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From the most experienced meet scorer in Canada, Stu Cram, the latest version of his program for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics:

GymScoreLite-2010 is now available for the coming gymnastics competitive season. This is an Excel program aimed to help produce results and related forms at inter-club gymnastics meets.

New features include support for these items…
• 2 ways to compute ties (skipping places or not)
• team scores based on N best scores per event.
• improved options to create rotations & order of competitors
• 1 or 2 byes for WAG meets
• better options for meets with awards for achievement
• improved layouts and help
• several other minor improvements

A detailed User’s Guide for the new version is also available

As before, GymScoreLite is free to download and test out. If you find it useful for your club meets, please consider making a contribution to support future development and other aspects of the Gym-Score-Depot project.

Go to Gym-Score-Depot.ca to download your copy. Then click on the link to the software section.

The MAG version should be available around Oct. 30th.

high resolution October calendar available from Gymnastics Training Tips

I saw this first on Nastia’s twitter feed. It was expected.

President Barack Obama will travel to Denmark this week to support Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president, told The Associated Press Monday morning that Obama will leave Thursday and join his wife, Michelle, in Copenhagen, where they’ll make the pitch to the International Olympic Committee. Obama would be the first U.S. president to take on such a direct role in lobbying for an Olympics event.

The International Olympic Committee is meeting in Copenhagen to select a host city for the 2016 Summer Games. Chicago faces tough competition from Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo. …

They join a Chicago contingent already packed with more star power than a Hollywood red carpet. The first lady is one of the few people who rivals her husband in visibility, and she’ll be joined by talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who trails only Angelina Jolie on Forbes’ annual Celebrity 100 list, a ranking of the rich and famous’ most powerful.

Chicago is also bringing 14 Olympic and two Paralympic gold medalists, including Michael Johnson, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Nadia Comaneci and Nastia Liukin.

AP

Chicago will win the vote.

Everyone who has met 2007 American National Gymnastics Champion Dave Durante admires him.

But what gymnasts does David look up to?

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/assets/portal/add_ons/mediaplayer-4.2/player.swf

David is a former member of the men’s US Senior National team and was named an alternate for the 2008 Beijing Olympic team. Dave also competed collegiately for Stanford University. After graduating, Dave moved to Colorado Springs to live and train at the USOTC.

His main accomplishments include: 2007 US National All-Around Champion; 2007 US National parallel bars champion; 2007 Pan American Games team bronze medalist; 2006 Winter Cup Challenge all-around & pommel horse champion; and 2005 Winter Cup Challenge all-around champion & parallel bars silver medalist.

Dave is now in Rome. Check his new blog: JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE

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The latest in a series of video tutorials from Jay Thornton.

… These Protec Gymnastics Grips actually have a palm that is made up of 2 pieces of leather with a Kevlar bond sandwiched in-between.

Because of this chemical bond, the grips are stronger than some other styles and they don’t stretch as much as normal grips. Since they stretch less than other dowel grips, it can take a little bit of time to get used to the way that they feel.

We generally recommend this style of grips to higher level optional girls (Levels 9, 10 & Elite) that are breaking other styles of grips more frequently than they should. We sell a lot of the Protec grips to womens collegiate gymnastics teams. …

Click PLAY or watch it on American Gymnast.

The previous 2 videos in this series – choosing handguards for gymnasts

I’ve not bought Protecs. Leave a comment if you have an opinion on them.

Solid routine from one of the 2008 Olympic Team members, Deng Linlin.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Guan Wenli competed aerial walkover to Arabian front. (big wobble)

(via About.com Gymnastics)

Deng Linlin is the AA Champion for 2009, as well.

A truly superb edit from 17yr-old gymnastdory.

Highlights of the 2008 Olympics, it brought tears to my eyes.

If you have a high speed internet connection, it’s well worth clicking through to watch it on YouTube, a larger version than what’s embedded below.

Thanks Faith.

Pro-jump (UK) and Poweriser (USA) are two brands of spring-loaded stilts used for the extreme sport of Powerbocking. (Alexander Böck from Germany first patented the idea in 1999.)

You might also see them called Kangaroo Boots.

Click PLAY or watch Pro-jump action on YouTube.

There are a number of other brands, of course.

They’ve been used in circus performances. Yet I feel there’s much potential left in this invention.

Perhaps Poweriser basketball.

Thanks Sally. … Check out her The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Leotards blog.

I’ve yet to see the Cirque BUG show. But it looks fun.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It’s playing Toronto right now. Then touring the USA.

official website

Thanks Marceline.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Leslie Feist (born 13 February 1976) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She performs as a solo artist under the name Feist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. …

The choreography, by dancer Noemi Lafrance, owes something to the brilliant Here It Goes Again video by OK Go. That was choreographed by Trish Sie.

… Because her father is American, Feist has dual Canadian-American citizenship, though she joked in a televised interview on The Colbert Report that she was given American citizenship as part of a deal with Apple …

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