video – Springfield Gymnastics 100th

Here’s the promo video for the Springfield College Gymnastics 100th annual show.

I wish I could be there. It looks great.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

young Nastia Liukin in competition

Show this video to your girls.

They need to see that even future Olympic Champions make mistakes. At some meets, many, many mistakes.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

what happened to Tye Hill?

UPDATE: Stacy tells:

Tye is also an artist in Cirque du Soleil’s WINTUK!
The show opens Friday, November 13 in New York City.

Likely you’ve seen the Cheer tumbling sensation on YouTube.

A former power tumbler, famous for his kick split into twisting.

http://www.koreus.com/video/pro-gymnastique
Un pro de la gymnastique

Tye was coaching at Cheer Athletics in Dallas. He’s relocated to Total Cheerleading in Auckland, New Zealand. Click through for details.

Frederick Nicolas linked to the video on Facebook.

pirouette drill – Mizoguchi

Here is an interesting and difficult drill from Hideo (Mizo) Mizoguchi to improve pirouettes on uneven and high bar.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

online Vaulting game competition

Moss News is sponsoring a gymnastics video game starting Oct. 19th.

Vault-game

I’d best not enter. I keep running into the table.

(via Tsuk the Pain)

Jana Bieger testifies for coach

FORT LAUDERDALE – More than a dozen parents and children showed up for a bond hearing this morning in support of a South Florida gymnastics coach accused of molesting one of his students.

They wore purple T-shirts with the name of the Deerfield Beach gym where Raymond Adams coached before he was arrested last week. Adams, 38, of Boca Raton, is accused of fondling a 10-year-old girl at Bieger International Gymnastics in September.

“We don’t believe it,” said Vonda Bray, of West Palm Beach, whose 13-year-old daughter was a student of his. “We want him back at our gym.”

Adams sat quietly during the half-hour hearing with his feet shackled and wrists handcuffed. Broward Circuit Judge Michael Gates delayed a bond ruling. …

Gymnastics students, parents back coach from suburban Boca Raton at molestation hearing

Whether innocent or guilty. Whether found innocent or guilty, it’s likely Raymond Adams’ finished as a gymnastics coach.

It’s good to see that Jana and the club are standing up for him, as they think he’s innocent.

2010 European Gymnastics Championships

Another BIG competition will be hosted in England. Put it on your calendar if you can get there.

… will be held at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham from 21 April until 2 May 2010. …

Around 800 of Europe’s best gymnasts from 40 countries will participate in this event, which will incorporate team and individual competitions for seniors and juniors in both men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics. …

The junior element of the Championships will also act as a qualifying event for the first ever Youth Olympic Games.

Tickets start at £6 for Adults and £3 for children under 16 and seniors on weekdays. And £12 for Adults and £6 for children and seniors on weekends.

Tickets are already on sale.

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gymnastics on twitter

by site editor Rick McCharles

Personally I think twitter is a stupid fad.

It’s weak and cryptic compared with Facebook. Not to mention other social networking services.

And inane. Have you ever actually read the garbled nonsense posted by Ashton Kutcher?

Yet twitter does have a few unique advantages, especially for bloggers like me that monitor the internets for interesting “news”.

Many stories break first on twitter.

Here are the most followed gymnastics twits that have signed on with wefollow.com.

gymnastics-twits

Samantha Peszek is #1.

drills for full turn on beam

The full turn on beam is a basic but difficult skill. Here Tammy shows several drills to learn or improve this skill

Click PLAY or watch Tammy Biggs on YouTube.

Tammy will be at Region 5 Congress.