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Thanks Stu.

When I was a gymnast I pulled a hamstring doing this same drill with a t-shirt on a hardwood floor.

It’s for advanced athletes.

… improve both flexibility and strength in flexibility. Cassie is using simple furnature sliders in this drill.

Click PLAY or watch Flexibility with Sliders on Tom’s blog.

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related post – Tammy Biggs – advanced flexibility

Matt from Oregon Gymnastics Academy posted this clip.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’ve never spotted this skill (Bhardwaj). But OGA gymnast, Alexis, makes it look very easy. Possibly even easier than Pak … except for the downswing on the kip.

Is this Alexis competing at the Battle in Seattle 2008?

Leave a comment if you’ve coached it in the past and have advice.

UPDATE: In the comments Matt says:

This skill was found by accident like many skills one looks for when working with level 9’s and 10’s. She had issues over rotating an over shoot, so what do you do? Work a PAK. When she would land in a handstand for the over shoot, I would count 1,2 then twist her the other half. For any questions spotting ANYTHING on bars, please email me at zo22311 AT yahoo.com.

Friday we finished up week #1 of the Island Gymnastics Summer Camp in pretty Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Scott made a special arrangement to come in to lead warm-ups the first day.

Scott finished 9th in Senior at the Canadian Championships 2009, ahead of a number of National Team members half his age.

Sometimes the old dog doesn’t need new tricks.

Scott’s not retiring anytime soon. Nationals will be hosted in his home town in 2011. …

Perhaps Scott can try to catch up to Epsen JANSEN, second at the Norwegian Championships this year.

Epsen is over 40 now.

Some terrific training video from Colorado Aerials Gymnastics was posted online.

Gymnasts Kiersten Wang and Maggie Teets are highlighted.

Click through to Gymnastike to watch it – Workout Wednesday with the Colorado Aerials Elites

UPDATED: As part of the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo an Open Gymnastics Workshop was offered with performers Mall Kalve & Club Piruett, Estonia.

And the Paris Police Gymnastics Display Team, from France.

Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Gymnasts of All Ages and Abilities Welcome

It was very relaxed and informal. Rhythmic, Acrobatic Gymnastics, Mini-tramp and Parallel Bars.

See a few more photos from this event.

Jiang Yuyuan (China) and Yosuke Hoshi (Japan) led an Asian sweep of the all-around medals Saturday at the University Games in Belgrade, Serbia. …

International Gymnast – Jiang, Hoshi Win University Games

WOMEN ALL-AROUND
1. JIANG, Yuyuan – China – 57.050
2. HE, Ning – China – 56.600
3. KIM, Un Hyang – DPR Korea – 55.800
4. HONG, Un Jong – DPR Korea – 55.000
5. TANAKA, Rie – Japan – 54.550
6. KLYUKINA, Svetlana – Russia – 53.800

MEN ALL-AROUND
1. Yosuke Hoshi – Japan – 87.250
2. Wang Heng – China – 87.200
3. Kim Soo Myun – South Korea – 86.950
4. Manuel Campos – Portugal – 86.450
5. Marcell Hetrovics – Hungary – 86.400
6. Nikolai Kuksenkov – Ukraine – 85.850

Apparatus Finals are yet to come.

Italy earned two more gold medals Friday as the Mediterranean Games concluded in Pescara, but finished second to France in the final medal tally. …

BALANCE BEAM FINAL
1. Vasiliki Millousi 14.725
2. Youna Dufournet 14.625
3. Elisabetta Preziosa 14.450

WOMEN’S FLOOR EXERCISE FINAL
1. Elisabetta Preziosa 14.175
2. Rose-Eliandre Bellemare 13.875
3. Emily Armi 13.825

MEN’S VAULT FINAL
1. Thomas Bouhail 16.462
2. Andrea Cingolani 15.775
3. Wajdi Bouallegue 15.462

PARALLEL BARS FINAL
1. Manuel Carballo 14.875
2. Danny Pinheiro 14.725
3. Rafael Martinez 14.675

HIGH BAR FINAL
1. Enrico Pozzo 15.400
2. Aljaz Pegan 15.000
3. Hamilton Sabot 14.875

read more on International Gymnast – French Finish on Top as Mediterranean Games End

Editor Rick McCharles will be hiking for a few days. Follow the Universiade on World Gymnastics and International Gymnast.

Tragic.

… A SIX-year-old Tasmanian boy has accidentally hanged himself after getting entangled in a clothes line while jumping on a trampoline.

Police said the boy was using a trampoline placed under a clothes line in the backyard of his New Norfolk home, north west of Hobart, about 11.30am today.

As he jumped, the strap of his bicycle helmet got caught on the nylon rope of the clothes line and tightened around his neck.

The clothes line appeared to have swung away from the trampoline, leaving the boy suspended and unable to free himself, police said.

Attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful and he died at the scene.

The Australian

Condolences to the family.

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… On July 1st I was at a big house party with a TERRIBLE backyard trampoline. Six or eight kids on it at a time. Yet I made no attempt to police it. Or “inform” the parents of the dangers.

If I was King of the World I would ban backyard trampolines. Since I’m not, I’ll have to bite my tongue every time I see one in a backyard.

I’m feeling rotten for Australia. Recall that a 19-yr-old Townsville tumbler died in June .