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9.975 is the highest score on Beam in the NCAA so far this year..

Click PLAY or watch UCLA’s Vanessa Zamarripa on YouTube.

Clean and simple. So different than the trick wobble, trick wobble, trick wobble of International beam.

shawnjohnson.net has had a makeover. Twitter features prominently.

@ShawneyJ

(Looks good. But how can any new design in 2010 not have an RSS feed? Bill Gate’s new site designer forgot RSS, as well. It’s finally been added.)

One of her “favorite videos” is World’s Greatest by CdO90. I’d started to forget what made Shawn the best gymnast of the last quadrennial. This edit brought it all back.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

shawnjohnson.net

Yesterday’s episode of MIOBI was one of the best, so far. … OK, that’s not saying much.

But, for once, some of the themes were positive.

… At the Rock, Sasha is hosting the annual Open House Night and decides to make it “fun” this year, encouraging everyone to enjoy themselves by dressing themselves in costumes and preforming routines purely for entertainment. Nicky and Kaylie are assigned to do a duet performance, which proves to be difficult, considering they have conflicting opinions about everything. However, the couple soon come to a truce and Kaylie comes up with an idea for their performance. They do a re-enactment of a Spanish bull fight and the crowd goes wild.

Meanwhile, Emily is convinced by her mom to tell the story of her life through her performance, which results in a little girls asking for Emily’s first autograph.

There’s a story line about the injured Payson finally taking an interest in something outside the gym. And even a swipe at internet haters.

Emily’s performance suffers after she Googles herself and sees that bloggers are judging her negatively online.

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Episode 14 is online free if you live in the USA at ABCfamily.com. And online here if you live outside the States.

This is post # 5000. Quite an archive of information, photos and videos.

Blythe Lawrence again lists 20 gymnasts — “some already big names, others not as much” — who she’s watching this year.

10 women. 10 men.

One of her picks is VERY artistic.

Click PLAY or watch Jesse Silverstein’s P Bars on YouTube.

Click through to see videos of the others:

Gymnastics Examiner – Twenty to watch in 2010

I’ve not used this kind of product. Leave a comment if you’ve an opinion on whether or not it works.

Roll the RipGuardian in a circular motion, then flatten. Place RipGuardian directly on your rip. Spread it out on all ends so that it evenly covers your rip/blister. Using athletic tape, cover the entire section of RipGuardian. Place your wrist bands and girps over the tape …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’ve never seen anything like this.

It’s part pole dancing. Part contortion. Part Chinese pole. A bit of hand balancing. Even some tumbling.

And check out the extreme dismount!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

This is called Mallakhamb.

… a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs poses and feats while hanging from a vertical wooden pole or rope. Mallakhamb also refers to the pole used in the sport. …

Here’s the rope version. It’s like Silks with a rope. Painful!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Cirque Tribune)

Part 3 in a series on StickItMedia.

Sadly, our all-time favorite, Oklahoma’s Russ Czeschin, has graduated. Czeschin was a four-time All-American on floor (3 times) and vault (1 time), and he stretched the tape measure to a whopping 6ft 3″.

The NCAA’s tallest man mantle has been passed down to Penn State senior Matt Greenfield, who tops out at 6ft 2″. Greenfield is an All-American Scholar Athlete, and is primed to do some great things in his final season. …

… read the complete list of gymnasts 6′ 0″ and taller – Who are the Tallest in Men’s Gymnastics? – Part 3

She’s going to Stanford, enrolled for Fall 2010.

… After that, I plan to defer a year and return to Canada to prepare for the 2011 worlds. The goal is to qualify a full team for the 2012 Olympics. …

John Crumlish – International Gymnast – Online Interview: Kristina Vaculik (Canada)

More commentary and video from weekend #3.

Gymnastike has Women’s College Gymnastics Rankings with links to videos from those meets. Nice!

And from Blythe Lawrence:

Just when you think that UCLA is looking like a prime contender for the 2010 NCAA title, the Bruins lose. To Stanford, which was defeated by Georgia during the first week of competition. But Georgia has lost to Utah, which has already been defeated by UCLA. So what are college gymnastics fans supposed to think now?

Well, we know that Alabama looks good. …

read more – Gymnastics Advisor – NCAA: The plot thickens with UCLA’s loss to Stanford