inspiring Olympians

Courtney Kupets at Great West Gym Fest 2010

The AWARDS are brilliant too. The best anywhere.

See more meet photos on flickr.

Florida over Georgia Gymnastics

My friend Courtney told me her team had a great meet but was edged out by Florida.

… the Gators registered their first home dual meet win over No. 7 Georgia … since 1990. Florida posted a season-high 197.25 to claim the slender win over the five-time defending NCAA champion Gym Dogs. Georgia’s total of 197.15 was just behind its season-best of 197.20 …

Gator Zone

Both teams plan to win National Championships hosted this year at Florida.

tickets

NCAA gymnast Stephanie McGregor

… Stephanie McGregor juggles gymnastics, University Honors College, and an engineering major but still has time for herself

Grady Garrett in the The Daily Barometer wrote a glowing profile of a Canadian gymnast competing for the #3 ranked Oregon Beavers: McGregor knows the key to balance

It’s an inspiring read.

CONGRATS Steph.

Growing Child in High Performance Sport

Here’s the conference I’d most like to attend this year:

Birmingham, England Apr. 30th – May 1st, 2010

It’s multi-sport, but has very strong gymnastics representation.

“This is unique opportunity for coaches working with young performers”, said Hardy Fink, Canada, Director of Education and Academy Programme of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).

Prof Keith Russell (CAN), Prof Adam Baxter Jones (CAN), Prof Joachim Mester (GER), Prof Joan Duda (USA), Prof Nicola Maffulli (GBR), Prof Neil Armstrong (GBR), and David Hemery CBE.

Chairs: Professor Craig Sharp, Professor Colin Boreham, Professor Fred Yeadon, Professor Lew Hardy, Dr. John Atkinson, Mr. John Aldridge and Professor Greg Whyte.

Kelly's wedding with best man Kyle Shewfelt

Kelly Manjak (CAN) will be presenting on Coaching Issues.

Manjak coached Kyle Shewfelt to the Olympic gold medal … in Athens as well as a fourth place finish on the vault. Manjak and Shewfelt worked together for 16 years …

Coaching Association of Canada

British Gymnastics – Congress home page

hotel gymnastics meets

by site editor Rick McCharles

The Great West Gym Fest is hosted in the gorgeous Coeur d’Alene Resort.

Great West Gym Fest

It’s wonderfully convenient to host everything in a hotel. But there are challenges.

The biggest problem with set-up for us was fitting in the bleachers.

Great West Gym Fest

Next … do we need to remove ceiling tiles for Bar dismounts?

Great West Gym Fest

In the end, we have a classy and cosy venue.

Great West Gym Fest

The meet is well underway. I picked up Courtney Kupets at the airport today. How was your morning?

WePlay.com – Gymnastics

Sports Girls Play linked to WePlay.com. One of their many sports is Gymnastics.

Youth Gymnastics Hub – Your place for everything Gymnastics

Looks good though I’m not sure how well the content is networked. See for yourself.

About 4000 “members“. (many with cartoon avatars)

Over 300 “Gymnastics Groups“.

Something called “blogs“. (Though no page without an RSS feed can be a blog, in my opinion.)

Hundreds of photos and videos:

Roanoke Academy of Gymnastics

WePlay.com – Gymnastics