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Here’s my vote: X-C Snowboarding

Get PHLAT, dude. Funny.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(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.

Inside Gymnastics is live blogging.

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

UCLA posted a season-high 196.725 to easily defeat Arizona (193.8) in a dual meet in Tucson on Friday night. Bruin sophomore Vanessa Zamarripa won the all-around with a career-high 39.675 and captured first place on bars (career-high 9.95) and beam (9.95). She also picked up a season-high on floor with a 9.9. …

UCLA Bruins

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I’m still projecting the Bruins to be the team favourites come SHOW TIME in Gainesville, Florida, April 22-24, 2010. They’ve got depth and star power.

But who will be the top all-arounder for UCLA?

Who can challenge LSU’s Susan Jackson?

I should be picking 2008 Olympian Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs. But I find myself cheering for the charismatic Miss Zamarripa. She reminds me of Kristina Baskett, my favourite from last season.

Leave a comment (aren’t comments great?) if you’ve got your own prediction on team or all-around.

It’s one of the major plot lines in the TV show Make It or Break It.

But how many gyms, in reality, have such an unenforceable restriction?

A gymnast from Tennesse recently had that rule imposed. And started a thread on the Chalk Bucket forum.

In fact, at her gym the rule is in effect for competitive and non-competitive kids.

Like that’s going to work.

Great theme for an event.

The No. 14 Missouri gymnastics team will face New Hampshire starting at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. The No. 17 Tigers wrestling team will start its meet with No. 9 Oklahoma a half hour later. Both teams will be competing simultaneously on the Hearnes Center floor. …

Missouri gymnastics and wrestling teams host Beauty and the Beast meet

Wrestlers and gymnasts will not be holding hands entering the arena this time.

by site editor Rick McCharles

95% of people don’t read the comments on this site. They are “buried“. You must make a special effort to find them. Or to comment.

I like it this way. But the topic is controversial:

If you’ve been following the blogging and social media scene over the last five or more years, you know that there’s one heated debate that keeps on showing up: the debate about comments on blogs. Should blogs have comments? Should these comments be moderated? When has a comment gone too far? Judging from a couple of recent events, it’s once again time to rethink these issues.

Popular gadget site Engadget has recently shut down comments. It’s a temporary measure, it says, but the blog took it because the “tone in comments has really gotten out of hand.” …

A New Debate on Blog Comments is Brewing

The main purpose of comments on Gymnastics Coaching is to share information. Or, more often, to correct a mistake that’s been posted.

If you want to debate Nastia vs Shawn ad nauseum, head over to one of the gymnastics forums. If you want to get nasty about it, there are invitation only private forums. If you can find them.

Congratulations!

Arkansas posted the all-time highest score in school history and recorded top 10 scores in three events as the No. 7 Razorbacks recorded a 197.025-196.425 victory over No. 16 Auburn on Friday in Barnhill Arena. …

The previous record was 196.950 set in last year’s NCAA Championship Session II to send Arkansas into the NCAA Super Six. Arkansas recorded the top score in the nation a week ago with the 196.750 total in the win over No. 12 Kentucky.

“We have been trying to get this record for the last two years,” co-head coach René Cook said. “To do it tonight at home was great. We had a great environment and this just keeps building our confidence.” …

Magee won the all-around with 39.625 points while winning bars (9.925) and beam (9.950), and tying Pisani for the title on floor (9.875). Pisani won the vault title (9.950). …

First-ever 197 leads No. 7 past No. 16 Auburn

I had a feeling this might happen.

Predictable in that this College gymnastics season has been so unpredictable.

… “This is a huge victory for us in our gymnastics, but it is also a confidence booster,” LSU head coach D-D Breaux said. “A win like this does so much to validate how we are training and what we are doing in preparation for the end of the season. It is all about getting to the end of the season healthy, and we are really excited to be at this middle point of our season and turn the corner on a real positive note.” …

Gymnastics Topples No. 1 Alabama at PMAC

Even more interesting to me is the juggernaut that is Susan Jackson. She’s just unstoppable. Last weekend she defeated the #2 all-arounder of 2 weeks ago, Florida’s Ashanée Dickerson. Tonight she defeated the #2 all-arounder of last week, Alabama’s Morgan Dennis.

LSU senior Susan Jackson won an all-around showdown with Dennis. Jackson, ranked No. 1 in the nation in the all-around, finished first. Dennis, ranked No. 2 in the nation in the all-around, finished third (39.4). Alabama sophomore Ashley Priess finished second (39.45). …

No. 1 Alabama gymnastics team falls on road to No. 12 LSU