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… Mas Wanatabe shows a drill for working the punch off the table and post flight that you can use to increase the number of repetitions you can do by using two spring boards and a pit. Mas Watanabe is currently the vaulting coach for the US National Team.
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Mas is working with the American National Team? Awesome. He’ll be a wise, calming influence.
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LSU’s Susan Jackson as a club gymnast was coached by Dan and Ashley Baker at Stars Gymnastics. She was a four-time member of the USA National Team.
Susan’s making her former club proud this season, ranked #1 in the NCAA again, for the 5th week in a row. This past Friday night was her happiest meet yet:
… It happened just the way LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux hoped.
All-American senior Susan Jackson, the final performer in the final event of Friday night’s meet, stepped onto the floor needing a score of 9.80 to propel No. 12 LSU to an upset of top-ranked Alabama.
“I didn’t know where we stood,” Jackson said of the team scores. “I just went out there and had fun. I didn’t think about winning. I just went out there and did what I was capable of doing.”
Turns out, Jackson was capable of more than LSU needed.
She scored a season-best 9.95 …
Jackson’s clutch effort caps off Tigers’ upset
Here’s the list of girls trying to catch Susan.
Shayla suddenly looks like a contender, as most predicted at the beginning of the season. Note, however, that her rank is based on only one AA meet, this weekend against Kentucky.
Things get interestinger and interestinger in College Gymnastics.
… OU women’s gymnastics squad remained undefeated on the year (8-0, 1-0 Big 12) with a wire-to-wire triangular victory over No. 10 Nebraska (6-1) and TWU (3-5) in front of 1,405 fans at Lloyd Noble Center on Friday.
The Sooners scored a season-high 196.825 despite counting a fall on beam …
The formatting of the names in the press release from USAG is confusing. (As was the live scoring website for the Winter Cup.)
But I still managed to decipher who was named to the National Team:
Brooks, Bunthuwong, Cameron, Dalton, Gentry, Haagensen, Hagerty, Horton, Ishino, Legendre, Leyva, McNeill, Mizoguchi, Naddour, Ruggeri, Tan, Wynn.
… The 17 gymnasts named to the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team will be on the team through the 2010 Visa Championships in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 11-14. Based on the Winter Cup results, 10 qualified for the team using the National Team Points System, and the remaining were selected by the Men’s Program Committee from among the Winter Cup participants and athlete petitions. …
Danell Leyva is the next great American gymnast, most reckon:
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And it’s great to see young Tyler Mizoguchi, son of coaching great Hideo Mizoguchi, on the list.
The latest from MostepanovaFan.
Success was worked out by: total number of World and Olympic individual medals won (no team medals counted), if there were ties it was split by number of golds, then number of silvers, then number of bronzes. If there was still a tie, Olympic medals were given precedence.
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Nadia is only #6. That’s surprising.
There’s a discussion on the most “beautiful” Romanian Gymnasts on IG forum right now. I voted for Aurelia Dobre. She has 4 sons, I just learned.
Here’s my vote: X-C Snowboarding
Get PHLAT, dude. Funny.
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(via The Outside Blog)
For the first 5 weeks of the NCAA season Susan’s been ranked #1 in the all-around. Yet there’s not all that much information about her on the interwebs.
One thing for sure, she’s got legs.
Click PLAY or watch her Floor on Gymnastike.
Aside from the cute back headspring, a somewhat conventional routine by College standards. Strong tumbling, however. Love the amplitude.
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Finals Results 1.Brooks 2.Horton 3.Cameron 4.Leyva 5.Gentry 6. Legendre
full results (PDF)
UPDATE: Highlights and commentary on Gymnastics Examiner.
Gymnastics Examiner posted a summary of everything that happened Friday, Feb. 5th.
High scores and surprises highlight Friday’s NCAA gymnastics meets
Bottom line: Many teams are “finding their groove”. This was the best night of gymnastics so far this season. The sport is very attractive to fans. And I’m expecting escalating excitement leading up to the Championships in Florida.
Kudos to the NCAA.
UPDATE: BYU women’s gymnastics team ecstatic
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