Gymnastics Coaching.com

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:

WePlay.com – Gymnastics

A strange and dramatic edit of the champions in Beijing.

… Music’s from “The Lion King” the track entitled “King of Pride Rock. …

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I like the final clip, Nastia nailing her Vault.

(via gymgal92 on IG forum)

Blythe Lawrence posted a great interview with Tim McNeill as he readies to challenge some of the best in the world at next month’s American Cup:

Gymnastics Examiner – Tim McNeill: ‘I feel like a completely different gymnast than I did a year ago’

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The deadline is March 5th for Canadian eligible coaches to apply for the 2010-2011 Level 4 NCCP cycle. (MAG, RG, TG or WAG). Contact your Provincial office.

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Great dismount, though difficult to stick.

More videos from the “Moscow Championships” in February.

Who is this gymnast? Alexei Nemov?

Sergei Kharkov at 1991 Moscow World Stars. Thanks Hertzen.

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I’m looking for more examples of the world’s best Tkachevs.

Nemov’s layout reverse hecht is as high as any I’ve seen.

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A superb edit by Selicious, film student at Brook’s Institute.

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Hardly “fluff”.

If you like that, check out his other videos.

What’s the essence of sport?

People challenging others to see who’s “best” under some arbitrary set of rules.

Short Track Speed Skating is exactly that.

The race itself is madness. There’s a delicious uncertainty about who’s going to win.

… the story of Steven Bradbury, “The Last Man Standing” in the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002. …

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Salt Lake City Olympic Coach Kendra Wilkie Street linked to this video on Facebook. Thanks Kendra.

Do you call it overshoot? Shootover? Shoot half? Bail to Handstand?

This skill has many different names.

Here’s a nice series of progressions posted by Bart on Gymnastics-Skills.com.

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Next, this non-spotting set-up used by Coach Milo. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The One Arm Drop drill only needs be used if a girl has problems with the system above.

Most coaches end up standing in on this skill in competition for a long, long time. It gives the kids confidence to go for handstand.

Pak is a better alternative, in my opinion.

Cirque’s Marceline Goldstein went out to try this insanely extreme sport. Looks hairy.

This is the latest snow kite promo video from Ozone, manufacturers of power kites , snow kites, kitesurf kites and paragliders.

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